{"id":4008,"date":"2015-09-08T20:11:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T20:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/paul-thomas-opines-about-school-choice\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:48:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:48:55","slug":"paul-thomas-opines-about-school-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/paul-thomas-opines-about-school-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Thomas opines about school choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/paul-thomas2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12276 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/paul-thomas2-medium.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/235;\" \/><\/a>Furman education professor Paul Thomas says Charleston and New Orleans share \u201ccomplicated profiles\u201d in terms of natural disasters and man-made racism and generational poverty. He says like New Orleans, \u201c &#8230; the lessons of education and education reform in Charleston are two-fold: \u2026traditional public schools have failed\/do fail vulnerable populations, \u2026 and accountability-based and free-market education reform has also not alleviated the burdens of racism and poverty, but too often has exacerbated the devastating consequences of both.\u201d Read more in an opinion piece he wrote for <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20150905\/PC1002\/150909562\/1023\/choice-lessons-for-charleston-public-schools\">The Post and Courier<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman education professor Paul Thomas says Charleston and New Orleans share \u201ccomplicated profiles\u201d in terms of natural disasters and man-made racism and generational poverty. He says like New Orleans, \u201c [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":14770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008","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=4008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}