{"id":694,"date":"2023-11-01T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/?p=694"},"modified":"2023-11-01T12:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T16:00:36","slug":"vote-yes-on-proposition-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/2023\/11\/01\/vote-yes-on-proposition-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote &#8220;Yes&#8221; on Proposition 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Proposition 1 is a proposed change to the state&#8217;s constitution that would correct a decades-old unjust flaw in our laws and FINALLY give small city school districts across New York state the same opportunities as their rural and suburban counterparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now, the more than 200,000 students that attend schools in small city districts \u2014 six in ten of whom are considered economically disadvantaged \u2014 can&#8217;t benefit from the borrowing power available to rural and suburban districts. This means fewer new schools or facilities, fewer repairs and improvements, and fewer opportunities. A YES vote on Proposition 1 rights this wrong, promotes fairness, supports students &amp; families, and lifts up communitie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Current law hurts students that are most in need across the state. NYSUT  strongly believes we can do better, and we strongly support voting YES  on Proposition 1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposition 1 is a proposed change to the state&#8217;s constitution that would correct a decades-old unjust flaw in our laws and FINALLY give small city school districts across New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}