{"id":331677,"date":"2010-02-17T15:26:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T20:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/?p=5941"},"modified":"2010-02-17T15:26:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T20:26:33","slug":"thousands-rally-for-a-responsible-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/331677","title":{"rendered":"Thousands rally for a responsible budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Illinoisans flooded the Statehouse Rotunda Wednesday with a single message &#8220;We can&#8217;t wait for a responsible budget&#8221; in a rally sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abetterillinois.com\/\">Responsible Budget Coalition<\/a>.\u00a0 IEA is a coalition member.\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-5953\" title=\"DSC00145\" src=\"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/media\/DSC001452-580x326.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The throng heard from more than a dozen speakers who called on the General Assembly to face up to the revenue problems that are forcing cuts in state services for children, the sick and the elderly and causing schools statewide to threaten thousands of employees with layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Many people spoke about their concerns with the state&#8217;s lack of funding, or fears that their programs might be cut next year.<a href=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/3233299\"> See a brief video here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ieanea.blip.tv\/file\/3232720\/\">See a video of President Swanson&#8217;s comments.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IEA members are urged to contact their state legislators and urge them to support HB 174, legislation that would preserve education quality and save jobs for public education employees statewide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capwiz.com\/nea\/il\/issues\/alert\/?alertid=13072256&amp;type=ST&amp;show_alert=1\">Send a message to your legislator now.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next big event for IEA members will be<a href=\"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/featured\/lobby-day-2010\/\"> Lobby Day, April 21st.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Illinoisans flooded the Statehouse Rotunda Wednesday with a single message &#8220;We can&#8217;t wait for a responsible budget&#8221; in a rally sponsored by the Responsible Budget Coalition.\u00a0 IEA is a coalition member.\u00a0 The throng heard from more than a dozen speakers who called on the General Assembly to face up to the revenue problems [&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-331677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331677","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=331677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}