{"id":12953,"date":"2015-02-23T13:09:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12953"},"modified":"2015-02-23T13:09:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:09:35","slug":"catching-up-upon-my-return-from-eden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12953","title":{"rendered":"Catching up upon my return from Eden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently our Duluth School Board&#8217;s crusade to excommunicate Art Johnston is not the only thing that has caught the State legislature&#8217;s attention this year. Our Denfeld teachers have gotten <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdio.com\/article\/stories\/s3712897.shtml\">wider notice<\/a> while I was out of Duluth and blissfully ignorant:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Chuck Wiger (DFL-Maplewood) says he is responding to the concerns of 24 Duluth Denfeld teachers. A letter written to school administrators, according to Wiger, says that students are being passed to the next class or grade level without passing grades<br \/>\n&#8220;You probably do more of a disservice by continually promoting someone if at some point they&#8217;re lost,&#8221; said Sen. Wiger in a phoner interview on Friday. &#8220;Then, inevitably, when you go to the workforce if you&#8217;re not prepared, then we have failed as a system.<br \/>\nThe bill will be introduced Monday and then reviewed by the Senate Education Committee in the coming weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But apparently, according to the District, we are already addressing the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently our Duluth School Board&#8217;s crusade to excommunicate Art Johnston is not the only thing that has caught the State legislature&#8217;s attention this year&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-school-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=12953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12954,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12953\/revisions\/12954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}