{"id":777754,"date":"2026-05-06T17:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/777754\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T17:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:38:16","slug":"tonight-town-hall-to-focus-on-school-funding-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/777754\/","title":{"rendered":"TONIGHT: Town Hall to focus on school funding challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; As the school year winds down, many local schools are facing massive budget deficits that are resulting in school closures and staff cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s school voucher program is sending some public students, and their tax money, to private or charter schools.<\/p>\n<p>Although keep in mind, many of those students were already going to private school. They simply lived in the district.<\/p>\n<p>But there are questions about the future of public education.<\/p>\n<p>Join us tonight for a special \u201cCrisis in the Classroom\u201d town hall discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Local education leaders, advocates, and parents will be in studio talking to News 4\u2019s Mariza Mendoza about the challenges facing our schools and some possible solutions to make sure our kids are set up for success.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss it, tonight at 6:30 here on News 4 and online at news4sa.com and our sister station foxsanantonio.com.<\/p>\n<p>Confirmed guests:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ed Garza, SAISD board of trustees<\/li>\n<li>Inga Cotton, School Discovery Network<\/li>\n<li>Jamilah Thompson, Judson ISD parent<\/li>\n<li>Chief Wally McCampbell, NEISD Police Dept.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Topic we&#8217;re covering:<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>School closures<\/li>\n<li>Budget cuts<\/li>\n<li>Staff cuts<\/li>\n<li>Voucher impact<\/li>\n<li>Safety<\/li>\n<li>Enrollment solutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; As the school year winds down, many local schools are facing massive budget deficits that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":777755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-777754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116528854262890160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}