{"id":259804,"date":"2026-05-05T22:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259804\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T22:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:12:20","slug":"jacksonville-schools-dod-team-up-to-relaunch-starbase-stem-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259804\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville schools, DoD team up to relaunch STARBASE STEM program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LITTLE ROCK (KATV) \u2014 A hands-on STEM program grounded at Little Rock Air Force Base is getting ready for takeoff again, thanks to a renewed partnership.<\/p>\n<p>The Jacksonville-North Pulaski School District is teaming up with the Department of Defense and Little Rock Air Force Base to bring back STARBASE Arkansas, a program designed to give students interactive experiences in science, technology, engineering and math while helping them build skills for future careers.<\/p>\n<p>STARBASE Arkansas had been suspended in February of last year because of a lack of funding. The district is aiming for the program  start back up in August, expanding STEM opportunities for students across Arkansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LITTLE ROCK (KATV) \u2014 A hands-on STEM program grounded at Little Rock Air Force Base is getting ready&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-259804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}