{"id":5661,"date":"2017-01-19T11:56:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T17:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=5661"},"modified":"2017-01-19T11:56:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T17:56:06","slug":"icymi-secretary-of-education-confirmation-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=5661","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Secretary of Education Confirmation Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below is video from the recent confirmation hearing for Secretary of Education candidate Betsy DeVos, courtesy of C-SPAN. You can find this video on their website, along with a transcript of the 3-hour proceeding. \u00a0I would recommend that any stakeholder in our education system (basically everyone) take the time to watch this hearing and develop their own reason- and evidence-based views on the answers provided.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/standalone\/?421224-1\/education-secretary-nominee-betsy-devos-testifies-confirmation-hearing\" width=\"512\" height=\"330\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you have any comments regarding the candidacy of Ms. DeVos (be they positive, negative or otherwise), I encourage you to share those with your congressional representatives in the House and Senate. The members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions can be <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/about\/members\">found here<\/a><\/strong>. Our own Pat Roberts, is a member of this committee, he can be contacted from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roberts.senate.gov\/public\/?p=EmailPat\">this webpage<\/a><\/strong>. You can also call Senator Roberts&#8217; offices to share your comments with him using the phone numbers below.<br \/>\n<strong>Washington, D.C. Office<\/strong>: (202) 224-4774<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Dodge City, KS Office<\/strong>: (620) 227-2244<br \/>\n<strong>Topeka, KS Office<\/strong>: (785) 295-2745<br \/>\n<strong>Overland Park, KS Office<\/strong>: (913) 451-9343<br \/>\n<strong>Wichita, KS Office<\/strong>: (316) 263-0416<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions or would like to start a dialogue on this (or another) matter, drop us a comment in the KABT Facebook group or send us an email at askkabt@gmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is video from the recent confirmation hearing for Secretary of Education candidate Betsy DeVos, courtesy of C-SPAN. You can find this video on their website, along with a transcript of the 3-hour proceeding. \u00a0I would recommend that any stakeholder in our education system (basically everyone) take the time to watch this hearing and develop<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=5661\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5666,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[679],"class_list":["post-5661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabt-news","tag-secretary-of-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5664,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions\/5664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}