{"id":2256,"date":"2011-03-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/after-kia-still-school-problems-in-troup-county-no-mention-of-kia.html"},"modified":"2011-03-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T16:00:00","slug":"after-kia-still-school-problems-in-troup-county-no-mention-of-kia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/after-kia-still-school-problems-in-troup-county-no-mention-of-kia.html","title":{"rendered":"After Kia: still school problems in Troup County; no mention of unification"},"content":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s keep looking for\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/kia-and-school-unification-in-troup-county-georgia-any-connection.html\">\nevidence of any connection of school unification\nin Troup County, Georgia, to the Kia plant,<\/a>\neven though\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiatrend.com\/our-state\/08_08_troup_co.shtml\">\nCUEE didn&#8217;t present any.<\/a>\nIt&#8217;s rather odd that none of the locals seem to have mentioned\nany such connection in the numerous articles published about the Kia plant.\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2010-03-24-boomtown_N.htm\">\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"\nwidth=\"236\" height=\"120\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/i.usatoday.net\/news\/_photos\/2010\/03\/24\/boomtown-mayorx-topper-medium.jpg\"><\/a>\nHere&#8217;s\nan interview with Mayor Drew Ferguson IV of West Point, Georgia\nby Larry Copeland in USA TODAY, 25 March 2010,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2010-03-24-boomtown_N.htm\">\nKia breathes life into old Georgia textile mill town.<\/a>\nNope, no mention of schools, education, or unification.\nNice picture of the mayor with a Kia, though.\n<p>\nKaren Kennedy published\na lengthy article about the Kia plant\nin GeorgiaTrend in August 2008,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiatrend.com\/our-state\/08_08_troup_co.shtml\">\nLaGrange\/Troupe County: The Kia Effect<\/a>,\nin which the first mention of schools is for the period <em>after<\/em>\nthe Kia plant opened:\n<blockquote>\nThe biggest need Mayor Ferg-uson sees in West Point right now is public\neducation. &#8220;We have a wonderful elementary school.&#8221; But there is\nno middle or high school in the city limits. &#8220;The current formula for\neducation funding is not working,&#8221; he says of the state\u2019s approach,\nwhich bases money on students who are already in the system, not on\nstudents who will be coming through the system in the near future. &#8220;If\nyou don\u2019t have great education opportunities people will live far away\nand drive [to work]. Schools should be looked at as an economic driver.&#8221;\nThey are a way to help recruit good strong families to an area, he adds.\n<\/blockquote>\nThat&#8217;s right, <em>after<\/em> the Kia plant, there are big problems\nwith the schools, and there&#8217;s not even any mention of unification.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s keep looking for evidence of any connection of school unification in Troup County, Georgia, to the Kia plant, even though CUEE didn&#8217;t present any. It&#8217;s rather odd that none of the locals seem to have mentioned any such connection in the numerous articles published about the Kia plant. 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