{"id":1445,"date":"2008-09-10T09:45:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T14:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2008-09-10T10:01:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T15:01:57","slug":"a-bad-decision-is-better-than-no-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1445","title":{"rendered":"The enrollment numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The graphic accompanying <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1444\">the story <\/a>only showed the enrollment growth or shrinkage of other area school districts. It didn&#8217;t show Duluth&#8217;s initial enrollment for 2008. I can&#8217;t imagine the District is eager to reveal them before the referendum on the levy.<\/p>\n<p>These are the figures for other Districts from 2007 to 2008<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cloquet             up +180 students<br \/>\nHermantown       up + 16 students<br \/>\nProctor              up + 65 students (Proctor is now sending busses into Piedmont and the West End)<br \/>\nLake Superior  down &#8211; 35 students<br \/>\nEsko                  up + 27 students<br \/>\nWernshall            up +5 students<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was one Duluth enrollment figure that was published in an effort I suppose to show that high school students are rushing to East. It was the high school numbers. They weren&#8217;t good.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Denfeld           down &#8211; 68<br \/>\nCentral           down &#8211; 22<br \/>\nEast                  up +24<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This seems to bear out our prediction that folks out west will avoid sending their children to schools saturated with minorities and poorer children. Coupled with additional operational cuts this out migration will speed up. The total enrollment loss at our high schools from last year is 66 students. If budget cuts go into effect in the second half of the year following a defeated levy some families may not wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The graphic accompanying the story only showed the enrollment growth or shrinkage of other area school districts. It didn&#8217;t show Duluth&#8217;s initial enrollment for&#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\/1445"}],"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=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}