{"id":2424,"date":"2011-10-25T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2011-10-27T08:57:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T12:57:02","slug":"pension-voucher-lawsuits-head-to-court-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/25\/pension-voucher-lawsuits-head-to-court-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Pension, Voucher Lawsuits Head to Court This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2425\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 200px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Two education-related lawsuits head to court this week.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/Justice.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2425\" title=\"Justice\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/Justice-300x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/Justice-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/Justice-220x330.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/Justice.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">John Linwood \/ Google Image Search<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two education-related lawsuits head to court this week.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Florida Education Association sends a helpful reminder that two lawsuits they filed are heading to Circuit Court in Tallahassee this week.<\/p>\n<p>The first case challenges a new state law which requires state employees take a 3 percent pay cut in order to pay a portion of their pension benefits. The suit argues the law is unconstitutional because public employees, including teachers, have a constitutionally protected right to collective bargaining.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing is scheduled for Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The second suit challenges a ballot question intended to overturn a century-old ban on spending public funds on religious organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The law was a key reason the Florida Supreme Court shut down a state program granting vouchers for private school tuition in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>That case is scheduled for a Thursday afternoon hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Education Association sends a helpful reminder that two lawsuits they filed are heading to Circuit Court in Tallahassee this week. The first case challenges a new state law which requires state employees take a 3 percent pay cut in order to pay a portion of their pension benefits. The suit argues the law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":2425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1047,1059,1015,1020],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424"}],"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=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions\/2506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}