{"id":253794,"date":"2017-06-06T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=253794"},"modified":"2017-06-06T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T20:00:42","slug":"cruz-new-pss-student-representative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cruz-new-pss-student-representative\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz is new PSS student representative"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_253796\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253796\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Mariah-pix-300x174.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Education Commissioner Cynthia Deleon Guerrero, teacher representative Paul Miura, Board of Education member Herman Guerrero, Tinian Junior and Senior High School vice principal Martina Diaz, Mary Susan Cruz (mother of Mariah Manuel- Cruz), student representative Mariah Manuel Cruz, BOE chair Marylou Ada, associate commissioner Glen Muna, and PSS federal programs officer Tim Thornburgh pose for a photo after the oath taking of the new student representative. (Bea Cabrera)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mariah Manuel Cruz is the Public School System\u2019s new student representative on the Board of Education.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz took her oath in front of other board members on Monday at the commissioner\u2019s office on Capital Hill. As a student representative, she is a non-voting board member.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cAs student representative, I stand as an advocate and my goals are to achieve and fulfill all the students\u2019 requests,\u201d Cruz said.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz is a 17-year-old incoming senior at Tinian Junior\/Senior High School.<\/p>\n<p>According to BOE chair Marylou Ada, the school representative position is rotated in all the islands in the CNMI. This year, it was Tinian\u2019s turn. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we wrote a letter to the principal to come up with a list of students who are best qualified to represent the needs of the students and Cruz was the student recommended to us. We then sent the recommendation to the governor and sought his approval,\u201d said Ada. <\/p>\n<p>Cruz is aware of the magnitude of the tasks before her. \u201cI know this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I also know that it\u2019s kind of daunting to do this kind of job but I believe I can do it with the help of the BOE, teacher and students,\u201d Cruz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mariah Manuel Cruz is the Public School System\u2019s new student representative on the Board of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":253796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[39,17096,17097,4151],"class_list":["post-253794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-boe","tag-mariah-manuel-cruz","tag-mary-susan-cruz","tag-marylou-ada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}