{"id":473282,"date":"2010-03-25T16:19:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T20:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef01310fde2f8a970c"},"modified":"2010-03-25T16:38:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T20:38:05","slug":"students-at-worst-chicago-public-schools-could-get-vouchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/473282","title":{"rendered":"Students at worst Chicago Public Schools could get vouchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Michelle Manchir<\/em> at 3:20 p.m.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>SPRINGFIELD &#8212; The Illinois Senate today approved legislation creating a small-scale voucher program that would provide money for 22,000 students at the worst-performing Chicago Public Schools to attend private schools.<\/p>\n<p>The students would get a voucher equivalent to the minimum amount of money the state requires districts to spend on each child. The vouchers would be part of a test program and could be used toward expenses at any private school in Chicago that is willing to participate in the program.\n<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, sponsored by Sen. James Meeks, D-Chicago, passed 33-20 with 3 present votes.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mike Jacobs, D-East Moline, argued the bill doesn&#8217;t go far enough to correct the root problems in education. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Maybe the problem starts at home,&quot; Jacobs said. &quot;Are there vouchers so that we can replace the parents who aren&#8217;t doing a good job?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The House now will consider the legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Michelle Manchir at 3:20 p.m. SPRINGFIELD &#8212; The Illinois Senate today approved legislation creating a small-scale voucher program that would provide money for 22,000 students at the worst-performing Chicago Public Schools to attend private schools. The students would get a voucher equivalent to the minimum amount of money the state requires districts to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473282","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\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}