{"id":54041,"date":"2014-03-08T11:53:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T16:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=54041"},"modified":"2014-03-08T11:53:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T16:53:02","slug":"ged-extinct-new-testing-program-launched-by-state-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=54041","title":{"rendered":"GED Extinct; New Testing Program Launched by State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dick_Benner_1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-54042\" alt=\"Dick_Benner_1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dick_Benner_1.jpg?resize=300%2C231\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dick_Benner_1.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dick_Benner_1.jpg?resize=150%2C115&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(Cazenovia, NY \u2013 Feb. 2014) Adult literacy learner Richard Benner is congratulated by Cazenovia Public Library Director Betsy Kennedy for earning his GED.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Benner may be one of the last people to earn the GED in Central New York. As of January, the GED is no longer being offered in New York state.\u00a0 A new test, the Test Assessing Secondary Completion, is being developed as the New York state high school equivalency exam, re-designed to meet Common Core standards.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Submitted Photo by Cindy McCall<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Cazenovia, NY \u2013 Feb. 2014) Adult literacy learner Richard Benner is congratulated by Cazenovia Public Library Director Betsy Kennedy for earning his GED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-e3D","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}