{"id":115,"date":"2006-08-24T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2006-08-28T22:55:08","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T02:55:08","slug":"aces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"ACES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomictumor.com\">Atomictumor<\/a> broke the news yesterday about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supportoakridgeschools.com\">Atomic City Education Society<\/a>; today, it made the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oakridger.com\/stories\/082406\/new_744082406.shtml\">Oak Ridger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the single greatest thing about this town: the people who live here.  ACES started with a few friends who saw a problem, identified a need for public involvement, and stepped up to the plate.  It&#8217;s not the first time: one of the few sat through an entire City Council meeting not long ago for his three minutes at the microphone&#8230; but that wasn&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n<p>AT, GAC, Mrs. Eaves, and Bosphorus: you are the greatest!<\/p>\n<p>There are others working toward the same goal, from PTOs to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orpsef.org\">Oak Ridge Public Schools Education Foundation<\/a>, and it&#8217;s my hope that the collective, coordinated efforts will turn the tide of the last six years, so that we can continue to offer a public education that prepares all of our kids for the future.<\/p>\n<p>One of mine has already benefited, and started her first day of classes at UT yesterday.  Three more are working their way through, from 11th grade down to 6th.  But this is about much more than children; the quality of the school system affects most or all of what our city strives toward &#8212; increased residency, bringing in new business and retail, and generally improving the quality of life in our community.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be signing up for some bumper stickers as soon as I can get them, and I hope you will too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atomictumor broke the news yesterday about the Atomic City Education Society; today, it made the Oak Ridger. That&#8217;s the single greatest thing about this town: the people who live here. ACES started with a few friends who saw a problem, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=115\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}