{"id":12869,"date":"2015-02-11T15:30:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T20:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12869"},"modified":"2015-02-11T15:33:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T20:33:24","slug":"a-better-idea-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12869","title":{"rendered":"A better idea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the Edison Board <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/education\/3676375-duluth-edison-board-votes-pursue-new-high-school\">voted to pursue a high school<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a big deal and my next post will explain what I told our School Board about Edison at last night&#8217;s School Board <em>Committee of the Whole<\/em> to discuss next year&#8217;s Budget.<\/p>\n<p>I wondered why the Trib&#8217;s education reporter was absent from our meeting but today&#8217;s story answered this question. Jana has a nose for news and Edison was the place to be not that our meeting was unworthy of coverage. The DNT just doesn&#8217;t have the people to cover us like it did when I served on the Board eleven years ago. Back then it had two reporters dedicated to all things educational.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically an Edison parent came over a few minutes ago to do some work for us and told us she was thrilled with the decision. I&#8217;m not surprised. She recognized my name but she wasn&#8217;t sure who I was. Good. I need all the humility I can muster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the Edison Board voted to pursue a high school. This is a big deal and my next post will explain what I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,35,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869"}],"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=12869"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12873,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869\/revisions\/12873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}