{"id":27536,"date":"2019-02-06T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rentonnews.us\/opinion\/vote-yes-to-support-renton-schools\/"},"modified":"2019-02-06T12:04:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:04:38","slug":"vote-yes-to-support-renton-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/letters\/vote-yes-to-support-renton-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote yes to support Renton schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two important school funding measures are on the Feb. 12 ballot. Voter approval is required to maintain this source of local funding to improve our schools and community.<\/p>\n<p>I am a mother of two children in the Renton School District. I also had the privilege of serving as co-chair of the Capital Facilities Advisory Committee. I fully support a quality education and learning environment for all teachers, staff and students. This is an opportunity to create a standard of excellence in our community. We need your vote to do this.<\/p>\n<p>Priorities for both funding measures will include a new elementary school, upgraded safety\/security procedures in all schools, additional educational programs (Arts, Robotics, STEM and Science), building maintenance and overall site improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Funding will also contribute to classroom materials, lower class size,teacher salaries, school lunches, music, athletics, theater and arts.<\/p>\n<p>Even with approval of both of these measures, Renton School District tax rates will continue to drop for property owners.<\/p>\n<p>Make your voice heard &mdash; vote yes by Feb. 12 to help our schools and community to be the best place to learn, live and thrive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ellie Diaz <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bellevue <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two important school funding measures are on the Feb. 12 ballot. Voter approval is required to maintain this source of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":27537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27536"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}