{"id":2929,"date":"2024-01-31T15:11:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T15:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/31\/oklahoma-demands-teachers-return-bonuses-of-up-to-50000-paid-in-error\/"},"modified":"2024-01-31T15:11:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T15:11:08","slug":"oklahoma-demands-teachers-return-bonuses-of-up-to-50000-paid-in-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/31\/oklahoma-demands-teachers-return-bonuses-of-up-to-50000-paid-in-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma demands teachers return bonuses of up to $50,000 paid in error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Errant payments and instruction to return them has drawn bipartisan ire in state in which average teacher pay is $54,800<\/p>\n<p>With four young children and a fifth on the way, Kristina Stadelman was ecstatic after qualifying for a $50,000 bonus for taking a hard-to-fill job as a special education teacher in Oklahoma. She used the money to finish home improvements and buy a new car for her growing family.<\/p>\n<p>Then a letter arrived from the Oklahoma state department of education: it told her she received the money in error and must repay it, quickly.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/31\/oklahoma-teacher-bonuses-repayment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Errant payments and instruction to return them has drawn bipartisan ire in state in which average teacher pay is $54,800 With four young children and a fifth on the way, Kristina Stadelman was ecstatic after qualifying for a $50,000 bonus for taking a hard-to-fill job as a special education teacher in Oklahoma. She used the &#8230; <a title=\"Oklahoma demands teachers return bonuses of up to $50,000 paid in error\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/31\/oklahoma-demands-teachers-return-bonuses-of-up-to-50000-paid-in-error\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oklahoma demands teachers return bonuses of up to $50,000 paid in error\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}