{"id":765,"date":"2009-05-19T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/19\/is-our-current-public-education-system-sustainable\/"},"modified":"2009-05-19T06:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T10:42:00","slug":"is-our-current-public-education-system-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/19\/is-our-current-public-education-system-sustainable\/","title":{"rendered":"Is our current public education system sustainable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a lively debate here on the In Box over teacher compensation.  What about the broader question: <\/p>\n<p>Is the current public education model sustainable, given declining support from Albany?  Can property taxpayers contribute more?<\/p>\n<p>If not, what should go?  Fewer teachers?  Fewer programs for special-needs kids?  Willsboro is cutting its music program &#8212; is that a good idea?<\/p>\n<p>How about consolidation?  The North Country&#8217;s &#8220;micro&#8221; districts &#8212; places like Newcomb, Westport and Keene Valley &#8212; offer great, intimate education value to their kids.<\/p>\n<p>But can they survive in the new New York economic climate?<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news.php#13566\">my conversation this morning<\/a> with Richard Iannuzzi, head of the teachers&#8217; union NYSUT, then share your thoughts below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a lively debate here on the In Box over teacher compensation. What about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}