{"id":381,"date":"2024-07-11T19:07:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2025-05-12T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:48:10","slug":"northampton-schools-chronically-underfunded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/2024\/07\/11\/northampton-schools-chronically-underfunded\/","title":{"rendered":"Northampton Schools Chronically Underfunded"},"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\/2024\/07\/Johanna-Radding.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Johanna-Radding.png 600w, https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Johanna-Radding-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Johanna-Radding-18x9.png 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;The schools are underfunded, they do not have a deficit. The &#8216;deficit&#8217; is a manufactured one. There is over $2 million in free cash available right now and more money in reserves, yet the mayor continues to choose to underfund our schools in the name of fiscal stability. A city that hoards money while choosing not to fully fund essential services, is neither fiscally stable nor fiscally responsible.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Read Johanna Radding&#8217;s Letter to the Editor here:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazettenet.com\/Letter-to-the-editor-55568058\">https:\/\/www.gazettenet.com\/Letter-to-the-editor-55568058<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">June 19, 2024<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The schools are underfunded, they do not have a deficit. The &#8216;deficit&#8217; is a manufactured one. There is over $2 million in free cash available right now and more money in reserves, yet the mayor continues to choose to underfund our schools in the name of fiscal stability. A city that hoards money while choosing [&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-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}