{"id":1614,"date":"2009-01-08T13:13:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T18:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2009-01-08T13:40:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T18:40:31","slug":"new-board-chair-to-put-pieces-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1614","title":{"rendered":"Board Chair to put pieces together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s January reorganizational meeting of the Duluth School Board had twenty-five speakers in the audience ready to give the Board a piece of their minds. Normally no one addresses the Board during these short meetings but the Board arranged to meet with the crowd after the meeting. <\/p>\n<p>I was there because I had heard, as others apparently had, that we would be able to address the Board. When I learned that I couldn&#8217;t speak I decided to stay only until a new Board Chair was elected. I leaned over to my seatmate and told them what was painfully obvious to me &#8211; that Tim Grover would be the next Chairman. <\/p>\n<p>No other board member is up to the challenge temperamentally or otherwise. Tim was treated like a traitor while he worked with LDV but now all the other Board members and the Superintendent are depending on him to keep the Red Plan on track. I don&#8217;t have to tell you how this makes most members of Let Duluth Vote feel.<\/p>\n<p>Just how hard it will be for Tim comes across in this statement that he gave to the Trib: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/108971\/\">brief mention <\/a>of the change of leadership the next day. He said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have a lot of work to do, particularly in the next few months,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Grover said. He noted the pending board discussions on a revised construction schedule and boundary line for the long-range facilities plan. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are a lot of pieces that still need to be put together.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember Humpty Dumpty?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s January reorganizational meeting of the Duluth School Board had twenty-five speakers in the audience ready to give the Board a piece of&#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":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","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=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}