{"id":1026900,"date":"2021-06-17T10:30:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1026900"},"modified":"2021-06-18T11:09:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T16:09:33","slug":"foundation-challenges-tisds-partnership-with-mentoring-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1026900","title":{"rendered":"TISD responds to challenge of Mentoring Alliance partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/06\/blobid0_1606166656049-175x79.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"79\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1026901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/06\/blobid0_1606166656049-175x79.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/06\/blobid0_1606166656049-768x347.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/06\/blobid0_1606166656049.jpg 1497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Tyler ISD has responded with a brief statement after its partnership with locally-based Mentoring Alliance was challenged.  The Freedom from Religion Foundation said Wednesday that TISD must immediately revoke a large subsidy for the Mentoring Alliance&#8217;s sectarian religious summer camp. In a news release, the foundation says TISD has approved $500,000 in partnership with the Christ-centered ministry to send students to camp each summer. The news release says FFRF was contacted by a concerned district community member about the summer camp program. TISD responded by saying, &#8220;The district values its partnership with the Mentoring Alliance and its support of the district&#8217;s mission of successful student outcomes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Tyler ISD has responded with a brief statement after its partnership with locally-based Mentoring Alliance was challenged. The Freedom from Religion Foundation said Wednesday that TISD must immediately revoke a large subsidy for the Mentoring Alliance&#8217;s sectarian religious summer camp. In a news release, the foundation says TISD has approved $500,000 in partnership &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1026900\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TISD responds to challenge of Mentoring Alliance partnership<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1026905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/06\/blobid0_1606166656049-175x79.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Foundation challenges TISD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s partnership with Mentoring Alliance","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 12:10:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/06\/blobid0_1606166656049-175x79.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Foundation challenges TISD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s partnership with Mentoring Alliance","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027086,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026900\/revisions\/1027086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1026905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1026900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1026900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}