{"id":3970,"date":"2011-09-04T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2011-09-04T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T20:37:14","slug":"with-nixon-gone-and-many-schools-nearing-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3970","title":{"rendered":"With Dixon gone and many schools nearing completion&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;it appears that some of the lost 10% of our students are returing. This is an abbreviated account from information sent to the School Board.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Duluth Public School ISD 709<br \/>\nSOURCES OF NEW REVENUE PROJECTIONS<br \/>\n2011-12<\/p>\n<p>INCREASED STUDENT ENROLLMENT REVENUE<br \/>\n$500,000.00<\/p>\n<p>Good News! It appears that students are coming back to Duluth Public schools.<br \/>\nStudent enrollment is up across the school district.<\/p>\n<p>As of 8\/30\/2011:<br \/>\nElementary Enrollment has jumped from 3,892 to 3,956<br \/>\nAn increase of 64<\/p>\n<p>Middle School enrollment has jumped from 1,708 to 1,711<br \/>\nAn increase of 3 <\/p>\n<p>High School Enrollment has jumped from 2,829 to 3,078<br \/>\nAn increase of 189 <\/p>\n<p>More Good News!<\/p>\n<p>A change in the Average Daily Membership formula for the year will give the District an additional $500,000.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An insider tells me that this means that the additional money for teachers will reduce class sizes from 40 to 30 in some schools and from 35 to 25 in others. It doesn&#8217;t hurt that the Trib keeps publishing<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/208465\/publisher_ID\/36\/\"> positive stories<\/a> about our new schools. Thank goodness our schools aren&#8217;t like Excelsior Energy or St. Lukes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;it appears that some of the lost 10% of our students are returing. This is an abbreviated account from information sent to the School&#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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970"}],"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=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}