{"id":343377,"date":"2018-01-12T01:27:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T00:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-americas-schools-profoundly-unequal-study\/"},"modified":"2018-01-12T01:27:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T00:27:13","slug":"presstv-americas-schools-profoundly-unequal-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-americas-schools-profoundly-unequal-study\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-America&#8217;s schools \u2018profoundly unequal\u2019: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>America&#8217;s schools are \u201cprofoundly unequal,\u201d with low-income, minority students ending up in schools with crumbling walls, old textbooks and unqualified teachers, according to a new report by the US government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US Commission on Civil Rights released the report on Thursday, urging Congress to take \u201cbold action\u201d to address inequitable funding in the country\u2019s public school system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the United States Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that public education is a right that should be available to all on equal terms, the longstanding and persistent reality is that vast funding inequities in our state public education systems render the education available to millions of American public school students profoundly unequal,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This report excavates the enduring truism that American public schooling is, and has been, profoundly unequal in the opportunity delivered to students, the dollars spent to educate students,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/01\/12\/548622\/US-schools-profoundly-unequal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s schools are \u201cprofoundly unequal,\u201d with low-income, minority students ending up in schools with crumbling walls, old textbooks and unqualified teachers, according to a new report by the US government. The US Commission on Civil Rights released the report on Thursday, urging Congress to take \u201cbold action\u201d to address inequitable funding in the country\u2019s public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-343377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}