{"id":361,"date":"2012-03-29T08:28:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T15:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/?p=361"},"modified":"2012-03-29T08:28:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T15:28:25","slug":"want-to-express-your-concern-about-the-us-federal-government-leadership-in-educational-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/2012\/03\/29\/want-to-express-your-concern-about-the-us-federal-government-leadership-in-educational-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to express your concern about the US federal government &#8220;leadership&#8221; in educational reform?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the petition at <a href=\"http:\/\/dumpduncan.org\/\">dumpduncan.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the website:<br \/>\n&#8220;The future of public schools is in jeopardy. Private interests, aided by the Federal Government, are attempting to supplant local control and to transfer public funding to the hands of corporate interests. Public schools, locally controlled, are a cornerstone of our democracy. Relegating them to corporate-owned test prep factories places our nation at risk and steals our children\u2019s future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The petition currently has 4300+ signatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the petition at dumpduncan.org From the website: &#8220;The future of public schools is in jeopardy. Private interests, aided by the Federal Government, are attempting to supplant local control and to transfer public funding to the hands of corporate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/2012\/03\/29\/want-to-express-your-concern-about-the-us-federal-government-leadership-in-educational-reform\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2262,2266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-k-12-issues","category-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}