{"id":412,"date":"2024-07-11T19:27:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/?p=412"},"modified":"2025-05-12T13:48:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:48:56","slug":"road-to-ruin-for-northampton-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/2024\/07\/11\/road-to-ruin-for-northampton-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Road to Ruin for Northampton 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\/2024\/07\/Scott-Brown.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Scott-Brown.png 600w, https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Scott-Brown-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Scott-Brown-18x9.png 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;Mindless, grinding cuts, year after year, are as suicidal as overspending . . . Yes, &#8216;budget shortfalls.&#8217; Yes, &#8216;sunsetting pandemic funds.&#8217; Yes, inflation . . .  we can either muster the vision and tenacity and stomach to plan for it \u2014 with innovative new public-investment funds, with creative and surgical approaches to tax policy, with a more granular look at our city budgets \u2014 or we can bean-count and bond-monger our way into educational, and then literal, impoverishment.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Read Scott Brown&#8217;s Letter to the Editor here:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazettenet.com\/Letter-Road-to-ruin-for-Northampton-schools-55165352\">https:\/\/www.gazettenet.com\/Letter-Road-to-ruin-for-Northampton-schools-55165352<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">May 17, 2024<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mindless, grinding cuts, year after year, are as suicidal as overspending . . . Yes, &#8216;budget shortfalls.&#8217; Yes, &#8216;sunsetting pandemic funds.&#8217; Yes, inflation . . . we can either muster the vision and tenacity and stomach to plan for it \u2014 with innovative new public-investment funds, with creative and surgical approaches to tax policy, with [&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-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","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=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}