{"id":18399,"date":"2026-01-29T20:37:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=18399"},"modified":"2026-01-29T20:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:37:51","slug":"rep-rogers-pushes-scott-high-school-license-plate-bill-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/rep-rogers-pushes-scott-high-school-license-plate-bill-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Rogers Pushes Scott High School License Plate Bill Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Representative\u00a0<strong>Elgin Rogers, Jr.<\/strong>\u00a0is urging community members to take the final step in bringing the\u00a0<strong>Scott High School specialty license plate<\/strong>\u00a0to life. Portions of the proceeds from the plate will go directly to the school to fund educational opportunities \u2014 a critical boost at a time when public schools face ongoing funding cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Residents can sign up\u00a0<strong>during normal business hours at Scott High School<\/strong>\u00a0with their driver\u2019s license and current license plate number. Signing up shows interest and helps move the plate into production \u2014 no purchase is required.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Rogers worked in\u00a0<strong>bipartisan partnership with co-sponsor Rep. DJ Swearingen<\/strong><br \/>\nto get the bill passed. The legislation gained regional attention when, during the House hearing, the Homeland Security Chair asked Rep. Rogers to recite his school\u2019s fight song. He began, and Bulldogs spanning multiple generations joined in, earning a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>A lot of work went into making this happen,<\/strong>\u201d said Rep. Rogers. \u201cNow I\u2019m asking for our community\u2019s support to seal the deal and give these students the chance to explore unending possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Representative\u00a0Elgin Rogers, Jr.\u00a0is urging community members to take the final step in bringing the\u00a0Scott High School specialty license plate\u00a0to life. Portions of the proceeds from the plate will go directly to the school to fund educational opportunities \u2014 a critical boost at a time when public schools face ongoing funding cuts. Residents can sign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,252],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[332],"class_list":["post-18399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18401,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18399\/revisions\/18401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18399"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=18399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}