{"id":11441,"date":"2014-08-06T11:50:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T16:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11441"},"modified":"2014-08-06T12:08:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T17:08:40","slug":"something-our-school-board-chair-chooses-not-to-investigate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11441","title":{"rendered":"Something our school board Chair chooses not to investigate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Est. Red Plan cost 2007&#8230;&#8230;..actual Red Plan costs today<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..$257 mil. total&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;$310 mil. total<br \/>\n&#8230;.-$ 34 mil. prof.services&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;-$ 84 mil. prof.services (soft costs)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..$223 mil. construction&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.$226 mil. construction<\/p>\n<p>Johnson Controls&#8217; no bid contract ended up with very little increase in construction costs but nearly a three-fold increase in &#8220;soft costs&#8221; for professional services.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;&#8230;.that&#8217;s looking back. The Duluth School Board only moves Duluth forward&#8230;&#8230;..<strong>by laying off teachers, increasing the number of kids in classes, decreasing its music program and providing unequal educational opportunities for children in neighborhoods where children constitute a higher proportion of the free and reduced lunch population.<\/strong><em><\/p>\n<p>Will the Board majority follow the lead of the Chairman?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Est. Red Plan cost 2007&#8230;&#8230;..actual Red Plan costs today &#8230;..$257 mil. total&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;$310 mil. total &#8230;.-$ 34 mil. prof.services&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;-$ 84 mil. prof.services (soft costs) &#8230;..$223&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35,102,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11441"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11459,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441\/revisions\/11459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}