{"id":4670,"date":"2009-04-29T07:07:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T12:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2009-04-29T07:07:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T12:07:10","slug":"under-the-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4670","title":{"rendered":"Under The Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saint Paul School Board is <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2009\/04\/10\/obama_school\/\">considering changing Webster Magnet <\/a>to &#8220;Barack And Michelle Obama Service Learning Elementary School&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"regular\">Leaders at Webster Magnet School say they want their name change to reflect the school&#8217;s renewed focus on teaching students about community service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"regular\">One name being considered is the &#8220;Barack and Michelle Obama Service Learning Elementary School.&#8221; The other option is to call it &#8220;Webster Service Learning Elementary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"regular\">The process involves a public voting process.\u00a0 According to an email forward to me from Superintendant Carstarphen:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"regular\"><em>Thank you for your email  concerns to Director Conlon on April 21 regarding the proposed Webster name  change.\u00a0 As with previous school name change proposals, we ensure there is  a process for all people to have a voice in this process.\u00a0 Anyone who lives  in Saint Paul will be able to vote on April 30, 7:00 a.m. &#8211;\u00a0 7:00 p.m. at  the school.\u00a0 Saint Paul Public Schools (SPPS) Community Relations  department has worked on a notice giving all the details regarding the voting  process and location which the Pioneer Press has agreed to publish<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you live in Saint Paul, and believe that Wellstone, Ventura and Franken were embarassment enough for this state, show on up at Webster during the window tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be there, of course.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re there, and see anything &#8211; er &#8211; interesting, email me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saint Paul School Board is considering changing Webster Magnet to &#8220;Barack And Michelle Obama Service Learning Elementary School&#8221;. Leaders at Webster Magnet School say they want their name change to reflect the school&#8217;s renewed focus on teaching students about community service. One name being considered is the &#8220;Barack and Michelle Obama Service Learning Elementary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}