{"id":1794,"date":"2009-03-04T23:11:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T04:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2017-03-02T19:50:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T00:50:49","slug":"the-gov-and-his-ed-sec-mind-meld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1794","title":{"rendered":"The Gov and Ed Commissioner mind meld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No one can say that Governor Pawlenty isn&#8217;t backing up his Education Commissioner. Here&#8217;s his email reply on the Red Plan. I think the word is &#8220;verbatim.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ms. Victim of the Duluth School Board [not the Gov&#8217;s actual words]<\/p>\n<p> <em>Thank you for your correspondence <\/em>to Governor Pawlenty regarding the Duluth Public Schools &#8220;Red Plan.&#8221;  He has asked me to respond. <\/p>\n<p> <em>Minnesota state law gives the locally elected independent board of school districts authority and responsibility to conduct school district business as it relates to school facilities.   <\/p>\n<p> Ultimately, I encourage the people of Duluth to work together at the local level to resolve the issues around the district&#8217;s facilities.  <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you for contacting <\/em>the Governor with your concerns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one can say that Governor Pawlenty isn&#8217;t backing up his Education Commissioner. Here&#8217;s his email reply on the Red Plan. I think the&#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\/1794"}],"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=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20811,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/20811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}