{"id":3121,"date":"2010-07-14T08:32:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T13:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3121"},"modified":"2010-07-14T08:32:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T13:32:02","slug":"five-day-tim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3121","title":{"rendered":"Five Day Tim?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Two Harbors request to implement a four-day school week has been denied for a second time by the State. After the first rebuff Supt. Minkininnen (sp) expressed confidence that Two Harbors had satisfied the Dept. of Ed&#8217;s demands. Apparently not.<\/p>\n<p>Two Harbors is suffering from reduced state education spending like many other districts. This has been compounded by angry voters who, after ponying up for a big new high school, discovered the District <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1727\">couldn&#8217;t afford to run it <\/a>so that they had to do things like close the swimming pool during the winter. As a consequence they have continued to vote against locally raised operational levies. (An ironic consequence of this was the discontinuation of a contract with Johnson Controls)<\/p>\n<p>Switching to the massively inconvenient (for parents) four day school week was a drastic means of husbanding District resources. Two Harbors is not the first district to gravitate toward a short school week but helping the District save money may no longer be a top priority for the Pawlenty Administration.<\/p>\n<p>I have a hunch that as our Governor stalks the nation looking for support for his Presidential campaign its occurred to him that news of a spate of &#8220;underfunded&#8221; schools seeking four-day school weeks could prove an embarrassment. It will be interesting to see if Two Harbors attempts to shorten their school week yet again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Two Harbors request to implement a four-day school week has been denied for a second time by the State. After the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121"}],"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=3121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}