{"id":1980,"date":"2009-04-20T12:58:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T17:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2009-04-20T13:02:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T18:02:33","slug":"speaking-of-not-telling-the-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1980","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of not telling the Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/118012\/\">This story in last week&#8217;s Trib<\/a> <strong>&#8220;Plan for separate sixth-grade school deep-sixed&#8221;<\/strong> announced the District&#8217;s plans. <\/p>\n<p>Mind you the School Board has not voted on this. That&#8217;s unnecessary for this Board because the Board has given the Administration the power to make all the decisions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/118138\/\">as Gary Glass notes in his letter to the editor today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Duluth School Board members have ignored policies and relinquished authority to Superintendent Keith Dixon to do what he wishes in implementing the $407 million red plan without a public vote. . . Relinquishment occurred June 19, 2007, with the authorization of the red plan, the resolution stating: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Commence any other appropriate action to implement this Long-range Facilities Plan.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yup, Its sort of like those old westerns where the cowboys have to put their holsters and guns in the corner when they come into a court room or a church. Only in this case the Board members just put their brains in a big bucket until their term of office is over. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story in last week&#8217;s Trib &#8220;Plan for separate sixth-grade school deep-sixed&#8221; announced the District&#8217;s plans. Mind you the School Board has not voted&#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\/1980"}],"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=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}