{"id":588,"date":"2016-02-11T18:22:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/dr-thomas-publishes-op-ed-in-greenville-news\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T21:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T02:42:31","slug":"dr-thomas-publishes-op-ed-in-greenville-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/dr-thomas-publishes-op-ed-in-greenville-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Thomas publishes op-ed in Greenville News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2985\" style=\"width: 148px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/paul-thomas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2985\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2985 lazyload\" title=\"paul-thomas\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/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-2985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Paul Thomas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In an op-ed for <em>The Greenville News<\/em> on May 20, education professor Paul Thomas writes that South Carolina should avoid investing time in and allocating tax dollars to charter schools, particularly when those commitments detract from addressing known problems in the public schools.\u00a0 Otherwise, the state remains committed to contradictory policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed for\u00a0<em>The Greenville News <\/em>on May 20, education professor Paul Thomas writes that South Carolina should avoid investing time in and allocating tax dollars to charter schools, particularly when those commitments detract from addressing known problems in the public schools.\u00a0 Otherwise, the state remains committed to contradictory policies.<\/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-588","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\/588","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=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35819,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/35819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}