{"id":38234,"date":"2014-11-13T19:39:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T19:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=38234"},"modified":"2014-11-13T19:58:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T19:58:47","slug":"election-2014-means-jewish-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/education\/election-2014-means-jewish-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2014: What it Means for Jewish Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/edu_slide-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"edu_slide\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-38236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/edu_slide-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/edu_slide.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The sweeping and surprising electoral results from last week\u2019s election transformed the makeup of the U.S. Senate, overturned several gubernatorial races and introduced entire ideological shifts in state legislatures. People and pundits throughout the country are debating the factors that led to the Republican sweep, including economic issues and the President\u2019s popularity, or lack thereof. What isn&#8217;t being discussed, however, is the impact this election will have on future funding for Jewish education.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at the races that impact Jewish education.<\/p>\n<p>In Florida, Governor Rick Scott won re-election in one of the most hotly contested and well-funded races. Right in the middle of the race, a lawsuit was raised challenging the state\u2019s educational tax credit program, which provides funding for 70,000 low-income children and close to $9 million in funding for Florida Jewish day schools. Challenger Charlie Crist chose to support this lawsuit and Governor Scott voiced his opposition. Private school parents rallied against Charlie Crist and, in an interesting turn of events, Crist lost by about 70,000 votes \u2013 the same number of students who benefit from the program.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article at <a href=\"http:\/\/ejewishphilanthropy.com\/election-2014-what-it-means-for-jewish-education\/\">ejewishphilanthropy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sweeping and surprising electoral results from last week\u2019s election transformed the makeup of the U.S. Senate, overturned several gubernatorial races and introduced entire ideological shifts in state legislatures. People and pundits throughout the country are debating the factors that led to the Republican sweep, including economic issues and the President\u2019s popularity, or lack thereof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Election 2014: What it Means for Jewish Education - OU Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/education\/election-2014-means-jewish-education\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Election 2014: What it Means for Jewish Education - OU Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The sweeping and surprising electoral results from last week\u2019s election transformed the makeup of the U.S. Senate, overturned several gubernatorial races and introduced entire ideological shifts in state legislatures. 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