{"id":2869,"date":"2010-03-17T19:12:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T00:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2869"},"modified":"2010-03-17T19:12:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T00:12:51","slug":"district-financial-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2869","title":{"rendered":"District financial planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A supporter just sent me a little evidence that the plan to adopt all day kindergarten is a Hail Mary Pass. According to an October 8 story written as a scare tactic to help sell an operational levy in 2008:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>IF WE REJECT THE LEVY<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>No School (with a picture of a Jan 2010 calendar)<\/p>\n<p>No band \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Busing cuts \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Shorter days \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>And then in a sidebar:<\/p>\n<p><strong>At a glance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Duluth school district officials released a list of potential cuts and adjustments that could be made to save money next school year if the operation levy up for renewal in November fails.<\/p>\n<p>Among the proposals:<\/p>\n<p>A monthlong break in January to save on heating costs and other expenses.<br \/>\nA four-day school week to save on transportation, energy and support staff costs.<br \/>\nShortening the elementary school day by reducing time students spend in art, music and physical education.<br \/>\nCutting or combining extra-curricular activities, including athletics.<br \/>\nEliminating the optional zero-hour classes at the high schools.<br \/>\nEliminating  Secondary Technical Center programs for eight-grade students.<br \/>\nTightening busing eligibility standards.<br \/>\nClosing Central High School earlier than called for under the long-range facilities plan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Its a little hard to believe with these sorts of threats that the District would decide to spend a million bucks on a goodie like All day K.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it was just a scare tactic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A supporter just sent me a little evidence that the plan to adopt all day kindergarten is a Hail Mary Pass. According to an&#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\/2869"}],"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=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}