ID ); $exclude_types = array( '' ); $exclude_types = apply_filters( 'eat_exclude_types', $exclude_types ); // do nothing if the post has already a featured image set if ( $already_has_thumb ) { return; } // do the job if the post is not from an excluded type if ( ! in_array( $post_type, $exclude_types ) ) { // get first attached image $img = rv_auto_featured_image_catch_that_image( $post ); $attachment_id = attachment_url_to_postid( $img ); if ( $attachment_id ) { // add attachment ID add_post_meta( $post->ID, '_thumbnail_id', $attachment_id, true ); } } } // set featured image before post is displayed (for old posts) add_action( 'the_post', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); // hooks added to set the thumbnail when publishing too add_action( 'new_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); add_action( 'draft_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); add_action( 'pending_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); add_action( 'future_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); function rv_auto_featured_image_catch_that_image( $post ) { // Find the images in the post_content. $output = preg_match_all( '//i', $post->post_content, $matches ); $first_img = isset( $matches[1][0] ) ? $matches[1][0]:''; // if no images found, do nothing if ( empty ( $first_img ) ) { return false; } return $first_img; } } ‘We Have a Spending Problem,’ Lawmakers Told at House Hearing on Struggling Public Schools – BCI 24 News Network
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‘We Have a Spending Problem,’ Lawmakers Told at House Hearing on Struggling Public Schools

26 February 2025 11:20 PM
BCI 24 News Network

WASHINGTON—Since 1950, the number of students in U.S. public schools has doubled, the number of teachers has more than tripled, and non-instructional staff has spiked by more than 700 percent.
And yet, the Heritage Foundation director for the Center for Education Policy told federal lawmakers that only 65 cents of every $1 in federal education spending reaches classrooms at a time when math and reading scores across the country continue to plummet.
“We don’t have a revenue problem; we have a spending problem,” Lindsey Burke said on Wednesday during the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies hearing on K–12 education finance. “It’s time to charter a new course.”…