{"id":285421,"date":"2010-02-05T19:29:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T00:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0128776a6a57970c"},"modified":"2010-02-06T03:39:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T08:39:22","slug":"l-a-schools-chief-to-work-for-free-for-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/285421","title":{"rendered":"L.A. schools chief to work for free for a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>L.A. Unified Supt. Ramon C. Cortines has decided to go to work on Monday, a day he had originally planned to take off, although he will not\u00a0be paid.<\/p>\n<p>Cortines announced Thursday that he would take a furlough day to encourage others to do the same. The district is facing a deficit of up to $670 million, and officials have been urging union members to take four unpaid furlough days before June. If every L.A. Unified employee took four furlough days, the district could save an estimated $60 million.<\/p>\n<p>But Cortines decided he had too much work to do and will go to the office. He will not be paid for his time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Jason Song<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L.A. Unified Supt. Ramon C. Cortines has decided to go to work on Monday, a day he had originally planned to take off, although he will not\u00a0be paid. Cortines announced Thursday that he would take a furlough day to encourage others to do the same. The district is facing a deficit of up to $670 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}