{"id":5117,"date":"2005-06-17T06:07:47","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T06:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2005-06-17T06:07:47","modified_gmt":"2005-06-17T06:07:47","slug":"your-tax-dollars-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5117","title":{"rendered":"YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why does a Texas school district feel it needs to spend $30,000 to bring in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaoa.com\/news\/nw061505a.htm\">outside speaker<\/a> for its convocation?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> ECISD finalized an agreement in May with Dr. Benjamin Carson, a world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, who is a director at John  Hopkins Hospital. His biography includes an inspiring story of how Carson went from the streets to the operating room.  Carson is listed with the Washington Speakers Bureau and listed in the grade-5 speaker\u2019s fee category, which lists speakers\u2019 fees between $25,000 and $40,000.  Mike Adkins, ECISD public information officer, said Carson came recommended to the district.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  I don&#8217;t care how good he is, it will not make a damn bit of difference in single classroom.  Ahhh, what the heck, it&#8217;s only 30 grand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does a Texas school district feel it needs to spend $30,000 to bring in an outside speaker for its convocation? ECISD finalized an agreement in May with Dr. Benjamin Carson, a world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, who is a director at John Hopkins Hospital. His biography includes an inspiring story of how Carson went from the [&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\/5117"}],"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=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}