{"id":3052,"date":"2010-06-16T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T16:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2010-06-16T11:08:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T16:08:25","slug":"red-plan-titanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3052","title":{"rendered":"Red Plan = Titanic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s story about the 22 laid off tenured teachers provoked a friend to put together a little enrollment research: This is very much in line with figures <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2174\">I found last year<\/a> but its more current. This was part of the email I was sent and its pretty arresting. The author of the email wishes that: &#8220;the media had the integrity to examine the<br \/>\nnumbers and not let those statements [about why the tenured teachers are being laid off] stand alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Plus as previously noted the plan is increasing in cost. More money, higher taxes, fewer teachers, fewer students.  We better get some darned good schools out of the Red Plan. And the School Board authorized another one at Wheeler Field last night which we can soon look to for more cost overruns should history repeat itself.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side Board member Ann Wasson expressed regrets about all the teachers getting canned&#8230;&#8230;..even though controlling expenses was supposedly a major incentive for proceeding with the plan. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here&#8217;s the figures collected so far <\/p>\n<p>There were 85 students that open enrolled INTO the Duluth Public Schools in<br \/>\n2008\/2009 &#8211; this figure was down 25 from the year before <\/p>\n<p>There are 428 students that open enrolled OUT of the Duluth Public Schools to<br \/>\nOutlining Districts such as Hermantown, Proctor, Lake Superior, Cloquet etc. &#8211;<br \/>\nthis figure is up 75 students from the year before <\/p>\n<p>In Addition to the 428 students who are open enrolling out of the District,<br \/>\nthere are also<br \/>\n243 students ages 7-16 who are home schooled.  (there are many more, but the MDE<br \/>\ndoes not keep track of the numbers for students under 7)<br \/>\n950 students that go to the Edison Schools &#8211; They have a waiting list presently<br \/>\n172 students at Lakeview<br \/>\n418 students at Marshall<br \/>\n425 students at  the Catholic Schools &#8211; St James, St Johns, Holy Rosary, St<br \/>\nMichaels <\/p>\n<p>This total is over<br \/>\n2630 students Who are Not Choosing ISD 709 Schools for their students. <\/p>\n<p>In Addition, I did not include students that are going to the following Schools <\/p>\n<p>Chester Creek Academy<br \/>\nMerrit Creek Academy<br \/>\nHarbor City<br \/>\nMontessori School<br \/>\nSummit School<br \/>\nStone Ridge School<br \/>\nNorthshor Community School\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s story about the 22 laid off tenured teachers provoked a friend to put together a little enrollment research: This is very much in&#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\/3052"}],"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=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}