{"id":19509,"date":"2010-04-21T16:17:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T23:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/budget-crisis-kent-teachers-plan-protest-tonight-at-school-board-meeting\/"},"modified":"2010-04-21T16:17:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T23:17:05","slug":"budget-crisis-kent-teachers-plan-protest-tonight-at-school-board-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/budget-crisis-kent-teachers-plan-protest-tonight-at-school-board-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget crisis: Kent teachers plan protest tonight at School Board meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent teachers will protest what their union leadership is calling &#8220;the false choice district administrators are presenting to School Board members&#8221; regarding the Kent School District budget.<\/p>\n<p>The gathering is scheduled for 6:20-6:55 p.m. at the Kent School District administration building, 12033 S.E. 256 St.<\/p>\n<p>The protest is timed to take place shortly before the 7 p.m. meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The School Board is scheduled tonight to take action on some hard choices &#8211; how to shore up what at this time appears to be a $9 million hole in next year&#8217;s school budget, according to district officials.<\/p>\n<p>The Kent Education Association, which is the teachers&#8217; union, is claiming the district is &#8220;looking for a strategy to shift the deepest cuts onto school teachers and impoverished parents while the district continues to sit on its well-padded $22 million savings account.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kent school finance officials claim otherwise, stating it is irresponsible to dig into district savings for one-time fixes, to fund programs that will need a continued source of funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent teachers will protest what their union leadership is calling &#8220;the false choice district administrators are presenting to School Board members&#8221; regarding the Kent School District budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19509"}],"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=19509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19509"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}