{"id":191616,"date":"2025-04-09T06:30:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T11:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=191616"},"modified":"2025-04-09T06:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T11:30:33","slug":"seeing-red-over-proposed-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/04\/09\/seeing-red-over-proposed-budget-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing red over proposed budget cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In cooperation with the staff and administration at Van Wert City Schools, Lincolnview Local Schools and Vantage Career Center, Crestview Local Schools staff and administration will wear &#8220;Red for Public Education&#8221; this Friday, April 11.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Area educators are attempting to bring greater visibility to the&nbsp;ongoing discussion in Columbus about funding and support for public education in the upcoming state budget.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent proposals from Governor DeWine&#8217;s administration and House Speaker Matt Huffman have sent alarm bells across the State of Ohio regarding the General Assembly&#8217;s commitment\u00a0to fair and equitable funding for public schools.\u00a0The proposed two-year budget would slash over $100 million from public schools throughout Ohio.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert County educators are encouraging neighbors, friends, and community partners to join in on Friday by wearing &#8220;Red for Ed.&#8221;&nbsp; Additionally, the teachers are encouraging everyone to reach out to Representative Roy Klopfenstein (R-Haviland) and Senate President Rob McColley (R-Napoleon), and ask them to honor previous commitments&nbsp;to fairly&nbsp;and equitably fund public education across&nbsp;Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information In cooperation with the staff and administration at Van Wert City Schools, Lincolnview Local Schools and Vantage Career Center, Crestview Local Schools staff and administration will wear &#8220;Red for Public Education&#8221; this Friday, April 11.&nbsp; Area educators are attempting to bring greater visibility to the&nbsp;ongoing discussion in Columbus about funding and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-16 23:20:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191617,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191616\/revisions\/191617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}