{"id":2167,"date":"2011-10-14T16:15:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T20:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2011-10-14T16:15:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T20:15:48","slug":"white-house-says-orange-county-schools-need-proposed-jobs-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/14\/white-house-says-orange-county-schools-need-proposed-jobs-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Says Orange County Schools Need Proposed Jobs Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1344\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"President Barack Obama unveils his jobs plan Monday at the White House.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/124741845.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1344\" title=\"Obama Introduces American Jobs Act At White House Rose Garden\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/124741845-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/124741845-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/124741845-220x149.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/124741845.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Alex Wong \/ Getty News Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Barack Obama unveils his jobs plan last month at the White House.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Orange County is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\">White House<\/a> poster child for the school renovation money tucked into president Barack Obama&#8217;s jobs bill.<\/p>\n<p>A White House press release points<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgcs.org\/newsroom\/Facilities_Report_Release.pdf\"> to a report<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgcs.org\/\">Council on Great City Schools<\/a> outlining urban school districts&#8217; infrastructure needs.<\/p>\n<p>The White House notes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocps.net\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Orange County schools <\/a>would receive $169.6 million to repair and modernize schools and another $13.2 million to pay for deferred maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would send a total of <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/09\/12\/obama-jobs-plan-includes-3-billion-for-florida-teachers-schools\/\">$3 billion<\/a> to Florida, supporting an estimated 16,600 jobs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cOur children only get one shot at a good education,&#8221; Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a press release. &#8220;They deserve better than crumbling school buildings and half-century-old science labs&#8230;The Act will provide billions for school modernization, which will help give our children the world-class education they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Senate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/financialnews\/D9QACO500.htm\">voted to kill<\/a> the American Jobs Act earlier this week despite Obama pushing its passage for weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange County is a White House poster child for the school renovation money tucked into president Barack Obama&#8217;s jobs bill. A White House press release points to a report from the Council on Great City Schools outlining urban school districts&#8217; infrastructure needs. The White House notes that Orange County schools would receive $169.6 million to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1044,1057,1036,43],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167"}],"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=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2172,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/2172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}