{"id":177444,"date":"2015-09-01T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=177444"},"modified":"2015-09-01T15:52:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T15:52:18","slug":"pennsylvania-school-district-faces-bankruptcy-amid-budget-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/pennsylvania-school-district-faces-bankruptcy-amid-budget-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania school district faces bankruptcy amid budget deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Many schools in the US state of Pennsylvania are on the brink of collapse due to the state government\u2019s failure to pay subsidies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of Pennsylvania&#8217;s poorest school districts said it cannot afford to pay its teachers and staff amid a state budget stalemate, according to the Associate Press.<\/p>\n<p>The Chester Upland School District, which has been struggling with financial and academic problems for decades, is on the verge of bankruptcy and cannot make payroll, state and local officials have said.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers and support staff, including bus drivers, secretaries and janitors voted Thursday to continue working even if they are not paid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thought of it is very scary,\u201d said John Shelton, 60, dean of students at the district\u2019s only middle school and a 23-year employee. \u201cIt\u2019s mind-boggling because there\u2019s truly uncertainty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chester Upland\u2019s current fiscal crisis, however, is more serious, said Jeff Sheridan, a spokesman for Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/09\/01\/427282\/Pennsylvania-school-district--collapse\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many schools in the US state of Pennsylvania are on the brink of collapse due to the state government\u2019s failure to pay subsidies. One of Pennsylvania&#8217;s poorest school districts said it cannot afford to pay its teachers and staff amid a state budget stalemate, according to the Associate Press. The Chester Upland School District, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,52,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-177444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-money","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}