{"id":677,"date":"2006-03-02T16:03:55","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T00:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2006\/03\/grilling-for-spellings\/"},"modified":"2006-03-02T16:03:55","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T00:03:55","slug":"grilling-for-spellings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2006\/03\/grilling-for-spellings\/","title":{"rendered":"Grilling for Spellings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Inside Higher Ed<\/i>: <a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2006\/03\/02\/approps\">A grilling for Spellings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members of a U.S. Senate appropriations subcommittee took full advantage Wednesday of their first formal opportunity to respond to the Bush administration\u2019s proposed 2007 budget, peppering Education Secretary Margaret Spellings with probing questions.<\/p>\n<p>The budget calls for $54.4 billion in discretionary appropriations for the U.S. Department of Education in 2007, a decrease of $3.1 billion (or 5.5 percent) from the 2006 amount. Admitting \u201cit is a tough budget, no question,\u201d Spellings stoically defended the administration\u2019s proposals in the hearing before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: A grilling for Spellings Members of a U.S. Senate appropriations subcommittee took full advantage Wednesday of their first formal opportunity to respond to the Bush administration\u2019s proposed 2007 budget, peppering Education Secretary Margaret Spellings with probing questions. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2006\/03\/grilling-for-spellings\/\">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":[635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","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=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}