{"id":12566,"date":"2009-05-01T14:31:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T14:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cash_strapped_schools_cancel_field_trips\/"},"modified":"2009-05-01T14:31:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T14:31:36","slug":"cash_strapped_schools_cancel_field_trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12566","title":{"rendered":"Cash-strapped schools cancel field trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, field trips have linked core subjects to destinations outside the classroom. Now they are being met with increased scrutiny nationwide as public schools deal with budget shortfalls.<\/p>\n<p>The Maize School District in a suburb of Wichita, suspended field trips in February for the remainder of the year, says Karen McDermott, a school spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p>The action was in response to a midyear cut by the state Legislature, and though it will save $30,000, it means students learning about the universe won&#8217;t see it unfold at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/education\/2009-04-29-field-trips_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, field trips have linked core subjects to destinations outside the classroom. Now they are being met with increased scrutiny nationwide as public schools deal with budget shortfalls. The Maize School District in a suburb of Wichita, suspended field<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12566\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,149,111,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-education","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}