{"id":1814,"date":"2025-01-18T01:22:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T01:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2025-05-12T13:50:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:50:48","slug":"the-true-cost-of-underfunding-our-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/2025\/01\/18\/the-true-cost-of-underfunding-our-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Cost of Underfunding Our Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quotes-for-SOS.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quotes-for-SOS.png 600w, https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quotes-for-SOS-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quotes-for-SOS-18x9.png 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Underfunding Northampton\u2019s schools:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Reduces the earning potential of each graduating class by millions of dollars, shrinking the local economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Increases costs for police responses and social services, straining the city\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Limits opportunities for students to thrive, perpetuating cycles of poverty and inequity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Read Karen Kauschen&#8217;s Guest Column here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gazettenet.com.\/Letter-to-the-editor-58886453\">https:\/\/gazettenet.com.\/Letter-to-the-editor-58886453<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">January 14, 2025<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underfunding Northampton\u2019s schools: 1. Reduces the earning potential of each graduating class by millions of dollars, shrinking the local economy. 2. Increases costs for police responses and social services, straining the city\u2019s budget. 3. Limits opportunities for students to thrive, perpetuating cycles of poverty and inequity. Read Karen Kauschen&#8217;s Guest Column here: https:\/\/gazettenet.com.\/Letter-to-the-editor-58886453 January 14, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}