{"id":11443,"date":"2019-11-22T20:53:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T04:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=11443"},"modified":"2019-11-22T20:53:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T04:53:19","slug":"during-the-2019-oregon-special-election-polk-county-passed-a-levy-that-would-extend-funding-for-educational-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/during-the-2019-oregon-special-election-polk-county-passed-a-levy-that-would-extend-funding-for-educational-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"During the 2019 Oregon Special Election, Polk County passed a levy that would extend funding for educational programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><strong>Sage Kiernan-Sherrow<\/strong> | News Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Approximately 30% of 959 eligible voters participated in Oregon\u2019s Special Election \u2014 an election not part of the regular schedule \u2014 which took place on Nov. 5, according to oregonvotes.gov. Overall, there were nine state-wide measures to vote upon, and all aside from one passed. The measures primarily focused on education, environmental, and economic issues.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In Polk County, community members were voting on a measure that would determine if the Falls City School District would renew a five-year levy that would otherwise terminate in June of 2020. According to the Polk County website, this levy would \u201ccontinue funding for a music program, sports programs, extracurricular activities and FACES, or the Family Academics Community Enrichment for Success program.\u201d Out of 297 votes collected for this particular measure, 180 were in support, and the measure passed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Contact the author at <a href=\"mailto:howlnews@wou.edu\">howlnews@wou.edu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sage Kiernan-Sherrow | News Editor Approximately 30% of 959 eligible voters participated in Oregon\u2019s Special Election \u2014 an election not part of the regular schedule \u2014 which took place on Nov. 5, according to oregonvotes.gov. Overall, there were nine state-wide measures to vote upon, and all aside from one passed. The measures primarily focused on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":10024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}