{"id":3581,"date":"2015-03-09T19:40:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T23:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/conservatives-and-public-education-reform\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:33:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:33:26","slug":"conservatives-and-public-education-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/conservatives-and-public-education-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives and public education reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/brent-nelsen-mug-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16870 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/brent-nelsen-mug-2.jpg\" alt=\"brent-nelsen-mug\" width=\"158\" height=\"243\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 158px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 158\/243;\" \/><\/a>Support for small government, free markets, fiscal responsibility and strong local communities defines conservatism. Conservatives emphasize the importance of individual freedom, but also recognize the need to check human passion using the traditional pillars of civilization: law, government, religion and education. Conservatives increasingly see the need for reform in South Carolina\u2019s public education system, but they have allowed liberals to monopolize the public education conversation, promoting private and home school options while leaving the debate over public schools to less conservative voices. In an op-ed for <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2015\/03\/06\/conservatives-public-school-reform\/24504367\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Furman political science reporter Brent Nelsen says this not only does this lead to bad policy, it is also bad politics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support for small government, free markets, fiscal responsibility and strong local communities defines conservatism. Conservatives emphasize the importance of individual freedom, but also recognize the need to check human passion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581","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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}