{"id":1414,"date":"2011-03-31T17:02:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T22:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakeramitchell.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2011-03-31T17:02:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T22:02:43","slug":"nccat-nice-but-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/31\/nccat-nice-but-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"NCCAT: Nice but Necessary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/nc-budget-education-237.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For 2010-2011, NCCAT is costing nearly $7,000,000 for its 95 employees and to operate its two resorts.\u00a0 The New Bern resort\u00a0accomodates about 23\u00a0people and the\u00a0mountain resort holds about 45.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cNCCAT holds programming in two of North Carolina\u2019s most beautiful locations, providing inspiring instruction from the mountains to the sea.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nccat.org\/s\/1099\/start.aspx\">http:\/\/www.nccat.org\/s\/1099\/start.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nccat.org\/s\/1099\/images\/ImageLibrary\/c10a1d58-7e64-4731-ab5b-fd0dedd44574.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"NCCAT Budget \" src=\"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/nc-budget-education-237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"781\" height=\"867\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Inspiring 4-day seminars such as:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oral History: Capturing North Carolina\u2019s Diverse Heritage<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>The Power of Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reading and Writing by the Sea <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nccat.org\/s\/1099\/index.aspx?sid=1099&amp;gid=1&amp;pgid=288\">http:\/\/www.nccat.org\/s\/1099\/index.aspx?sid=1099&amp;gid=1&amp;pgid=288<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have over 100,000 teachers in NC, but these facilities can accomodate only a few thousand each year for their 4-day and weekend seminars.<\/p>\n<p>For $7M a year, we can pay for\u00a0about 200 full-time classroom teachers serving nearly 4,000 children.<\/p>\n<p>Is NCCAT the best use of taxpayer money?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 2010-2011, NCCAT is costing nearly $7,000,000 for its 95 employees and to operate its two resorts.\u00a0 The New Bern resort\u00a0accomodates about 23\u00a0people and the\u00a0mountain resort holds about 45. \u201cNCCAT holds programming in two of North Carolina\u2019s most beautiful locations, providing inspiring instruction from the mountains to the sea.\u201d http:\/\/www.nccat.org\/s\/1099\/start.aspx Inspiring 4-day seminars such as: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-k-12","category-politics-nc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}