{"id":1843,"date":"2009-03-20T08:06:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T13:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2009-03-20T10:20:02","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T15:20:02","slug":"school-boards-special-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1843","title":{"rendered":"School Board&#8217;s Special Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Rome burned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/115430\/group\/home\/\">Nero fiddled<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/InternetPics\/DilbertSpecialPlace.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/InternetPics\/DilbertSpecialPlace.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBlatantly copied from: <a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strips\/\">http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strips\/<\/a> March 15, 2009 Strip<\/p>\n<p>And since Nero loves the arts its worth looking back at her decision which was reported in March 10ths Trib.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Duluth School Board trims $3.6 million to reach budget approval<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under the approved budget, Ordean Middle School and Piedmont Elementary School will close in June, a year earlier than originally planned. <\/p>\n<p>By: Jana Hollingsworth, Duluth News Tribune <\/p>\n<p>The Duluth School Board voted Monday to close both Ordean Middle School and Piedmont Elementary School at the end of this school year, a year earlier than first planned.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of several cuts \u00e2\u20ac\u201d totaling about $3.6 million \u00e2\u20ac\u201d approved by the board as it set the final budget for the 2009-10 school year.<\/p>\n<p>Others include:<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00b7  <strong>A reduced instructional day for elementary schools, in which 15 minutes are cut from daily 45-minute art, music, physical education and media classes, saving the district $892,000 and reducing the number of teachers for the classes. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00b7  Nearly $1 million in cuts from the Secondary Technical Center, including the eighth-grade section with about 100 enrolled students. <\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00b7  Eliminating $550,000 worth of staff development time, pending teachers union approval. <\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00b7  Cutting $200,000 from the co- and extracurricular budget, possibly including fewer coach bus trips, raised participation fees and increased entry fees to games. <\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00b7  Combining the teen parent and habitat programs to save $84,000. <\/p>\n<p>All but board member Gary Glass voted to approve the budget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Rome burned Nero fiddled. Blatantly copied from: http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strips\/ March 15, 2009 Strip And since Nero loves the arts its worth looking back at&#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-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","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=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}