{"id":666918,"date":"2010-02-16T16:50:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T21:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22350"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:39:30","slug":"utah-eyes-slashing-senior-year-of-high-school-to-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/666918","title":{"rendered":"Utah Eyes Slashing Senior Year Of High School To Save Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Chris-Buttars-220x300.jpg?resize=176%2C240\" alt=\"Chris Buttars\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22404\" height=\"240\" width=\"176\" \/>By Sahil Kapur for <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/2010\/02\/save-money-utah-plans-slash-senior-year-high-school\/\">Raw Story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Imagine being forced to skip your senior year of high school. Or having the option.<\/p>\n<p>If you live in Utah, that could become a reality. In an effort to bridge a $700 million budget shortfall, Republican state Sen. Chris Buttars has put forth a plan to eliminate 12th grade in high school, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nation-and-world\/la-na-utah-school15-2010feb15,0,906102.story\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Facing a wealth of criticism from parents, teachers and students alike, Buttars defended a scaled down version of the idea wherein students simply had the option to exit before their final year, claiming the proposal could save the state about $60 million&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[continues at <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/2010\/02\/save-money-utah-plans-slash-senior-year-high-school\/\">Raw Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sahil Kapur for Raw Story: Imagine being forced to skip your senior year of high school. Or having the option. If you live in Utah, that could become a reality. In an effort to bridge a $700 million budget shortfall, Republican state Sen. Chris Buttars has put forth a plan to eliminate 12th grade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NuK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767701,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666918\/revisions\/767701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}