{"id":58341,"date":"2019-08-14T05:47:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T05:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58341"},"modified":"2019-08-14T05:47:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T05:47:15","slug":"this-public-school-superintendent-plans-to-use-his-first-10000-bonus-to-cover-his-students-college-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/08\/14\/this-public-school-superintendent-plans-to-use-his-first-10000-bonus-to-cover-his-students-college-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"This public school superintendent plans to use his first $10,000 bonus to cover his students&#8217; college applications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Grant Rivera, a superintendent at a public school system in Georgia, recently received his first ever bonus of $10,000 after his district met certain performance standards. Instead of pocketing this money, this 44-year-old plans to use it to cover the college application fees of his high school students. \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rivera is donating the bonus to the\u00a0Marietta Schools Foundation\u00a0so that it can help students who apply to colleges ahead of regular application deadlines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe that a bonus provided by the board should be earned on the backs of the teachers,\u201d Rivera told the\u00a0Atlanta Journal-Constitution. \u201cMy hope is that it\u2019s an incentive for kids to do the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the 500 high schoolers in the graduating class, Rivera estimates that 150 to 200 students will apply to college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/superintendent-uses-10000-bonus-for-students-college-applications\/ (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/superintendent-uses-10000-bonus-for-students-college-applications\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/superintendent-uses-10000-bonus-for-students-college-applications\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Rivera, a superintendent at a public school system in Georgia, recently received his first ever bonus of $10,000 after his district met certain performance standards. Instead of pocketing this money, this 44-year-old plans to use it to cover the college application fees of his high school students. \u00a0 Rivera is donating the bonus to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}