{"id":2681,"date":"2009-10-24T06:03:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T11:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2017-03-02T11:55:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T16:55:11","slug":"plan-b-educationally-and-economically-advisable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2681","title":{"rendered":"Plan B &#8220;educationally and economically advisable&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last thing the Minnesota Dept of Education has to say about Let Duluth Vote&#8217;s Plan B in the OK it handed out a week ago. Its what Dr. Dixon has been sitting on while he tried to come up with an angle which might plausibly undermine the alternative in the public&#8217;s eye.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Based upon the department&#8217;s analysis of the school district&#8217;s required documentation and other pertinent information from sources of the Minnesota Department of Education, the Commissioner of Education judges the proposed construction to be educationally and economically advisable.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After a year of dithering, double dealing, stalling, undermining, ridiculing, sandbagging, and misrepresenting Plan B the School District has to eat a lot of crow feathers and all. I have always hated Plan B but I&#8217;m thrilled.<\/p>\n<p>Plan B was like putting a ball and chain on a runner and making him\/her compete with a kid who took steroids. It had to be based on the 75 words of a petition that was written two years ago which made some sense then but less sense as the Red Plan rampaged across our City.<\/p>\n<p>As Art Johnston, one of the principal architects of Plan B said recently, (and he&#8217;s an engineer not an architect) there will have to be changes to it. Fortunately, the referendum on it is non-binding. By the time it is voted on real voters will have made it clear whether they support or oppose the Red Plan by casting their votes on the Duluth School Board. If they keep the incumbents they will have endorsed the Red Plan. If they kick the old Board out any vote on Plan B will be strictly anticlimactic.<\/p>\n<p>I hope the new Board, assuming as I do that its majority will change, will begin working on another plan, a plan C that merges what can&#8217;t be stopped in the Red Plan with the most sensible elements of Plan B. <\/p>\n<p>For nearly two decades I&#8217;ve advocated two high schools. I&#8217;d start by offering a Plan C referendum built around a two high school system if I was on the School Board. <\/p>\n<p>Thank Goodness I won&#8217;t be. I&#8217;ll be writing my Book as its last chapters are working themselves out in real time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last thing the Minnesota Dept of Education has to say about Let Duluth Vote&#8217;s Plan B in the OK it handed&#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\/2681"}],"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=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20658,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/20658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}