{"id":16055,"date":"2016-04-10T06:11:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T11:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16055"},"modified":"2016-04-10T06:24:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T11:24:56","slug":"16055","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16055","title":{"rendered":"Selling Central, Pro and Con from School Board members themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alanna Oswald&#8217;s pro sale view<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/a><strong>Duluth School Board Member&#8217;s View: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/opinion\/4006111-duluth-school-board-members-view-why-i-voted-sell-central-site-money-could-have\"><strong>Why I voted to sell Central site: Money could have helped bridge gap in finances<\/strong><\/a> It begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The public wants Central High School, with 77 acres, off the expense sheet of Independent School District 709. The Duluth Federation of Teachers feared the sudden windfall of $14.2 million was a trick. Duluth Public Schools Academy (aka Edison Schools) wanted a vacant school building. No real estate advice was given to School Board members as a whole, despite this member asking for it, before the vote was taken March 31 against selling Central.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Nora Sandstad&#8217;s anti-sale view<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Duluth School Board Member&#8217;s View: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/opinion\/4006110-duluth-school-board-members-view-why-i-voted-against-selling-central-site-long-term\"><\/strong> <strong>Why I voted against selling Central site: Long-term losses would harm schools<\/strong><\/a> It begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a member of the Independent School District 709 Duluth Public School Board, I voted on March 31 not to sell the Central High School site so it could be used as a new charter high school. I made this decision after gathering a lot of information, considering the perspectives of hundreds of concerned citizens, and evaluating whether such a sale would be in the best interest of the ISD 709 community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alanna Oswald&#8217;s pro sale view Duluth School Board Member&#8217;s View: Why I voted to sell Central site: Money could have helped bridge gap in&#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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16055"}],"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=16055"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16061,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16055\/revisions\/16061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}