{"id":17042,"date":"2025-07-24T18:58:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17042"},"modified":"2025-07-24T18:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:59:21","slug":"parents-flee-madison-schools-for-good-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17042","title":{"rendered":"Parents flee Madison schools for good reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/07\/24\/parents-flee-madison-schools-for-good-reason\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/07\/24\/parents-flee-madison-schools-for-good-reason\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They want their kids to learn &amp; be safe! Chris Rickert, the best journalist working MadTown, reports that the population here in Madison WI has mushroomed 31.3% in the last 20 years while enrollment in its public schools edged up an anemic 2.9%. Wassup with that?\u00a0 Demographics plays a role, he reports. All those high-rise [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/07\/24\/parents-flee-madison-schools-for-good-reason\/ They want their kids to learn &amp; be safe!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":11779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dave-blaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17043,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17042\/revisions\/17043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}