{"id":727,"date":"2005-07-13T06:23:17","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T13:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2005\/07\/selling_the_schools\/"},"modified":"2005-07-13T06:23:17","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T13:23:17","slug":"selling_the_schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/selling_the_schools.php","title":{"rendered":"Selling the schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More evidence that our public\/private balancing act is a little out of whack comes from surburban Detroit, where a school district has decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/adage.com\/news.cms?newsId=45460\">sell naming rights<\/a> to its buildings &#8212; including a new elementary school &#8212; to plug its faltering budget.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pccs.k12.mi.us\/\">Plymouth-Canton<\/a> school board voted in June to consider naming rights, faced with drooping federal, state, and local support. But according to Susan Linn, co-founder of the Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood, the potential revenues from the idea aren&#8217;t worth the cost:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\n\u201cWhat this issue is, first of all, is the way we have abandoned public space and the notion of the public good&#8230;.People don\u2019t see the cost, and the cost is our values and the values we are passing onto children.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a struggle that cultural nonprofits are more than familiar with, although our struggle is a bit less incendiary. Philanthropists and corporations have become an essential part of the revenue mix, and naming rights are an important lure for their cash.<\/p>\n<p>We certainly can&#8217;t ignore the revenue opportunity &#8212; in our cultural facilities or in other public endeavors. But somewhere in here is a useful conversation about financing and funding public goods, and the waning role of the &#8216;public&#8217; in that effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More evidence that our public\/private balancing act is a little out of whack comes from surburban Detroit, where a school district has decided to sell naming rights to its buildings &#8212; including a new elementary school &#8212; to plug its faltering budget. The Plymouth-Canton school board voted in June to consider naming rights, faced with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}