{"id":24081,"date":"2017-03-11T13:31:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T18:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24081"},"modified":"2017-03-11T13:31:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T18:31:54","slug":"why-wont-hedge-funders-confess-their-role-in-multi-million-dollar-lobbying-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/03\/11\/why-wont-hedge-funders-confess-their-role-in-multi-million-dollar-lobbying-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Won\u2019t Hedge Funders Confess Their Role in Multi-Million-Dollar Lobbying Campaign?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hedge Clippers<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/hedgeclippers.org\/hedgepapers-no-16-hedge-fund-billions-boost-cuomos-privatization-push\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Won\u2019t Hedge Funders Confess Their Role in Multi-Million-Dollar Lobbying Campaign?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAccording to Moody\u2019s, charter growth can cripple the credit ratings of urban school districts, leading to increased borrowing costs and declining public school enrollments.<\/p>\n<p>This stress, largely due to district\u2019s inability to reduce operation costs in response to declining enrollment, can touch off a \u201cdeath spiral\u201d where district costs increase, leading to an increase in charter enrollments.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of the anti-liberal Democrats I know who are so horrified about 45 being the President are also backers of the charter school movement.  Makes me wonder what they are thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hedge Clippers has the article Why Won\u2019t Hedge Funders Confess Their Role in Multi-Million-Dollar Lobbying Campaign? According to Moody\u2019s, charter growth can cripple the credit ratings of urban school districts, leading to increased borrowing costs and declining public school enrollments. This stress, largely due to district\u2019s inability to reduce operation costs in response to declining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24082,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24081\/revisions\/24082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}