{"id":1580,"date":"2013-02-06T12:35:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T18:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emidfamilies.org\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2013-02-06T12:35:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T18:35:03","slug":"make-your-voices-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/archives\/1580","title":{"rendered":"Make your voices heard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 25, the EMID Board voted to allow Perpich Center for Arts Education to take over governance of Crosswinds if they can receive approval from the Minnesota Legislature by April 1. The Perpich Center for Arts Education is now working very hard to convince the Minnesota Legislature and Governor to give it the authority and funding it needs to run the Crosswinds Arts and Science School. Your voice is critical to this effort, your own state representative and senator need to hear your support for the Perpich proposal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please write letters<\/strong> to Governor Mark Dayton and Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius. Let them know what Crosswinds has meant for you and your student and ask them to support the Perpich proposal which will continue to Crosswinds program. Please also write letters to or meet with your State Senator and Representative. Let them know that you are a constituent and why you believe Crosswinds is important.<\/p>\n<p>More information, including addresses and a tool for finding out who your representatives are can be found on our &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/state\">Contacting your Representatives<\/a>&#8221; resource page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 25, the EMID Board voted to allow Perpich Center for Arts Education to take over governance of Crosswinds if they can receive approval from the Minnesota Legislature by April 1. The Perpich Center for Arts Education is now working very hard to convince the Minnesota Legislature and Governor to give it the authority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,29,33,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crosswinds","category-legislative","category-pcae","category-sos","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}