{"id":4768,"date":"2025-11-07T16:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/news\/dont-fall-for-the-school-closure-temptation-by-rss-member-mara-casey-tieken-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:08:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:08:40","slug":"school-closure-temptation-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/news\/school-closure-temptation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"RSS Member Mara Casey Tieken Warns Against Temptation of Rural School Closure in Washington Monthly"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4768\" data-postid=\"4768\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4768 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_07d7001 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_k2cj001 first\">\n                    <!-- module fancy heading -->\n<div  class=\"module module-fancy-heading tb_jspu076 \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <h1 class=\"fancy-heading\">\n    <span class=\"main-head tf_block\">\n                    RSS Member Mara Casey Tieken  Warns Against Temptation of Rural School Closure in Washington Monthly            <\/span>\n\n    \n    <span class=\"sub-head tf_block tf_rel\">\n                                <\/span>\n    <\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module fancy heading -->\n<!-- Breadcrumbs module -->\n<div  class=\"module module-breadcrumbs tb_9ec4209 \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n\t<nav role=\"navigation\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\" class=\"tbp_breadcrumb_trail\"><ul class=\"tbp_trail_items\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/BreadcrumbList\"><meta name=\"numberOfItems\" content=\"1\" \/><meta name=\"itemListOrder\" content=\"Ascending\" \/><li itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ListItem\" class=\"tbp_trail_item tbp_trail_end\"><a itemprop=\"item\" href=\"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/\" rel=\"home\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Home<\/span><\/a><meta itemprop=\"position\" content=\"1\" \/><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div><!-- \/Breadcrumbs module -->\n<!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_ftoj202   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5014 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/School-buses-Coburn-PA-Penn-Valley-2018-11-03-5-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/School-buses-Coburn-PA-Penn-Valley-2018-11-03-5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/School-buses-Coburn-PA-Penn-Valley-2018-11-03-5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/School-buses-Coburn-PA-Penn-Valley-2018-11-03-5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/School-buses-Coburn-PA-Penn-Valley-2018-11-03-5-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/School-buses-Coburn-PA-Penn-Valley-2018-11-03-5-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/School-buses-Coburn-PA-Penn-Valley-2018-11-03-5-1024x768-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/School-buses-Coburn-PA-Penn-Valley-2018-11-03-5-1024x768-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/>This op-ed explains that school closures are on the rise, in rural and urban communities alike, and that they rarely save money and can hurt students and communities, especially Black communities. It argues for a slower, fairer approach to closure.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"671\" data-end=\"993\"><a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonmonthly.com\/2025\/10\/10\/dont-fall-for-the-school-closure-temptation\/\">\ud83d\udd17 Read the full article<\/a><br><br><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When enrollments decline, school boards often shutter schools, but this rarely saves money and always hurts kids and communities. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonmonthly.com\/2025\/10\/10\/dont-fall-for-the-school-closure-temptation\/\">\ud83d\udd17 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4699,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","news_announcements":[25,41],"class_list":["post-4768","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_announcements-member-in-the-news","news_announcements-youth-education-and-rural-vitality","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"ptb_metabox":[],"ptb_taxonomy":{"news_announcements":[{"term_id":25,"name":"Member in the News","slug":"member-in-the-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":25,"taxonomy":"news_announcements","description":"","parent":0,"count":45,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":41,"name":"Youth, Education, and Rural Vitality","slug":"youth-education-and-rural-vitality","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":41,"taxonomy":"news_announcements","description":"","parent":26,"count":4,"filter":"raw"}]},"ptb_featured_image":{"url":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/inside-old-high-school6-scaled-1.webp","title":"inside-old-high-school6-scaled","caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/4768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_announcements","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_announcements?post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}