{"id":1289,"date":"2004-11-12T11:57:54","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T16:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/2004_tennessee_report_card\/"},"modified":"2004-11-12T11:57:54","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T16:57:54","slug":"2004_tennessee_report_card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/2004_tennessee_report_card\/","title":{"rendered":"2004 Tennessee Report Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tennessean<\/i> has the 2004 Tennessee Report Card<\/a> on public schools.
\nA few interesting factoids<\/a>:<\/p>\n

–Nearly half of the state’s 911,735 public school students live at or below the federal poverty line. The percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced-price meals has gone up in recent years and hit 49.9% last year.
\n–About 55% of all core academic classes are currently being taught by a ”highly qualified” teacher, a detail added to the Report Cards this year. That’s a licensed teacher with a bachelor’s degree and expertise in the subject he or she teaches. All core classes \ufffd which include English, science, math, foreign language, social studies and the arts \ufffd must be taught by highly qualified teachers by the end of the 2005-06 year.
\n–State and local dollars made up nearly 89% of school budgets last year. Of that amount, the state paid slightly more than 45%. The remaining amount came from the federal government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It doesn’t reflect too well on your state when half the public school students live below the poverty line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tennessean has the 2004 Tennessee Report Card on public schools. A few interesting factoids: –Nearly half of the state’s 911,735 public school students live at or below the federal poverty line. The percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced-price meals has gone up in recent years and hit 49.9% last year. –About […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}