{"id":1787,"date":"2006-11-17T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T17:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/look_on_the_bright_side_--_that_overcrowding_is_a_good_sign.html"},"modified":"2006-11-17T09:43:23","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T17:43:23","slug":"look_on_the_bri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/look_on_the_bri.html","title":{"rendered":"Look On The Bright Side &#8212; That Overcrowding Is A Good Sign!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/472260p-397350c.html\">one way to spin it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>One of the reasons city schools are overcrowded is because they&#8217;re getting better, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>While announcing the first of a series of bond deals to finance his five-year, $4.7 billion school construction plan, the mayor said his efforts to give kids more space is &#8220;being exacerbated by the fact that our schools are getting better and parents are more inclined to stay in the city as their children get older.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the past, a lot of [parents] thought that our public schools weren&#8217;t of sufficient quality for them to maintain residence here. More and more, today, they believe that the 80,000 teachers that work in our school system are doing a spectacular job and that they want to send their children to the public school system and they want to stay here.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that&#8217;s one way to spin it: One of the reasons city schools are overcrowded is because they&#8217;re getting better, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. While announcing the first of a series of bond deals to finance his five-year, $4.7 billion school construction plan, the mayor said his efforts to give kids more space is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}