{"id":1413,"date":"2008-08-22T23:56:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T04:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2008-08-22T23:57:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T04:57:20","slug":"what-if-we-spend-half-a-billion-to-attract-new-students-and-they-dont-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1413","title":{"rendered":"What if we spend half a billion to attract new students and they don&#8217;t come?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is apparently was one of the goals of the Milwaukee&#8217;s boondogle. If the Duluth School Board thinks their new schools will win back Edison students even if they win the November levy and don&#8217;t have to cut eleven million from the classroom, the Milwaukee example ought to give them pause.<\/p>\n<p>From an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=784940\">online discussion <\/a>in the Sentinel Journal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q: Joseph of Milwaukee &#8211; Dave, in your series the impact of choice and charter school programs on MPS performance was raised again. I know that studies so far have been somewhat inconclusive, but what is your personal opinion about how choice and charter programs have impacted MPS&#8217; woes that you have written about?<\/p>\n<p>A: Dave Umhoefer &#8211; Joseph: No one cares about my personal opinion, but I can tell you that in our reporting it was obvious that a lot of MPS officials believe choice and charter schools are getting a lot of the kids that used to go to MPS. I&#8217;m sure there are as many reasons for that as there are parents making the decision. What&#8217;s striking is that in some neighborhoods there are multiple schools right next to each other, all competing &#8212; using public tax dollars &#8212; for the same children. Competition is the idea, of course. But right now it&#8217;s a battle for children, and there are winners and losers and therefore empty classrooms. More schools will close, new choice and charter schools will open and some will close. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is apparently was one of the goals of the Milwaukee&#8217;s boondogle. If the Duluth School Board thinks their new schools will win back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413"}],"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=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}