{"id":4868,"date":"2011-12-21T10:54:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T15:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2017-02-28T09:32:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T14:32:50","slug":"foresight-vs-hindsight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4868","title":{"rendered":"Foresight vs. Hindsight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foresight = <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2800\">LincolnDemocrat<\/a> Feb. 10, 2010:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr. Dixon made it sound like the programming he was willing to trim was not all that important. I&#8217;d like to know why, if his proposed cuts aren&#8217;t that important, they haven&#8217;t already been made. For crying out loud the story makes clear that the District is facing a $4.5 million dollars shortfall. That&#8217;s a terrific obstacle for any new spending.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was one of several posts that popped up in my  search engine for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?s=red+plan+calamity\">Red Plan calamity<\/a>:&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hindsight =<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/217843\/group\/Opinion\/\"> Duluth News Tribune<\/a> Dec. 21, 2011:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The body blows just keep landing against the Duluth school district, don&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n<p>Education leaders in our community long have been absorbing criticism and outright vehemence over a long-needed yet controversial new-construction and school building-upgrade plan. The angst grew deafeningly louder in June when the price tag to local taxpayers leaped from $296 million to $311 million&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Also this month, news broke that the district&#8217;s once-robust $14.7 million reserve fund, its money in the bank, had shrunk by more than half to about $6.8 million. Board Clerk Tim Grover understated the feelings of many in the district when he called the news &#8220;distressing.&#8221; In a letter to the editor on today&#8217;s page, former Superintendent Mark Myles goes further, calling the spend-down &#8220;shocking,&#8221; even if the district is blaming it largely on an inability to sell surplus school property.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foresight = LincolnDemocrat Feb. 10, 2010: Dr. Dixon made it sound like the programming he was willing to trim was not all that important&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,102,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duluth-schools","category-jci","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868","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=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20280,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions\/20280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}