{"id":137908,"date":"2019-02-22T17:08:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T00:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/let-them-eat-grade-books.html"},"modified":"2019-02-25T19:59:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T02:59:57","slug":"let-them-eat-grade-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/let-them-eat-grade-books.html","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Eat Grade Books!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Arkansas state legislator is fed up with schools that don&#39;t improve their reading scores.<\/p>\n<p>His solution: cut lunch funding from schools that don&#39;t perform well.<\/p>\n<p>Guess which party he&#39;s in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/wtkr.com\/2019\/02\/21\/arkansas-legislator-proposes-cutting-lunch-funding-from-schools-that-struggle-to-improve-reading-skills\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/-pnqzum7QprLRruK2GWpwHa1M9eWvkaBYp3gybOj2Ao18ZdHFAq_sbb3XteZWP8qxkBuBW19tW3IWDPFkDkLUzwGeSX21tjy8GMK4ylS4lrjXnEd15Yh7ySQ-L2Jbw=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/wtkr.com\/2019\/02\/21\/arkansas-legislator-proposes-cutting-lunch-funding-from-schools-that-struggle-to-improve-reading-skills\/'>Arkansas legislator proposes cutting lunch funding from schools that struggle to improve reading skills<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nOne Arkansas lawmaker wants to get more students reading by putting money on the line&mdash;specifically, their lunch money.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/7GPyqxwY2WS'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Arkansas state legislator is fed up with schools that don&#39;t improve their reading scores. His solution: cut lunch funding from schools that don&#39;t perform well. Guess which party he&#39;s in. Arkansas legislator proposes cutting lunch funding from schools that struggle to improve reading skills One Arkansas lawmaker wants to get more students reading by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/let-them-eat-grade-books.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let Them Eat Grade Books!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,358,46,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-poor-citizenship","category-school-daze","category-taxing-spending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33250,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/18\/the-sf-curriculum.html","url_meta":{"origin":137908,"position":0},"title":"The SF Curriculum","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Apr-13 8:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"In general I tend to be suspicious of legislators pushing their own agendas on school curricula. \u00a0But, damn, I would have loved to have had more SF in my junior and senior high English classes. 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