{"id":32598,"date":"2014-08-28T18:25:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T22:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=32598"},"modified":"2014-08-28T18:25:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T22:25:54","slug":"gov-scott-on-lee-countys-decision-to-opt-out-of-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/08\/gov-scott-on-lee-countys-decision-to-opt-out-of-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Scott On Lee County&#8217;s Decision To Opt Out Of Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_32599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32599\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-32599 \" title=\"gov-rick-scott\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gov-rick-scott-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gov-rick-scott-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gov-rick-scott.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Governor Rick Scott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Governor Rick Scott weighed in on the Lee County School Board&#8217;s decision to opt out of state-mandated testing.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the historical decision the school board made, Gov. Scott said, &#8220;We will see exactly what they did, but I think the one thing they&#8217;ll have to think about is: did it impact their ability to get federal funding?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What impact, if they do lose that, will that have on their students?&#8221; Scott added.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Scott also said the biggest concern for a teacher, parent or student is whether the decision will reduce the schools&#8217; federal funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Rick Scott weighed in on the Lee County School Board&#8217;s decision to opt out of state-mandated testing. When asked about the historical decision the school board made, Gov. Scott&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}