{"id":7597,"date":"2018-08-03T14:20:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T18:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/08\/03\/in-praise-of-a-model-program\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:52:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:52:14","slug":"in-praise-of-a-model-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/in-praise-of-a-model-program\/","title":{"rendered":"In praise of a model program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s the model for improving public education in South Carolina? It already exists in the form of the S.C. Education Improvement Act (EIA), which was implemented in 1984 under then-Governor Richard W. Riley \u201954 and paved the way for positive changes that lasted well into the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century. Riley Institute Senior Fellow Terry Peterson, who was Riley\u2019s chief of staff during his time as Governor and U.S. Secretary of Education, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/article215967260.html\">wrote an op-ed for The State<\/a><\/strong> about why it\u2019s time to return to the basics of the EIA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s the model for improving public education in South Carolina? It already exists in the form of the S.C. Education Improvement Act (EIA), which was implemented in 1984 under then-Governor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597","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=7597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}