{"id":39,"date":"2018-10-16T20:49:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T20:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virginiaconsortium.org\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2021-03-25T21:41:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:41:44","slug":"lobbying-for-legislation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/virginiaconsortium.org\/?page_id=39","title":{"rendered":"Lobbying for Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40\" src=\"https:\/\/virginiaconsortium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/virginiageneralassembly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"136\"><\/p>\n<p>The Virginia General Assembly is where policy is made that affects all the students in the Commonwealth.&nbsp; The Consortium will be involved in direct lobbying efforts to improve policy that benefits the learning community.&nbsp; Our elected officials have to be informed about the existing regulations in the Virginia Code and how new legislation may help or harm the student learner community.&nbsp; We will engage Delegates and Senators on the Education Committee and their colleagues for critical policy votes.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virginia General Assembly is where policy is made that affects all the students in the Commonwealth.&nbsp; The Consortium will &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virginiaconsortium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virginiaconsortium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virginiaconsortium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virginiaconsortium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virginiaconsortium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/virginiaconsortium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/virginiaconsortium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virginiaconsortium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}