{"id":3871,"date":"2011-08-04T22:55:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T03:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2011-08-04T22:58:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T03:58:30","slug":"children-per-employee-doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3871","title":{"rendered":"Children per employee, Doh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got along for a week with <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3851\">this blog post<\/a> before someone pointed out my mistake. (<em>I went back just now to correct it on the original post<\/em>)  This is what I should have written:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Illinois Dr. Foster had 3,200 students divided by 415 staff or <strong>7.7 children per public employees.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Duluth Dr. Foster has 9,000 students divided by 2,000 staff or <strong>4.5 children per public employee.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a bit of a discrepancy here. I wonder at the implications. Did the Trib editorial Board notice?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what I wrote: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;7.7 public employees per child&#8221; and &#8220;4.5 public employee per child.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The math, despite the flawed labeling, is correct. The question remains. With so many more employees per child why are our class sizes so out of whack?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got along for a week with this blog post before someone pointed out my mistake. (I went back just now to correct it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}