{"id":18561,"date":"2016-11-28T12:42:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T17:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18561"},"modified":"2016-11-28T14:23:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T19:23:15","slug":"another-assault-on-red-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18561","title":{"rendered":"Another Assault on Red Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jana Hollingsworth has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/4167503-teaching-requirements-threaten-college-schools-program\">another knowing article<\/a> about our local public education scene in today&#8217;s Trib. <\/p>\n<p>Its gist is this: By placing new demands on high school teachers who are teaching classes in public school to students that can earn college credit for such classes we are about to deny kids a lot of affordable credits they can apply to their college transcripts. In doing so we are putting college that much further out of reach for some kids&#8230;&#8230;..especially rural kids too far from colleges to take alternative PSEO classes while still in high school. <strong>Post Secondary Educational Options <\/strong>are similar except they are taught by college teachers on a college setting. Poor you if you live in East Pumpkin Corners sixty miles from the nearest college. You are effectively denied a chance to take such courses like a high school kid from a college town. <\/p>\n<p>This law is a boon to college teachers and colleges who want to keep that tuition money for themselves. There may be a legitimate accrediting issue when it comes to high school teachers teaching college classes but in my view it is greatly overblown. On the other hand, the teachers&#8217; unions which might go to bat for their members to teach in CITS classes have also been the chief enemies of leting<em> non licensed teachers<\/em> with advanced degrees in physics, chemistry and engineering a chance to teach in the public schools even when the nation runs short of such teachers.<\/p>\n<p>So much depends on whose ox is gored.<\/p>\n<p>The kids who will lose out pretty much fit into the red spaces on the map below that I found in <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotabrown.com\/2014\/11\/rick-nolan-undefeated.html\">Aaron Brown&#8217;s political blog<\/a>. The Red spaces denote folks who voted for Republican congressional candidate Mills. These voters feel left out of America&#8217;s current prosperity which is becoming increasingly urban. Depriving their children from earning pre-college college tuition is simply one more kick in the teeth to the rural landscape. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minnesotabrown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014-8CD-1024x866.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Its worth remembering that many of these folks voted for Barack Obama. I&#8217;m guessing that the folks so eager to impose fussy new requirements on rural schools are mostly fans of big government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jana Hollingsworth has written another knowing article about our local public education scene in today&#8217;s Trib. Its gist is this: By placing new demands&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18561"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18575,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18561\/revisions\/18575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}