{"id":14880,"date":"2014-12-03T01:20:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T01:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-a-wealthy-california-town-makes-sure-no-poor\/"},"modified":"2014-12-03T01:20:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T01:20:02","slug":"how-a-wealthy-california-town-makes-sure-no-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-a-wealthy-california-town-makes-sure-no-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Wealthy California Town Makes Sure No Poor Kids Attend Its &#8216;Public&#8217; School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/education\/robert-reich-how-wealthy-california-town-makes-sure-no-poor-kids-attend-its-public-school'>How a Wealthy California Town Makes Sure No Poor Kids Attend Its &#8216;Public&#8217; School<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Orinda\u2019s schools are among the best in California \u2013 public schools that glean extra revenues from a local parcel tax (that required a two-thirds vote to pass) and parental contributions to the Educational Foundation of Orinda which \u201csuggests\u201d donations of $600 per child.<\/p>\n<p>Orinda doesn\u2019t want to pay for any kids who don\u2019t belong there. Harold Frieman, Orinda\u2019s district attorney, says the district has to be \u201cpreserving the resources of the district for all the students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Which is why it spends some of its scarce dollars on private detectives to root out children like Vivian.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger story is this. Education is no longer just a gateway into the American middle class. Getting a better education than almost everyone else is the gateway into the American elite.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a Wealthy California Town Makes Sure No Poor Kids Attend Its &#8216;Public&#8217; School Orinda\u2019s schools are among the best in California \u2013 public schools that glean extra revenues from a local parcel tax (that required a two-thirds vote to pass) and parental contributions to the Educational Foundation of Orinda which \u201csuggests\u201d donations of $600 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3S0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}