{"id":22054,"date":"2017-05-29T10:11:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22054"},"modified":"2017-05-29T10:11:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:11:37","slug":"how-the-proposed-education-funding-law-will-affect-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22054","title":{"rendered":"How the proposed Education funding law will affect negotiations."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the school year grinds to its end <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/4274197-education-funding-union-urges-veto\">a story appeared<\/a> in the DNT about the Education budget that will have a significant impact on teacher negotiations. The following paragraph sounds optimistic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nEach of the two years, schools will get a 2 percent increase in the per-pupil funding formula that pays for general operations. There is also $50 million for a new preschool program called &#8220;School Readiness Plus,&#8221; which prioritizes low-income students, as well as $20 million more for early-learning scholarships.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But a few short paragraphs beyond it come calls from the teachers union for Governor Dayton to veto the bill. There is a Republican inspired language allowing Districts more freedom in hiring teachers without the professional degrees and giving District Administrators more power to keep on and\/or release teachers without bending to their seniority.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not read the actual language so its hard for me to gauge just how serious a threat to tenure and seniority this law would be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the school year grinds to its end a story appeared in the DNT about the Education budget that will have a significant impact&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22054"}],"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=22054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22055,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22054\/revisions\/22055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}