{"id":4309,"date":"2016-03-23T14:43:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T14:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/21\/paul-thomas-weighs-in-on-school-takeovers\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:50:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:50:28","slug":"paul-thomas-weighs-in-on-school-takeovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/paul-thomas-weighs-in-on-school-takeovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Thomas weighs in on school takeovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTurnaround school district\u201d is the name given to schools where state charter initiatives are applied to salvage at-risk or low-performing schools. The moniker has all sorts of positive connotations\u2014180-degree change, an educational about-face, and school district overhaul are some thoughts that may come to mind. Furman University education professor Paul Thomas writes an opinion piece about South Carolina schools, and points to evidence that shows school takeovers may not be working as intended. Read more in the article \u201cBeware of \u2018Turnaround\u2019 School Districts\u201d he penned for <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20160315\/PC1002\/160319652\">The Post and Courier<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTurnaround school district\u201d is the name given to schools where state charter initiatives are applied to salvage at-risk or low-performing schools. The moniker has all sorts of positive connotations\u2014180-degree change, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":3945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education","category-in-the-news","category-sociology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309","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=4309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}