{"id":7975,"date":"2007-09-16T11:02:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T15:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7975"},"modified":"2007-09-16T11:02:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T15:02:59","slug":"buzzy-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7975","title":{"rendered":"BUZZY MATH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Scripps National Spelling Bee folks want to charge every school (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/wsj\/home\/local\/index.php?ntid=244731&#038;ntpid=2\">including homeschool associations<\/a>) in the country $99 for the right to send one of their kids to the first round of competition.  They claim that they&#8217;re operating at a deficit in the &#8220;hundreds of thousands of dollars.&#8221;  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/64.233.169.104\/search?q=cache:C190FdVczxsJ:www.givekidsgoodschools.org\/site\/c.llKUL5MUIwG\/b.1886271\/k.3030\/FAQs_about_Public_Schools_in_the_US.htm+how+many+public+schools+are+there+in+the+US&#038;hl=en&#038;ct=clnk&#038;cd=1&#038;gl=us&#038;client=firefox-a\">this site<\/a>, there are approximately 100,000 K-12 schools.  Figure at least 80% of them are K-8, the ages for the bee.  80,000 at $99 each raises a cool $8M.  It seems the not-for-profit Scripps Foundation might be planning on turning a tidy (non) profit this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scripps National Spelling Bee folks want to charge every school (including homeschool associations) in the country $99 for the right to send one of their kids to the first round of competition. They claim that they&#8217;re operating at a deficit in the &#8220;hundreds of thousands of dollars.&#8221; According to this site, there are approximately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}