{"id":40965,"date":"2013-11-09T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/south_carolina_schools_see_best_report_card_ratings_graduation_rates_since_\/"},"modified":"2013-11-09T19:00:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T19:00:02","slug":"south_carolina_schools_see_best_report_card_ratings_graduation_rates_since_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40965","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina schools see best report card ratings, graduation rates since 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chalk it up to South Carolina notching its best on-time graduation rate ever and higher test scores in most subjects and grades.<\/p>\n<p>Report cards for South Carolina&#8217;s schools and districts look better this year than they have since 2009, which was the first year it gave the PASS test to third- through eighth-graders.<\/p>\n<p>Neil Robinson, chairman of the state Education Oversight Committee, called the 2.6 percentage point jump in the state&#8217;s graduation rate to 77.5 percent \u201cphenomenal,\u201d\u009d and he pointed to the majority of schools statewide that were rated \u201cgood\u201d\u009d or \u201cexcellent\u201d\u009d as a sea change compared with when that figure hovered at 32 percent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20131108\/PC16\/131109467\/1006\/south-carolina-schools-fare-well-on-report-cards\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chalk it up to South Carolina notching its best on-time graduation rate ever and higher test scores in most subjects and grades. Report cards for South Carolina&#8217;s schools and districts look better this year than they have since 2009, which<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40965\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,54,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}