{"id":733132,"date":"2010-05-25T16:31:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/?p=8086"},"modified":"2010-05-25T16:31:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:31:23","slug":"wednesday-is-national-call-in-day-to-save-educator-jobs-and-keep-students-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/733132","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday is National Call-In Day to save educator jobs and keep students learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/media\/SpeakUp1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8090\" title=\"SpeakUp1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/media\/SpeakUp1-231x300.jpg?resize=231%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Wednesday, May 26, NEA launches its National Speak Up for Education &amp; Kids Campaign \u2013 beginning with a National Call-in Day.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>TAKE ACTION:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Wednesday May 26th, call 1-866-608-6355 to contact your Representative in Congress.<\/li>\n<li>You will hear talking points and will be connected to the United States Capitol Switchboard \u2013 ask for your House Member.<\/li>\n<li>Tell your Representative that public education faces a budget catastrophe and that he\/she should support including funding to save education jobs in the emergency funding bill (known as the \u201cemergency supplemental\u201d funding bill).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With 300,000 education layoffs expected nationally (and up to 20,000 in Illinois alone), our students are the ones who will suffer \u2013 with overcrowded classrooms; shortened school days and weeks; and less individual attention and help from counselors, nurses, teachers, and support professionals. How can our students succeed with less time in the classroom, fewer instructors, and fewer supports?<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of your colleagues are receiving pink slips every day. Layoffs of this many educators will also drive the national unemployment rates up even more. This would be a disaster in states that are already cash-strapped and even more of a disaster for the students we serve.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationvotes.nea.org\/speakup\/\">Find out more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, May 26, NEA launches its National Speak Up for Education &amp; Kids Campaign \u2013 beginning with a National Call-in Day. TAKE ACTION: On Wednesday May 26th, call 1-866-608-6355 to contact your Representative in Congress. You will hear talking points and will be connected to the United States Capitol Switchboard \u2013 ask for your House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2642,"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-733132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34II","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733132","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\/2642"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}