{"id":19745,"date":"2011-06-02T16:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T20:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=19745"},"modified":"2011-06-02T16:31:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T20:31:18","slug":"chicago-aims-to-get-computers-into-poor-students-homes-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/06\/02\/chicago-aims-to-get-computers-into-poor-students-homes-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago aims to get computers into poor students&#8217; homes [AP]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/articles\/2011\/05\/31\/432908ilchicagocomputerprogram_ap.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago aims to get computers into poor students&#8217; homes <\/a><\/strong>&#8212; by  \t\t\t    The Associated Press<\/p>\n<div><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Chicago, IL (USA)<\/em> Saying there are whole chunks of Chicago where children are falling  further behind in school because they don&#8217;t have computers at home,  Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Tuesday what he called a first-of-its-kind  program to sell discounted computers to low-income families and provide  them Internet service at a drastically reduced rate.<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;We have done our job working with a great partner, Comcast, who will  make Chicago the first city of its kind in the country to deal  comprehensively with the digital divide to make sure every child has a  chance to compete in the 21st century economy,&#8221; Emanuel said at a news  conference at a library on the city&#8217;s South Side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related item:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edtrust.org\/node\/2369\" target=\"_blank\">For low-income students, turning college dreams into a reality isn\u2019t easy<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from EdTrust.org<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago aims to get computers into poor students&#8217; homes &#8212; by The Associated Press Excerpt: Chicago, IL (USA) Saying there are whole chunks of Chicago where children are falling further behind in school because they don&#8217;t have computers at home, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Tuesday what he called a first-of-its-kind program to sell discounted computers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,55,46,480,367],"tags":[627,421,597,494,4,792,747],"class_list":["post-19745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-internet","category-k-12-related","category-society","category-vendors","tag-21st-century","tag-computer","tag-internet","tag-justice","tag-k-12","tag-society","tag-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19749,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19745\/revisions\/19749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}