{"id":2263,"date":"2011-03-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/kia-and-school-unification-in-troup-county-georgia-any-connection.html"},"modified":"2011-03-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T16:00:00","slug":"kia-and-school-unification-in-troup-county-georgia-any-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/kia-and-school-unification-in-troup-county-georgia-any-connection.html","title":{"rendered":"Kia and school unification in Troup County, Georgia: any connection?"},"content":{"rendered":"The only example in Georgia that\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/the-cuee-board-not-quite-all-city.html\">\nCUEE claimed<\/a> of good effects\nof school unification was Troup County, Georgia, where a few people\nare convinced that\nthe Kia plant\nwould not have come to town\nif the schools hadn&#8217;t unified.\nThat&#8217;s one county out of 159.\nAnd it&#8217;s hearsay anecdotal evidence.\nSo let&#8217;s look for any actual evidence.\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.troupcountyga.org\/kia.html\">\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"\nwidth=\"216\" height=\"154\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.troupcountyga.org\/images\/kia.jpg\"><\/a>\nThe county&#8217;s own\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.troupcountyga.org\/kia.html\">\nannouncement of the Kia plant opening<\/a>\nsays nothing about schools, much less unification.\nTroup County&#8217;s web page about their\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.troupcountyga.org\/GA Tech Documents\/Troup_Works_Overview_3_09.htm\">\nStrategic Plan for Sustainable Development<\/a>\ndoes mention education, but says nothing about school unification.\nTheir <a href=\"http:\/\/www.troupcountyga.org\/about_us_history.html\">\ncounty history page<\/a> mentions the Kia plant but nothing\nabout education being a factor, much less school unification.\n<p>\nEven if that anecdotal connection between school unification and\nthe Kia plant had some evidence behind it, that&#8217;s not an example of\nimproved education!\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The only example in Georgia that CUEE claimed of good effects of school unification was Troup County, Georgia, where a few people are convinced that the Kia plant would not have come to town if the schools hadn&#8217;t unified. That&#8217;s one county out of 159. And it&#8217;s hearsay anecdotal evidence. So let&#8217;s look for any [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1376,14,15],"tags":[8829,8705,8701,3710,7,2877,3669,1635],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cuee","category-economy","category-education","tag-cuee","tag-education","tag-georgia","tag-kia","tag-lowndes-county","tag-school","tag-troup-county","tag-unification"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-Av","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}