{"id":307902,"date":"2010-02-11T14:59:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T19:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/?p=5801"},"modified":"2010-02-11T14:59:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T19:59:53","slug":"send-your-legislator-an-sos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/307902","title":{"rendered":"Send your legislator an SOS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5803\" title=\"SOSLogo2112011\" src=\"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/media\/SOSLogo2112011-580x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Illinois budget crisis has morphed into a school crisis and human services crisis.<\/strong> See<a href=\"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/featured\/state%E2%80%99s-failure-to-pay-fuels-crises\/\"> this report<\/a> citing financially strapped districts statewide\u00a0 or check <a href=\"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/blogs\/newswatch\/rifs-are-in-the-air-%E2%80%93-will-the-state-step-up\/\">this Blog <\/a>for a look at the politics of the budget.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It is imperative that the Illinois raise revenues to get the state out of debt and back on track,<\/strong> Failing to raise revenue means school employees being laid off, school programs and activities eliminated, bigger class sizes and much more.<\/p>\n<p>In short, <strong>we are facing a disaster.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Send your state senator and representative an email urging them to support HB 174 to Save Our Schools and Save Our State.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/capwiz.com\/nea\/il\/issues\/alert\/?alertid=13072256&amp;type=ST&amp;show_alert=1\">Click here to send the message!<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois budget crisis has morphed into a school crisis and human services crisis. See this report citing financially strapped districts statewide\u00a0 or check this Blog for a look at the politics of the budget. It is imperative that the Illinois raise revenues to get the state out of debt and back on track, Failing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307902","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\/4160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}