{"id":3286,"date":"2010-10-06T00:46:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T05:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2017-03-01T17:14:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T22:14:43","slug":"not-so-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3286","title":{"rendered":"Not so special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I happen to like the Duluth&#8217;s School District&#8217;s Special Ed leadership. Evidently they have been having a hard time of it with all the shuffling.<\/p>\n<p>From the Trib <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/180287\/\">a couple days ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kudos to School Board member Art Johnson for his Sept. 21 commentary, &#8220;Dixon, Grover fail schools with their lack of accountability, openness and integrity.&#8221; Johnston can attest to problem areas of the School Board; I can attest to those issues and how they affect children, especially those on Individualized Education Plans or IEPs.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Keith Dixon stated at the start of his current job that he has a child with special needs and thus special education was his interest. This doesn&#8217;t seem true. His main focus seems to be new buildings. Direct-care services for kids on IEPs aren&#8217;t being provided and school has started.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no room at Central High School for some special-education staff and\/or classrooms. Some students have to go outside and across the parking lot and roadway to get to the secondary center.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happen to like the Duluth&#8217;s School District&#8217;s Special Ed leadership. Evidently they have been having a hard time of it with all 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":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286"}],"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=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20519,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions\/20519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}