{"id":319234,"date":"2026-06-02T14:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/319234\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:33:06","slug":"today-on-texas-standard-despite-state-funding-boost-school-districts-still-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/319234\/","title":{"rendered":"Today on Texas Standard: Despite state funding boost, school districts still struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas lawmakers increased public school funding last session through House Bill 2, but many districts say financial pressures continue to mount. At a recent legislative hearing, school leaders described ongoing struggles with staffing, special education\u00a0costs\u00a0and budget shortfalls. <\/p>\n<p class=\"meta \">By Texas StandardJune 2, 2026\u00a09:11 am<a href=\"https:\/\/texasstandard.org\/stories\/categories\/ts-original\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Standard Original<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/texasstandard.org\/stories\/categories\/show\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whole Shows<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas lawmakers increased public school funding last session through House Bill 2, but many districts say financial pressures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-319234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}