{"id":8797,"date":"2013-02-11T12:53:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T18:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=8797"},"modified":"2013-03-11T12:24:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T18:24:20","slug":"ops-restructuring-bill-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=8797","title":{"rendered":"OPS restructuring bill passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The size and structure of the Omaha Public School (OPS) board will change under a bill passed by the Legislature Feb. 11.<\/p>\n<p>LB125, introduced by Omaha Sen. Scott Lautenbaugh, reduces board membership from 12 to nine members. A special election \u2014 coinciding with the Omaha citywide election this spring \u2014will fill all nine board member positions.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, the elections will be staggered. Board members from even-numbered districts will be up for election in Fall 2014; members from odd-numbered districts will be up for election in Fall 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Senators passed the bill on a 44-4 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The size and structure of the Omaha Public School (OPS) board will change under a bill passed by the Legislature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-8797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-sen-scott-lautenbaugh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9588,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions\/9588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}