{"id":15873,"date":"2026-05-08T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/southport\/blog\/news\/recognition-week-2026-friends-in-education\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:05:58","slug":"recognition-week-2026-friends-in-education","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/southport\/news\/recognition-week-2026-friends-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Recognition Week 2026: Friends in Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were proud to celebrate our Friends in Education who were nominated for the time, care and attention they give to our students and staff. Their support and dedication strengthen our learning environments and help students learn and grow.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us in thanking our Friends in Education for the positive impact they make across our school community every day! &#x1f44f;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spacedlist\">\n<li>1HOPE<\/li>\n<li>Beverly \u201cBunny\u201d Stoops<\/li>\n<li>Joy Falcon<\/li>\n<li>Mary Kueppers<\/li>\n<li>Melanie Mikula<\/li>\n<li>Michael Redding<\/li>\n<li>Mike Middleton<\/li>\n<li>Samantha Jacquest-Zura, Blue House Books<\/li>\n<li>St. Peter\u2019s Church &amp; Knights of Columbus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15874,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[13],"class_list":["post-15873","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/southport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/southport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/southport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/southport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/southport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/southport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}