{"id":2288,"date":"2010-10-01T13:12:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2010-10-01T13:12:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:12:22","slug":"american_education_and_what_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2288","title":{"rendered":"American Education And What It Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These two graphs are copied from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2010\/09\/027347.php\">Power Line<\/a>&nbsp;Blog on September 30.&nbsp; The conclusion is obvious.&nbsp; As enrollment is remaining relatively stable, the cost of school employees is skyrocketing.&nbsp; As the spending per student increases, test scores remain stagnant.&nbsp; The United States Department of Education officially began operating in May of 1980.&nbsp; Judging from the graphs below, it really does not look as if putting education in the hands of the federal government has been helpful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 20px; DISPLAY: block\" class=\"mt-image-center\" alt=\"Coulson-Cato-employment.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/Coulson-Cato-employment-thumb-500x332.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 20px; DISPLAY: block\" class=\"mt-image-center\" alt=\"coulson-achievement-21.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/coulson-achievement-21-thumb-500x368.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two graphs are copied from Power Line&nbsp;Blog on September 30.&nbsp; The conclusion is obvious.&nbsp; As enrollment is remaining relatively stable, the cost of school employees is skyrocketing.&nbsp; As the spending per student increases, test scores remain stagnant.&nbsp; The United &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2288\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}