{"id":6760,"date":"2009-07-03T09:42:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T17:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=6760"},"modified":"2009-07-03T09:42:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T17:42:56","slug":"la-teacher-cuts-prompt-walkouts-arrests-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/07\/la-teacher-cuts-prompt-walkouts-arrests-hunger-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Teacher Cuts Prompt Walkouts, Arrests, Hunger Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Notes:  <a href=\"http:\/\/labornotes.org\/node\/2328\">LA Teacher Cuts Prompt Walkouts, Arrests, Hunger Strike<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each year around budget time, Californians hear a familiar story from Sacramento: There\u2019s another stalemate, because state law caps property tax rates and requires two-thirds of legislators to approve tax hikes.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s inability to make budgets continues to mean less money for California public schools, which are funded at well below the national average, 46th in the nation in per-pupil spending. This time, Governor Schwarzenegger wants $10 billion in cuts from the state\u2019s $45 billion yearly education fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Notes: LA Teacher Cuts Prompt Walkouts, Arrests, Hunger Strike Each year around budget time, Californians hear a familiar story from Sacramento: There\u2019s another stalemate, because state law caps property tax rates and requires two-thirds of legislators to approve tax &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/07\/la-teacher-cuts-prompt-walkouts-arrests-hunger-strike\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2266],"tags":[4327,1288941,4326,1288951,2862,1288960,3502,4325],"class_list":["post-6760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protests","tag-arrests","tag-budgets-funding","tag-hunger-strike","tag-k-12-issues","tag-los-angeles","tag-strikes-labor-disputes","tag-utla","tag-walkouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6761,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions\/6761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}