{"id":48863,"date":"2016-01-22T07:30:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T14:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=48863"},"modified":"2016-01-21T14:36:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T21:36:14","slug":"detroit-teachers-launch-massive-protests-over-crumbling-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2016\/01\/22\/detroit-teachers-launch-massive-protests-over-crumbling-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Teachers Launch Massive Protests Over Crumbling Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601502.us.archive.org\/15\/items\/uprising_2016_01_22\/Kevin_Kumashiro_2016_01_22.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601502.us.archive.org\/15\/items\/uprising_2016_01_22\/uprising_2016_01_22.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Kevin Kumashiro<\/strong>, dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco, and author of numerous books, including\u00a0Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Obama is visiting Detroit for an auto-show this week. But he will be getting more than just an eyeful of car parts. Teachers from the struggling city&#8217;s public school system are planning a major protest. Most of them have called in sick prompting the shut down of schools. And it&#8217;s not the first time they&#8217;ve organized a &#8220;sick-out.&#8221; Detroit&#8217;s schools are struggling so badly that teachers can&#8217;t bear to go on. They&#8217;ve launched a social media campaign, tweeting ghastly photos of dilapidated schools showing bullet holes in walls and even indoor fungus infestations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Kevin Kumashiro, dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco, and author of numerous books, including\u00a0Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture. President Obama is visiting Detroit for an auto-show this week. But he will be getting more than just an eyeful of car parts. Teachers from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48864,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48863\/revisions\/48864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}