{"id":12098,"date":"2014-11-08T05:21:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T10:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12098"},"modified":"2017-02-25T04:47:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T09:47:42","slug":"there-there-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12098","title":{"rendered":"There is no there, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m torn between my campaign&#8217;s vow of honesty (by spilling all the beans) and charting a different course for this school board. Every post that sheds light on our Board in the name of honoring Twain&#8217;s dyspeptic take on school boards can&#8217;t help but hurt my chances of patching up the Board. I&#8217;m sure the board majority believes that &#8220;silence is golden.&#8221; But even the Superintendent has gotten into the act. Asked by the DNT about Art Johnston at the otherwise <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/content\/duluth-school-chief-zeroes-learning-gap-annual-school-review\">treacly annual report<\/a> Mr. Gronseth tried to distance the School Board from the working of the school system it is elected to oversee. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While not a part of the report, Gronseth said later that the conflicts resulting from the School Board&#8217;s investigation against member Art Johnston for an abuse of authority accusation, among others, were unfortunate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We try not to let the functioning of the board affect how the district is run,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like the Superintendent is seconding Mark Twain here.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, but like Dan Quayle&#8217;s potatoes Art Johnston has become the test of this Board. And woohoo,  the DNT has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/content\/duluth-school-boards-misconduct-probe-completed\">finally announced<\/a> the completion of the Rice Report. Excuse me while I read what the Trib reports about that&#8230;&#8230;..much blogging will follow I&#8217;m sure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m torn between my campaign&#8217;s vow of honesty (by spilling all the beans) and charting a different course for this school board. Every post&#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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12098"}],"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=12098"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19826,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12098\/revisions\/19826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}