{"id":1136,"date":"2010-08-22T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2010-08-22T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T20:48:00","slug":"public-school-crowding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/public-school-crowding","title":{"rendered":"Concerns Over Public School Crowding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two public schools have enrolled so many additional students this year  that they are now each almost 500 students over their ideal capacity,  the Ministry of Education has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as some parents seeking to move their children from the  private into the public system are finding there are no spaces for them  at nearby schools, as the Ministry of Education has announced that four  public schools are full, or over capacity at present, and no longer  accepting enrolments.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Director of Education, Lionel Sands, SC McPherson  Junior High and CV Bethel Senior High have enrolled 1,470 students this  year, 470 each more than the 1,000-strong student population that the  Ministry of Education would ideally wish the schools to sustain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s too large,&#8221; admitted Mr Sands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two public schools have enrolled so many additional students this year that they are now each almost 500 students over their ideal capacity, the Ministry of Education has revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-educational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}