{"id":199,"date":"2011-07-21T16:25:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T20:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=199"},"modified":"2011-07-21T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T20:25:18","slug":"teachers-worry-lack-of-confidence-threatens-pinellas-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/07\/21\/teachers-worry-lack-of-confidence-threatens-pinellas-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers Worry &#8220;Lack of Confidence&#8221; Threatens Pinellas Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pinellas County teachers are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/education\/k12\/pinellas-teachers-union-head-worried-about-next-years-tax-referendum\/1181680\">worried<\/a> about next year&#8217;s vote to renew a $30 million tax increase for salaries, arts, music and technology.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very concerned,&#8221; union president Kim Black told the <em>St. Petersburg Times<\/em> editorial board.<\/p>\n<p>Black  noted the anti-tax mood, then added: &#8220;When all of this turmoil is  happening \u2014 whether it&#8217;s the budget, negotiations (between the district  and the union), the issues with the superintendent \u2014 all of those things  create a lack of confidence, I believe, in the public school system.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinellas County teachers are worried about next year&#8217;s vote to renew a $30 million tax increase for salaries, arts, music and technology. &#8220;I&#8217;m very concerned,&#8221; union president Kim Black told the St. Petersburg Times editorial board. Black noted the anti-tax mood, then added: &#8220;When all of this turmoil is happening \u2014 whether it&#8217;s the budget, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1036,1029,1015],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}