{"id":4605,"date":"2009-03-26T09:28:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T14:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4605"},"modified":"2009-03-26T09:28:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T14:28:31","slug":"the_kanye_west_of_municipal_executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/the_kanye_west_of_municipal_executives.html","title":{"rendered":"The Kanye West Of Municipal Executives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Mayor, we don&#8217;t mind looking the other way while your Department of Education cooks the books on test scores because ultimately we don&#8217;t necessarily care that there isn&#8217;t a large difference in results &#8212; we only care that school boards are lame and mayoral control makes more sense.  That, however, does not give you latitude to come up with ludicrous claims like you have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/03262009\/news\/regionalnews\/controlled_praise_161389.htm\">&#8220;changed public education as we know it&#8221;<\/a> like you&#8217;re Bill Clinton circa 1996 and this is welfare or something because that&#8217;s when we check out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday that under his administration, the city has &#8220;changed public education as we know it&#8221; &#8212; and predicted a deal will be reached with state lawmakers to renew mayoral control of the schools.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Mayor, we don&#8217;t mind looking the other way while your Department of Education cooks the books on test scores because ultimately we don&#8217;t necessarily care that there isn&#8217;t a large difference in results &#8212; we only care that school boards are lame and mayoral control makes more sense. That, however, does not give you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-please_make_it_stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605","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=4605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4606,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions\/4606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}