{"id":48972,"date":"2015-03-23T00:40:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T00:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_teachers_in_rhode_island_city_sue_to_observe_good_friday\/"},"modified":"2015-03-23T00:40:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T00:40:06","slug":"ap_teachers_in_rhode_island_city_sue_to_observe_good_friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48972","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Teachers in Rhode Island City Sue to Observe Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers in Cranston, Rhode Island, have filed a lawsuit against the city&#8217;s school department after their requests to observe Good Friday were denied in a move they say violated their civil rights.<\/p>\n<p>About 200 teachers contacted the union to report that they were being prevented from taking the day off, although they had provided more than the contractually required 24 hours&#8217; notice, said Liz Larkin, president of the Cranston Teachers&#8217; Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>However, teachers&#8217; requests to observe the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah in the fall were approved, Larkin said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my big concern here, is equity,&#8221; Larkin said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/teachers-rhode-island-city-sue-observe-good-friday-29703199\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers in Cranston, Rhode Island, have filed a lawsuit against the city&#8217;s school department after their requests to observe Good Friday were denied in a move they say violated their civil rights. About 200 teachers contacted the union to report<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48972\">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":[50,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48972","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=48972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}