{"id":2193,"date":"2006-02-27T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/funding-our-prison-education-system\/"},"modified":"2006-02-27T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T18:58:00","slug":"funding-our-prison-education-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/funding-our-prison-education-system\/","title":{"rendered":"funding our prison education system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and by prison education system,  i&#8217;m not talking about educating convicted criminals.  i&#8217;m talking about locking up our children.<\/p>\n<p>ars technica has a short piece,  <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20060224-6259.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>$370, 000 from the united states department of justice to install biometric access control in an elementary school in new jersey.<\/p>\n<p>ars compares that to hiring someone to sit at the door&#8230; i&#8217;m going to go a bit deeper.  the function of a school is education, so let&#8217;s go that direction.<\/p>\n<p>according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aft.org\/salary\/2004\/download\/releases\/SalarySurvey-NJ.pdf\" class=\"broken_link\">this report<\/a> [pdf], the average teacher salary in new jersey was $53,663 for the 2003-2004 school year.  so that&#8217;s 6.89 teachers for the cost of a front door for a school (and i don&#8217;t know if that even includes the door&#8230;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and by prison education system, i&#8217;m not talking about educating convicted criminals. i&#8217;m talking about locking up our children. ars technica has a short piece, here. $370, 000 from the united states department of justice to install biometric access control in an elementary school in new jersey. ars compares that to hiring someone to sit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}