{"id":183,"date":"2002-07-07T08:31:54","date_gmt":"2002-07-07T08:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=183"},"modified":"2002-07-07T08:31:54","modified_gmt":"2002-07-07T08:31:54","slug":"the-houston-chronicle-carried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"The Houston Chronicle carried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Chronicle carried a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/story.hts\/editorial\/outlook\/1483933\">very interesting column<\/a> on why the SCOTUS voucher decision may have only a limited impact- suburban parents are generally opposed to any changes in the funding of &#8220;their&#8221; schools:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People in the suburbs are generally satisfied with their neighborhood schools. They want to protect the physical and financial independence of those schools, as well as suburban property values, which are tied to local school quality (real or perceived). School choice threatens the independence of suburban schools by creating the possibility that outsiders, particularly urban students, will enter them and that local funds will exit them.<\/p>\n<p>When suburbanites perceive a threat to their schools, they fight back &#8212; and usually win. Consider school desegregation and school finance reform. Suburban districts largely succeeded in insulating their schools from the reach of desegregation decrees, which rarely went beyond urban districts or required suburban schools to participate. Consequently, urban school districts were left to experience the costs and benefits of school desegregation, while most suburban schools remained safely on the sidelines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Chronicle carried a very interesting column on why the SCOTUS voucher decision may have only a limited impact- suburban parents are generally opposed to any changes in the funding of &#8220;their&#8221; schools: People in the suburbs are generally satisfied with their neighborhood schools. They want to protect the physical and financial independence of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}