{"id":393998,"date":"2010-03-05T17:26:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T22:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/?p=6237"},"modified":"2010-03-05T17:26:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T22:26:30","slug":"insider-for-march-2-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/393998","title":{"rendered":"insider for March 2, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teacher and member of the Education Association of Fox Lake IEA\/NEA, is our latest winner of a $100 VISA gift card. \u00a0Congratulations to Joseph Fernandez! Enter to win a VISA gift card: <a href=\"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/newsroom\/insider\/insider-for-march-2-2010\/iealistens@ieanea.org\">Send us an e-mail <\/a>with VISA in the subject line &#8212; insider readers win valuable prizes all year long!<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe state&#8217;s budget crisis is causing pink slips being sent school employees statewide. Take a moment to let Gov. Quinn know what you&#8217;re going through, what students are facing and what kind of effect this crisis has on our state.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blip.tv\/file\/3264511\">This video<\/a> will walk you through the very simple process that actually gives you a voice in the process. \u00a0Please send your budget input to the governor today!<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThere is strength in numbers, so be among the thousands who will come to<a href=\"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/legislative\/lobby-day\/\"> IEA Lobby<\/a> Day on April 21. Let\u2019s make it impossible for legislators to ignore IEA members&#8217; collective voice. \u00a0More information here.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s Dr. Seuss&#8217; birthday!<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWhy not take a few minutes this week to celebrate reading in your classroom, your school or your community and encourage kids to become avid readers, strong thinkers and good &#8220;steerers&#8221; in life in honor of Dr. Seuss&#8217; birthday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSpringfield&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/video\/read-across-america-2010\/\">Feitshans Academy<\/a> celebrated Read Across America early this year, serving students in the Pre-K through fifth grade green eggs and ham for breakfast and inviting community members in to read to students.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/newsroom\/insider\/insider-for-march-2-2010\/iealistens@ieanea.org\">Let us know<\/a> how you commemorated Read Across America in your school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teacher and member of the Education Association of Fox Lake IEA\/NEA, is our latest winner of a $100 VISA gift card. \u00a0Congratulations to Joseph Fernandez! Enter to win a VISA gift card: Send us an e-mail with VISA in the subject line &#8212; insider readers win valuable prizes all year long! \u00a0 The state&#8217;s [&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-393998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393998","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=393998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}