{"id":17609,"date":"2013-03-25T13:56:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T17:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=17609"},"modified":"2013-03-26T07:59:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T11:59:42","slug":"house-speaker-will-weatherford-pushes-non-traditional-education-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/03\/25\/house-speaker-will-weatherford-pushes-non-traditional-education-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"House Speaker Will Weatherford Pushes Non-Traditional Education Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford isn&#8217;t shy about pushing his non-traditional agenda for public education.<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/03\/25\/house-speaker-will-weatherford-pushes-non-traditional-education-agenda\/willweatherford-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17611\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17611\" title=\"WillWeatherford\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/03\/WillWeatherford1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s based on his own life experience.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s in favor of options that are growing in popularity, like virtual classes and charter schools.<\/p>\n<p>StateImpact reporter Gina Jordan sat down with Weatherford in his office to talk about his educational roots. He tells us why he supports legislation like the<a title=\"parent-trigger bill\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/parent-trigger\/\"> parent trigger bill<\/a> and whether he thinks teachers will get raises next year.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-17609-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/03\/WeatherfordProfile0325.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/03\/WeatherfordProfile0325.mp3\">https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/03\/WeatherfordProfile0325.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford isn&#8217;t shy about pushing his non-traditional agenda for public education. It&#8217;s based on his own life experience. He&#8217;s in favor of options that are growing in popularity, like virtual classes and charter schools. StateImpact reporter Gina Jordan sat down with Weatherford in his office to talk about his educational roots. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1036,798,1109,1079,769],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17653,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17609\/revisions\/17653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}