{"id":3074,"date":"2010-11-30T00:02:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T05:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/framingham.com\/news\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2010-11-30T00:20:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T05:20:28","slug":"save-our-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2010\/11\/30\/schools-education\/save-our-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Framingham Save Our Schools Petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3089\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Framingham-Save-Our-Schools-Website.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3089\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3089\" title=\"Framingham Save Our Schools website\" src=\"http:\/\/framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Framingham-Save-Our-Schools-Website-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"Framingham Save Our Schools website\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Framingham-Save-Our-Schools-Website-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Framingham-Save-Our-Schools-Website-175x105.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Framingham-Save-Our-Schools-Website.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new website has been put up with Framingham School Department budget info, and links to an online petition to &quot;Save Our Schools&quot;.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> - Herb Chasan, Framingham Precinct 4 Town Meeting Member, <em>(and local home improvement contractor),<\/em> is sending out an <strong><em>S.O.S<\/em> <\/strong>-- a \"<em><strong>S<\/strong>ave<strong> O<\/strong>ur<strong> S<\/strong>chools<\/em>\" message.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Chasan, registered a domain name and put together a website, <a title=\"Framingham - Save Our Schools - Level Funding Budget Petition Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.framinghamsaveourschools.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.FraminghamSaveOurSchools.org<\/a> which provides info about recent school budget cuts and prompts visitors to sign and online petition.<\/p>\n<p>The site contains materials listing what the past four years of reduced funding and the latest $6 million dollars in cuts have done to Framingham schools.<\/p>\n<p>While newspapers and talk on the street decry elimination of\u00a0 <em><strong>elementary school music<\/strong><\/em>, or <em><strong>cuts in school bus transportation<\/strong><\/em> -- many don't realize the number of education and support positions <em>(and programs) <\/em>that were also cut back or eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>The website is linked to the online service <em>www.ePetitions.com<\/em> to allow residents to <em>sign <\/em>the online petition, which in-part asks Framingham Board of Selectmen to act according to, \"<em>..our desire for level service funding  of future school budgets and search for sources of additional revenue and cost savings to support this goal.<\/em>\"<\/p>\n<p>Whichever side of the Framingham School Department budget debate you're on -- it's worth checking out <a title=\"Framingham - Save Our Schools - Level Funding Budget Petition Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.framinghamsaveourschools.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.FraminghamSaveOurSchools.org<\/a><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8211; Herb Chasan, Framingham Precinct 4 Town Meeting Member, (and local home improvement contractor), is sending out an S.O.S &#8212; a &#8220;Save Our Schools&#8221; message. In September, Chasan, registered a domain name and put together a website, www.FraminghamSaveOurSchools.org which provides info about recent school budget cuts and prompts visitors to sign and online petition. The&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2010\/11\/30\/schools-education\/save-our-schools\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,17],"tags":[192,1404,236,1405,1402,1403],"class_list":["post-3074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-schools-education","tag-framingham-schools","tag-herb-chasan","tag-petition","tag-save-our-schools","tag-school-budget","tag-school-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3092,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions\/3092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}