{"id":2937,"date":"2010-02-09T10:52:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T18:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-chamber-of-commerce-supports-kent-schools-levy-proposals\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T14:55:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T21:55:34","slug":"kent-chamber-of-commerce-supports-kent-schools-levy-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/kent-chamber-of-commerce-supports-kent-schools-levy-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Chamber of Commerce supports Kent schools levy proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent Chamber of Commerce in January came out in support of both of the Kent School District\u2019s levy propositions for the Feb. 9 ballot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that investing in education is investing in our future as we train tomorrow\u2019s workforce and urge you to support the extension levy proposed by the Kent School District,\u201d wrote Executive Director Andrea Keikkala.<\/p>\n<p>Proposition 1 replaces the district\u2019s Maintenance and Operations levy, which accounts for 20 percent of the district\u2019s revenue and pays for nearly all extracurricular activities and athletics, as well as contributing to district transportation, supplies and class-size reduction.<\/p>\n<p>According to the district, the levy proposal was designed to keep tax rate level from the current levy through the proposed one.<\/p>\n<p>Proposition 2 is a replacement for the district\u2019s technology levy. The money would be used to maintain the district\u2019s technology programs, including the replacement of student and teacher computers as they become outdated.<\/p>\n<p>The election is an all mail-in election and ballots must be postmarked by Feb. 9, 2010. For more information about the levy visit www.ksdlevy.org. For more information on the chamber visit www.kentchamber.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent Chamber of Commerce in January came out in support of both of the Kent School District\u2019s levy propositions for the Feb. 9 ballot.<br \/>\n\u201cWe believe that investing in education is investing in our future as we train tomorrow\u2019s workforce and urge you to support the extension levy proposed by the Kent School District,\u201d wrote Executive Director Andrea Keikkala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937"}],"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=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}