{"id":333,"date":"2012-02-04T17:28:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T01:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=333"},"modified":"2012-02-04T17:28:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T01:28:41","slug":"schools-should-pick-best-teachers-not-vice-versa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/02\/04\/schools-should-pick-best-teachers-not-vice-versa\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools Should Pick Best Teachers, Not Vice Versa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Chronicle<br \/>\nJanuary 24, 2012<br \/>\nWritten by Chip Johnson<\/p>\n<figure  id=\"attachment_334\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/02\/Child_teacher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-334\" title=\"Child_teacher\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/02\/Child_teacher-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huffington Post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Oakland Unified School District wants to end the practice of allowing senior teachers to cherry-pick their work assignments.<br \/>\nUnder the current rules, teachers with the most seniority get first choice of schools and classrooms &#8211; it&#8217;s a practice that&#8217;s customary throughout the U.S. public school system.<br \/>\nBut Oakland school district officials say the decades-old practice does not always result in the best matches of students, teachers and communities.<\/p>\n<div>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2012\/01\/23\/BANS1MTDN1.DTL#ixzz1lN8x6AIm\">http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2012\/01\/23\/BANS1MTDN1.DTL#ixzz1lN8x6AIm<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Chronicle January 24, 2012 Written by Chip Johnson The Oakland Unified School District wants to end the practice of allowing senior teachers to cherry-pick their work assignments. Under the current rules, teachers with the most seniority get first choice of schools and classrooms &#8211; it&#8217;s a practice that&#8217;s customary throughout the U.S. public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/02\/04\/schools-should-pick-best-teachers-not-vice-versa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Schools Should Pick Best Teachers, Not Vice Versa<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_local_ag","category-kqed_research_ag"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}