{"id":359390,"date":"2010-03-01T18:05:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T23:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/?p=6049"},"modified":"2010-03-01T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T23:05:13","slug":"make-your-voice-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/359390","title":{"rendered":"Make your voice heard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, Gov. Pat Quinn has <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.illinois.gov\/budget\/Pages\/default.aspx\">posted the state&#8217;s budget online<\/a> and is looking for public comment.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6055\" title=\"megaphone\" src=\"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/media\/megaphone-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is imperative that IEA members let the Governor and state legislators know how the state&#8217;s budget crisis is impacting their local districts.<\/p>\n<p>Share your personal stories: Ways the budget crunch is affecting your district, the students in it, you and your family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/video\/instructions-for-submitting-comments-to-governor\/\">Please join Jim Reed as he walks you through the process <\/a>of filing comments on the Governor&#8217;s site.\u00a0<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">After watching the video, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.illinois.gov\/budget\/Pages\/Suggest.aspx\">go to the governor&#8217;s Website <\/a>and tell him what the children of Illinois and the whole state will lose if we fail to invest in education and fail to support the agencies that help Illinois&#8217; children, our sick and our elderly.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very important that your voice be heard. And, if you want it to be heard even louder, join thousands of your fellow IEA members at <a href=\"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/featured\/lobby-day-2010\/\">Lobby Day on April 21<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, Gov. Pat Quinn has posted the state&#8217;s budget online and is looking for public comment. It is imperative that IEA members let the Governor and state legislators know how the state&#8217;s budget crisis is impacting their local districts. Share your personal stories: Ways the budget crunch is affecting your district, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359390","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\/4159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}