{"id":16793,"date":"2016-05-12T13:06:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T18:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16793"},"modified":"2016-05-13T14:57:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:57:20","slug":"an-email-request-i-sent-for-information-on-a-potential-1-5-million-pot-of-money-isd-709-may-be-elibible-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16793","title":{"rendered":"An email request I sent for information on a potential $1.5 million pot of money ISD 709 may be eligible for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To William Hanson and the School Board:<\/p>\n<p>For our discussion on budgeting and finance on Monday I would like to discuss Minnesota&#8217;s Q-Comp program. I have been told that ISD 709 would be eligible for about one and a half million dollars of financing should we take advantage of this. It would be a ripe issue for discussion at the Quality Steering Committee and we should discuss this at our Committee of the Whole..<\/p>\n<p>I see that there is an August deadline for application to it. <a href=\"http:\/\/education.state.mn.us\/MDE\/SchSup\/QComp\/\">http:\/\/education.state.mn.us\/MDE\/SchSup\/QComp\/ <\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nI also understand that many of our neighboring school district&#8217;s avail themselves of this extra financing. It was, perhaps still is, controversial with teacher&#8217;s unions because it is &#8220;merit pay.&#8221; It requires some accountability and teacher&#8217;s unions have been suspicious of who and how this accountability is assessed.   <\/p>\n<p>I can understand. I was held accountable by the union leading to <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16219\">a recent complaint<\/a> by the union against me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To William Hanson and the School Board: For our discussion on budgeting and finance on Monday I would like to discuss Minnesota&#8217;s Q-Comp program&#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":[],"class_list":["post-16793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duluth-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16793","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=16793"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16823,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16793\/revisions\/16823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}