{"id":15821,"date":"2015-01-28T13:33:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T21:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/sullivan-bill-would-aid-after-school-programs\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T02:45:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T09:45:27","slug":"sullivan-bill-would-aid-after-school-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/sullivan-bill-would-aid-after-school-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sullivan bill would aid after-school programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>House Majority Leader Pat Sullivan (D-Covington) introduced a bill Wednesday in Olympia to help bring additional education opportunities to under-served areas and students.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>HB 1795 would give more flexibility to the process that allows schools to use a portion of Learning Assistance Program (LAP) money to contract with community organizations to provide after-school and summer education programs. It would also require that parents be involved in the service provided.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Currently, the Superintendent of Public Instruction\u2019s office must approve such contracts. Sullivan\u2019s bill would also streamline the process by eliminating that extra step. The bill specifies reporting requirements to OSPI to ensure the money is being used efficiently.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u201cLocal school officials know best how to use discretionary funds to educate their students,\u201d Sullivan said in a media release. \u201cMy bill would require the funds be used on services that reflect the needs of each specific community.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>For example, Sullivan said \u201csummer learning loss\u201d \u2013 when students forget some of what they learned the school year before \u2013 can be reduced by summer school programs, thereby reducing the \u201copportunity gap\u201d that occurs in many communities.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Majority Leader Pat Sullivan (D-Covington) introduced a bill Wednesday in Olympia to help bring additional education opportunities to under-served areas and students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":15822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15821"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}