{"id":8366,"date":"2011-04-14T11:10:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T19:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8366"},"modified":"2011-04-14T11:10:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T19:10:37","slug":"crowd-lambastes-detroit-school-closure-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2011\/04\/crowd-lambastes-detroit-school-closure-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowd lambastes Detroit school closure plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/article\/20110413\/SCHOOLS\/104130367\/1026\/Crowd-lambastes-Detroit-school-closure-plan\">Crowd lambastes Detroit school closure plan<\/a><br \/>\n&#8216;These schools mean the world to us,&#8217; says one irate speaker<\/p>\n<p>Detroit\u2014 During a contentious meeting interrupted by chants and catcalls Tuesday, students, parents and teachers lambasted a plan to close 14 Detroit schools and convert 45 others to charter schools.<\/p>\n<p>The irate crowd of 300 also objected to the meeting itself, including a one-minute limit on speakers and the announcement that school officials planned only to listen to audience comments and not respond to them.<\/p>\n<p>From The Detroit News: http:\/\/detnews.com\/article\/20110413\/SCHOOLS\/104130367\/Crowd-lambastes-Detroit-school-closure-plan#ixzz1JWgYQUdU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit News: Crowd lambastes Detroit school closure plan &#8216;These schools mean the world to us,&#8217; says one irate speaker Detroit\u2014 During a contentious meeting interrupted by chants and catcalls Tuesday, students, parents and teachers lambasted a plan to close &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2011\/04\/crowd-lambastes-detroit-school-closure-plan\/\">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":[2251,2262],"tags":[1288941,2586,1288951,1288954,1398],"class_list":["post-8366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budgets-funding","category-k-12-issues","tag-budgets-funding","tag-detroit","tag-k-12-issues","tag-protests","tag-school-closures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366","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=8366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8368,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions\/8368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}