{"id":5549,"date":"2012-01-26T22:29:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T03:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5549"},"modified":"2012-01-26T23:01:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T04:01:14","slug":"16-increase-in-the-cost-of-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5549","title":{"rendered":"16% increase in the cost of health insurance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what one of the TV news stations just reported was going to happen to the Duluth School District&#8217;s budget next year.  I think it was Fox 21. KBJR is reporting an anticipated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northlandsnewscenter.com\/news\/education\/Duluth-School-Board-To-Make-Huge-Cuts-For-48-Million-Deficit-138174764.html\">$3.8 million cut<\/a> but doesn&#8217;t mention the insurance. Ann Wasson dredges up the hoary old &#8220;low hanging fruit&#8221; cliche but she&#8217;s one of the Board members who never questioned the cost of the health package agreed to in the last set of contracts. <\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3296\">not a surprise<\/a> to a select few of us.<\/p>\n<p>Its nothing that adding a couple more kids in each classroom can&#8217;t solve.<\/p>\n<p>If the District is really into &#8220;transparency&#8221; I know a couple of bureaucrats whose departure might help bring that about. <\/p>\n<p>Ah, ten minutes ago Fox put up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox21online.com\/?q=news\/duluth-school-district-38-million-red-2013\">transcript<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/221106\/group\/homepage\/\">DNT story<\/a> doesn&#8217;t mention insurance increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what one of the TV news stations just reported was going to happen to the Duluth School District&#8217;s budget next year. I think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,84,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duluth-schools","category-economics","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549","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=5549"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5551,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions\/5551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}