{"id":394,"date":"2011-09-26T05:17:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T09:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=394"},"modified":"2011-09-26T05:17:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T09:17:49","slug":"obama-lets-states-opt-out-of-no-child-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/09\/obama-lets-states-opt-out-of-no-child-left-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama lets states opt out of No Child Left Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama unveiled the most significant changes to U.S. education policy in a decade, using his executive authority to give states more flexibility to opt out of some provisions of the controversial No Child Left Behind program that was a signature initiative of President George W. Bush.&#8221;We cant let another generation of young people fall behind,&#8221; Mr. Obama told an audience of education leaders in the East Room of the White House.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-20110710-503544.html\">Obama lets states opt out of No Child Left Behind &#8211; Political Hotsheet &#8211; CBS News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama unveiled the most significant changes to U.S. education policy in a decade, using his executive authority to give states more flexibility to opt out of some provisions of the controversial No Child Left Behind program that was a signature initiative of President George W. Bush.&#8221;We cant let another generation of young people fall&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,20],"tags":[237,183,236,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}