{"id":22775,"date":"2023-01-31T08:35:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T13:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=22775"},"modified":"2023-01-31T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T16:59:36","slug":"new-playbook-offers-strategies-for-legislative-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/new-playbook-offers-strategies-for-legislative-success\/","title":{"rendered":"New playbook offers strategies for legislative success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22814 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/01\/A-Peoples-Movement-Cover-300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 251px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 251\/300;\" \/>A new book produced by The Riley Institute at Furman University and W. Robert Saffold gets a ringing endorsement from Andy Brack, editor and publisher of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statehousereport.com\/2023\/01\/27\/brack-new-playbook-offers-strategies-for-legislative-success\/\">Statehouse Report<\/a>. &#8220;A People\u2019s Movement&#8221; tells the story of how Furman alumnus and former Gov. Richard W. Riley and a coalition of state and local leaders pushed through a penny tax for educational improvement during his second term in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Brack highlights many of the &#8220;plays&#8221; Riley employed to help move South Carolina out of generational underachievement in public education &#8211; strategies that can be applied to any legislative initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book by The Riley Institute and W. Robert Saffold describes how a team of state and local leaders mobilized the grassroots and transformed public education. Andy Brack of Statehouse Report gives a glowing review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,6,29,1713],"tags":[1834,1835,1833],"class_list":["post-22775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-riley-institute","category-statehouse-report","tag-education-reform","tag-sec-dick-riley","tag-state-legislature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}