{"id":695,"date":"2004-09-30T22:28:40","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T03:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/09\/30\/695\/"},"modified":"2008-01-06T15:08:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T20:08:24","slug":"695","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/09\/30\/695\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky is entering about Year 18 of an ever-cascading educational disaster.  The current horrible mistake is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enquirer.com\/editions\/2004\/09\/28\/loc_loc1akyteach.html\" title=\"From a Cincinnati newspaper, but Cincinnati counts as Kentucky anymore.\">proposed health plan<\/a> for teachers, which (under a typical family plan) would have employees pay the highest state-insurance premium in the country, with the state making the next-to-lowest contribution.  The idea was that a 3% raise would help cover the cost, but that means $1050 before taxes for the average teacher.  The premiums alone for that family health plan would exhaust that in two months.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been half-following the story as it develops, because I went to a Kentucky public high school and I&#8217;m interested by the state&#8217;s boundless inventiveness as it races to achieve the worst school quality in the country (right behind you, Alabama!).  There will very likely be a statewide (and illegal) educator strike on October 27th.  Tonight I saw some TV news coverage of a teachers&#8217; union protest at Waterfront Park; after a couple of crowd shots, they pulled in close on one woman, who held a posterboard sign stating that<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p>KENTUCKY IS<br \/>\nBECOMING<br \/>\nEMBARRASING!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some truths are self-evident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky is entering about Year 18 of an ever-cascading educational disaster. The current horrible mistake is the proposed health plan for teachers, which (under a typical family plan) would have employees pay the highest state-insurance premium in the country, with the state making the next-to-lowest contribution. The idea was that a 3% raise would help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kentucky","category-typos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}