{"id":478171,"date":"2010-03-26T17:17:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T21:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.senatedem.ilga.gov\/index.php\/sen-meeks-home\/897-school-vouchers-legislation-passes-senate-chamber"},"modified":"2010-03-26T17:17:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T21:17:19","slug":"school-vouchers-legislation-passes-senate-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/478171","title":{"rendered":"School Vouchers Legislation Passes Senate Chamber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.senatedem.ilga.gov\/images\/stories\/2010\/meeks-032510br0155-032610.jpg\" \/>Legislation that could affect thousands of students in the lowest performing elementary schools in the City of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1><br \/>\n<st1:city><br \/>\n<st1:place>Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> passed the Illinois Senate this week.&nbsp; The measure, sponsored by Senator James Meeks (D-Chicago), would offer private-school vouchers to children in<br \/>\n<st1:city><br \/>\n<st1:place>Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s 49 lowest performing schools \u2013 10 percent of the schools in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Bill 2494 could serve as a tentative model for future development in<br \/>\n<st1:state><br \/>\n<st1:place>Illinois<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>\u2019 educational system.&nbsp; If passed, the pilot program would begin in the 2011-2012.&nbsp; In 2014, the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) would evaluate the program and report their findings to the General Assembly. Families would be able to apply for vouchers from ISBE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation that could affect thousands of students in the lowest performing elementary schools in the City of Chicago passed the Illinois Senate this week.&nbsp; The measure, sponsored by Senator James Meeks (D-Chicago), would offer private-school vouchers to children in Chicago\u2019s 49 lowest performing schools \u2013 10 percent of the schools in the city. Senate Bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6473,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478171","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\/6473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}