{"id":19197,"date":"2013-06-25T08:54:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T04:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=19197"},"modified":"2013-06-25T08:55:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T04:55:09","slug":"philadelphia-schools-hunger-strike-hits-8th-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=19197","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Schools Hunger Strike Hits 8th Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hunger-strike-in-philadelphia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-19194\" alt=\"hunger strike in philadelphia\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hunger-strike-in-philadelphia.jpg\" width=\"523\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hunger-strike-in-philadelphia.jpg 654w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hunger-strike-in-philadelphia-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hunger-strike-in-philadelphia-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/a>A hunger strike to protest massive layoffs in the Philadelphia school district is in its eighth day.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, dozens of music teachers slated to lose their jobs played a heartfelt farewell concert Monday at district headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Education advocates are doing everything they can to draw attention to the dire situation in the city&#8217;s public schools, which are facing a $304 million deficit.<\/p>\n<p>To cover the gap, the district has laid off 20 percent of its staff. More than 3,800 employees will be jobless next week, from assistant principals to secretaries.<\/p>\n<p>City and state officials have been furiously negotiating to fill the funding gap, but no promises have been made.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hunger strike to protest massive layoffs in the Philadelphia school district is in its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,143,137],"tags":[1506],"class_list":["post-19197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-usa","category-world","tag-philadelphia","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}