{"id":10514,"date":"2011-10-10T16:02:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T20:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10514"},"modified":"2011-10-10T15:55:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T19:55:03","slug":"shakira-to-work-on-obama-education-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10514","title":{"rendered":"Shakira To Work On Obama Education Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong> &#8211; Pop star Shakira said early childhood development was key to improving education for US Hispanics, as she began work on a new commission created by US <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There is no better investment than investment in our kids, especially when they are very little,&#8221;<strong> Shakira<\/strong> said at the White House on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can share a little bit of what I learned in the past 15 years working with Latino kids in Colombia and Latin America,&#8221; the Grammy award-winning Colombian diva said. &#8220;I am convinced that promoting early childhood development strategies and initiatives is the way to ensure that our kids, our Latino kids especially, will stick to their secondary education.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shakira<\/strong> was among four people named to the President&#8217;s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, a committee created by <strong>Obama<\/strong> last year that aims to expand access to high quality education for Hispanics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Pop star Shakira said early childhood development was key to improving education for US Hispanics, as she began work on a new commission created by US President Barack Obama. There is no better investment than investment in our kids, especially when they are very little,&#8221; Shakira said at the White House on Thursday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}