{"id":688916,"date":"2010-03-11T14:11:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T19:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=33438"},"modified":"2010-03-11T14:11:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T19:11:54","slug":"kansas-city-to-close-nearly-half-its-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/688916","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City to Close Nearly Half Its Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Holdridge<\/p>\n<p>From the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/11\/us\/11kansascity.html\">New York Times<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. &mdash; The Kansas City Board of Education voted Wednesday night to close almost half of the city&rsquo;s public schools, accepting a sweeping and contentious plan to shrink the system in the face of dwindling enrollment, budget cuts and a $50 million deficit.<\/p>\n<p>In a 5-to-4 vote, the members endorsed the Right-Size plan, proposed by the schools superintendent, John Covington, to close 28 of the city&rsquo;s 61 schools and cut 700 of 3,000 jobs, including those of 285 teachers. The closings are expected to save $50 million, erasing the deficit from the $300 million budget.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s your opinion on this news?&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Holdridge From the New York Times: KANSAS CITY, Mo. &mdash; The Kansas City Board of Education voted Wednesday night to close almost half of the city&rsquo;s public schools, accepting a sweeping and contentious plan to shrink the system in the face of dwindling enrollment, budget cuts and a $50 million deficit. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-688916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Tdy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688916","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\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}