{"id":21500,"date":"2017-04-12T15:10:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T20:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=21500"},"modified":"2017-04-12T15:14:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T20:14:02","slug":"21500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=21500","title":{"rendered":"Another lost opportunity to sell an empty school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jana Hollingsworth was busy yesterday. She also updated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/education\/4249286-school-board-set-vote-rockridge-elementary\">the news on the Rockridge School<\/a> which the District once hoped to sell for about a million dollars to defray the cost of the Red Plan. Today it looks like instead we will be fixing it for use by the Woodland Hills School at a cost to the district of about $2.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>About all I can do about this is swallow hard. I agree that we have little choice but to proceed although Alanna Oswald has made a case that using the empty Secondary Technical Center Building (next to the empty Central High) might have made more sense if we&#8217;d considered it earlier. The Board never had that discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Exercising 20&#215;20 hindsight on the Red Plan I would simply say that the Board of that era never seemed to consider that any of its rosy plans might ever come to grief. That&#8217;s the power and the fallibility of rose-tinted glasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jana Hollingsworth was busy yesterday. She also updated the news on the Rockridge School which the District once hoped to sell for about a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21500"}],"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=21500"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21505,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21500\/revisions\/21505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}