{"id":103278,"date":"2025-05-01T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/05\/01\/legislature-passes-100-million-bill-to-raise-teacher-pay\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-05-01T05:04:35","modified_gmt":"2027-10-18T05:04:35","slug":"legislature-passes-100-million-bill-to-raise-teacher-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/05\/01\/legislature-passes-100-million-bill-to-raise-teacher-pay\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Legislature Passes $100 Million Bill To Raise Teacher Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legislature\u2019s high-profile  STARS Act cleared its final vote in the Senate on Tuesday afternoon, with a bipartisan bloc of 43 lawmakers  approving the proposal that would direct $100 million  toward raising starting teacher pay in Montana\u2019s K-12 schools.<br \/>\n\t  The STARS Act \u2014 also known as House Bill 252 \u2014 quickly emerged as a top policy  priority this session for a broad coalition of Republicans,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103366,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103278\/revisions\/103366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103278"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=103278"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=103278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}