{"id":3227,"date":"2010-08-12T09:03:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T14:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2017-03-01T17:22:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T22:22:35","slug":"our-schools-arent-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3227","title":{"rendered":"Our Schools aren&#8217;t failing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the contention of yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/176027\/group\/Opinion\/\">Trib editorial <\/a>which tried to give context to the unhappy results of the MCA test results for Duluth&#8217;s school children.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No, our schools aren&#8217;t failing or lousy, no matter what might be suggested by Adequate Yearly Progress reports. But improvements obviously are needed. An entire community can come together &#8211; and can work together &#8211; to help all students succeed<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I told a person who emailed me about this the Trib, having backed the Red Plan, now owns the school district&#8217;s test results. Those results will forever (twenty years anyway) be linked to the Red Plan&#8217;s mortar.<\/p>\n<p>So far the results aren&#8217;t encouraging: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/176019\/publisher_ID\/36\/\">Duluth schools fail state standards for yearly progress<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the contention of yesterday&#8217;s Trib editorial which tried to give context to the unhappy results of the MCA test results for Duluth&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duluth-schools","category-education","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=3227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20527,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions\/20527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}