{"id":15269,"date":"2017-04-10T18:56:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T03:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/?p=15269"},"modified":"2017-04-10T18:56:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T03:56:25","slug":"make-your-voice-heard-on-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/make-your-voice-heard-on-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Your Voice Heard on Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">The Alaska legislature is working hard to resolve the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fiscal crisis. There are no easy answers, but the $69M cut to base education funding currently introduced as part of the Senate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s operating bill is of concern for our public school community. This 5% cut is on top of the already planned loss of 120 Anchorage School District positions, which was based on flat funding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What does this mean at Steller? Less educational offerings for our students.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What can you do about it? Make your voice heard. The most effective route would be writing to all of the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legislators. Here is a link:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/akleg.gov\/docs\/pdf\/whoswho.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/akleg.gov\/docs\/pdf\/whoswho.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1491969006951000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHVWxKO1SD_2JTv1igQYtr1xbHuCg\">https:\/\/akleg.gov\/docs\/<wbr>pdf\/whoswho.pdf<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\nFor up-to-date information, follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Great-Alaska-Schools-Anchorage-463614410406133\/\" target=\"_blank\">Great Alaska Schools Anchorage<\/a>. Our own Steller parent Alyse Surratt Galvin is busy advocating for Alaska public schools in Juneau right now and updates the feed regularly.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alaska legislature is working hard to resolve the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fiscal crisis. There are no easy answers, but the $69M cut to base education funding currently introduced as part of the Senate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s operating bill is of concern for our public school community. This 5% cut is on top of the already planned loss of 120 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}