{"id":4086,"date":"2011-09-28T22:46:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T03:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4086"},"modified":"2011-09-28T22:55:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T03:55:17","slug":"occams-razor-meets-isd-709s-enrollment-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4086","title":{"rendered":"Occam&#8217;s Razor meets ISD 709&#8217;s enrollment data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve made the story about the Duluth School District&#8217;s enrollment data far too complicated. Let&#8217;s simplify.<\/p>\n<p>The District says it arbitrarily subtracted 300 students from last year&#8217;s enrollment to project this fall&#8217;s enrollment. This year&#8217;s projection was 8,429 so when you add back the arbitrarily 300 subtracted students it must mean that last year&#8217;s enrollment was 8,729. <\/p>\n<p>The District says that this year&#8217;s enrollment is 8,711 which is 18 students fewer than last year&#8217;s enrollment. That&#8217;s the change. There is no increase of 282 students. There is only a further decrease of 18 students. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s better than the 300 students lost annually in recent years but its hardly a reason to reelect incumbent school board members.<\/p>\n<p>Heck, they should all be fired for submitting such a poor example of math homework to the public. I sure hope its not the DNT that hands out their grades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve made the story about the Duluth School District&#8217;s enrollment data far too complicated. Let&#8217;s simplify. The District says it arbitrarily subtracted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,17,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086"}],"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=4086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}