An email being circulated in Let Duluth Vote Circles<\/p>\n
Today we hear that the District just purchased a motel, that previously was not scheduled to be purchased, for either 400,000 or 500,000. (either way, a heck of a lot of money) Lets consider that the District is being truthful when they say that they are closing Ordean and Piedmont early because of budget cuts (and not because it makes it easier for them to rush ahead of schedule on those two schools without pesky students being in their way)<\/p>\n
If this is the case, let’s see what 500,000 might “buy” the District if they had 500,000 more (which they don’t now, because they are busy buying up motels that currently are housing people who have no where else to go). I also hear the small business on the corner is interested in selling since the offers seem to be so generous!<\/p>\n
Just how far does 500,000 go?<\/p>\n
EST. SAVINGS EST. INCREASE
\nEliminate General Fund support for Co\/extracurricular programs $1,100,000
\nAthletic\/Extra-curricular offerings reduced to two HS $250,000
\nAdditional staff development reduction 50% $550,000
\nIncrease class size by one $1,176,000
\nEliminate 8th grade option STC $232,000
\nFund STC from ratio $940,800
\nTransportation services reduced to state guidelines $300,000
\nAccelerate school closing schedule $1,700,000
\nReduce Middle School allocation by 3.5 FTE $294,000
\nReduce administrative positions $100,000
\nCharge space cost to discretionary programs – $100,000
\nReduce ESL program – $84,000
\nCombine teen parent and habitat programs – $84,000
\nReduce elementary school day 15 minutes $840,000
\nChange Middle School from 7 to 6 period day $901,000
\nElementary Day \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Shorten by 15 minutes $840,000
\nEliminate the High School zero hour $252,000
\nLengthen School Day and Reduce # of School Days $864,000<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An email being circulated in Let Duluth Vote Circles Today we hear that the District just purchased a motel, that previously was not scheduled…<\/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-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","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=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}