{"id":479,"date":"2016-02-11T18:22:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/professor-thomas-writes-about-charter-schools\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:35:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:35:12","slug":"professor-thomas-writes-about-charter-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/professor-thomas-writes-about-charter-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Thomas writes about charter schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2463\" style=\"width: 148px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/paul-thomas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2463\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2463 lazyload\" title=\"paul-thomas\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/paul-thomas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"200\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 138px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 138\/200;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Paul Thomas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In an op-ed for <em>The State<\/em> newspaper in Columbia, Furman education professor Paul Thomas asks this question: \u00a0\u201cWhat are we to make of proposals to increase resources allocated to charter schools, and in effect, divert resources away from traditional public schools?\u201d\u00a0 His piece, \u201cCharter Schools Aren\u2019t the Right Answer,\u201d ran in the April 6 issue of the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2012\/04\/06\/2222711\/thomas-charter-schools-arent-the.html\">Read the article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed for\u00a0<em>The State<\/em> newspaper in Columbia, Furman education professor Paul Thomas asks this question: \u00a0\u201cWhat are we to make of proposals to increase resources allocated to charter schools, and in effect, divert resources away from traditional public schools?\u201d\u00a0 His piece, \u201cCharter Schools Aren\u2019t the Right Answer,\u201d ran in the April 6 issue of the newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/479","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=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}