{"id":618,"date":"2012-06-07T17:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=618"},"modified":"2012-06-07T17:00:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T00:00:21","slug":"radio-forum-gov-proposes-nixing-high-school-science-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/06\/07\/radio-forum-gov-proposes-nixing-high-school-science-requirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Forum: Gov. Proposes Nixing High School Science Requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/u.s.kqed.net\/2012\/06\/06\/ScienceClassGeneric.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Host: <\/strong>Spencer Michels<\/p>\n<p>A little-known proposal from Governor Jerry Brown would eliminate the state&#8217;s mandate that all high school students get two years of science education. Sacramento says it&#8217;s in the name of fixing the budget. But many argue that subjects like science and math are only rising in importance, and nixing science is too high a price to pay.<\/p>\n<p>We examine the state of science in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/a\/forum\/R201206070900\">California&#8217;s public schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Caleb Cheung, science manager for the Oakland Unified School District<\/li>\n<li>H.D. Palmer, deputy director, external affairs for the California Department of Finance<\/li>\n<li>Kerry Benefield, reporter for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat<\/li>\n<li>Rick Pomeroy, professor in the UC Davis School of Education, president of the California Science Teachers Association and former science teacher for 20 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Host: Spencer Michels A little-known proposal from Governor Jerry Brown would eliminate the state&#8217;s mandate that all high school students get two years of science education. Sacramento says it&#8217;s in the name of fixing the budget. But many argue that subjects like science and math are only rising in importance, and nixing science is too &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/06\/07\/radio-forum-gov-proposes-nixing-high-school-science-requirement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Radio Forum: Gov. Proposes Nixing High School Science Requirement<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_local_ag"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}