{"id":749,"date":"2008-12-10T07:50:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T07:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2008\/12\/10\/kevin-chavous-78-promoting-better-schools\/"},"modified":"2008-12-10T07:50:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T07:50:44","slug":"kevin-chavous-78-promoting-better-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2008\/12\/10\/kevin-chavous-78-promoting-better-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Chavous &#039;78 &#8211; Promoting Better Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"top\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/indystar.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The efforts of <strong>Kevin Chavous<\/strong>, Wabash class of 1978, made the Indianapolis Star recently. Kevin&#8217;s been a strong advocate for better public schools and sees natural competition as one of the driving forces.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin was one of the pioneers bringing charter schools to the Washington, DC area and he hopes some of the lessons learned along the way will be helpful to President-elect Obama and his administration. For the full story, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2008812060369\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Many thanks to Kevin for his efforts and to Marilyn Smith for bringing the article to our attention.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The efforts of Kevin Chavous, Wabash class of 1978, made the Indianapolis Star recently. Kevin&#8217;s been a strong advocate for better public schools and sees natural competition as one of the driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}