{"id":103909,"date":"2016-04-24T21:04:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T21:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/24\/pursuitofnerdiness-greencarnations-npr\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T11:03:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T11:03:25","slug":"pursuitofnerdiness-greencarnations-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/24\/pursuitofnerdiness-greencarnations-npr\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-103909 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/24\/pursuitofnerdiness-greencarnations-npr\/attachment\/103910\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5vwscgMH01qdkv8qo1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5vwscgMH01qdkv8qo1_1280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5vwscgMH01qdkv8qo1_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/24\/pursuitofnerdiness-greencarnations-npr\/attachment\/103911\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5vwscgMH01qdkv8qo2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5vwscgMH01qdkv8qo2_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5vwscgMH01qdkv8qo2_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/24\/pursuitofnerdiness-greencarnations-npr\/tiffany-anderson-right-superintendent-of-the-jennings-school-district-in-north-st-louis-county-mo-performs-crosswalk-duty-every-morning-to-save-the-district-money\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5vwscgMH01qdkv8qo3_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-103912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5vwscgMH01qdkv8qo3_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5vwscgMH01qdkv8qo3_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-103912'>\n\t\t\t\tTiffany Anderson (right), superintendent of the Jennings School District in north St. Louis County, Mo., performs crosswalk duty every morning to save the district money.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/pursuitofnerdiness.tumblr.com\/post\/143201016482\" target=\"_blank\">pursuitofnerdiness<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/greencarnations.tumblr.com\/post\/143197830430\" target=\"_blank\">greencarnations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/npr.tumblr.com\/post\/143178739431\" target=\"_blank\">npr<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Let\u2019s begin with a choice.<\/p>\n<p>Say there\u2019s a check in the mail. It\u2019s meant to help you run your household. You can use it to keep the lights on, the water running and food on the table. Would you rather that check be for $9,794 or $28,639?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a trick question. It\u2019s the story of America\u2019s schools in two numbers.<\/p>\n<p>That $9,794 is how much money the Chicago Ridge School District in Illinois spent per child in 2013 (the number has been adjusted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/media\/school-finance-education-week-quality-counts-2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Education Week<\/a> to account for regional cost differences). It\u2019s well below that year\u2019s national average of $11,841.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/04\/18\/474256366\/why-americas-schools-have-a-money-problem?utm_source=tumblr.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_content=20160419\" target=\"_blank\">Why America\u2019s Schools Have A Money Problem<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><i>Map: Alyson Hurt and Katie Park\/NPR<br \/>Illustration: LA Johnson\/NPR<br \/>Photo:\u00a0Tim Lloyd\/St. Louis Public Radio<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The TL;DR is that it\u2019s because of the way local school funding is tied to local taxes and only local taxes.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever want to spend some time gettin REAL mad, ponder on this for a while: if you\u2019re a child in this country, your education is funded based off local taxes, mostly property taxes. The value of you and your education is directly tied to the value of your family\u2019s house.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More people need to know this! I had this realization in college and it turned me from a little libertarian shit into a baby progressive.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pursuitofnerdiness: greencarnations: npr: Let\u2019s begin with a choice. Say there\u2019s a check in the mail. It\u2019s meant to help you run your household. You can use it to keep the lights on, the water running and food on the table. Would you rather that check be for $9,794 or $28,639? It\u2019s not a trick question. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/24\/pursuitofnerdiness-greencarnations-npr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[12851,12853,12852,12849,12848,12850,2257,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103913,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103909\/revisions\/103913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}