{"id":5968,"date":"2012-02-14T11:38:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T16:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5968"},"modified":"2012-02-14T11:39:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T16:39:08","slug":"downward-spiral-in-the-duluth-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5968","title":{"rendered":"Downward spiral of the Duluth Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And we haven&#8217;t yet<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/222766\/\"> hit bottom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now that they decided to give us the Red Plan without your input they would like your help making the next round of cuts. Among the options:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The board has to make about $4.8 million in cuts to its budget, which will get final approval in June. Items being considered include:<\/p>\n<p>Increase employee health insurance contribution to gain about<br \/>\n$1.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Raise eligibility level for health insurance to gain about $1.5 million.<br \/>\nFreeze all salaries.<\/p>\n<p>Eliminate all-day kindergarten for about $630,000.<\/p>\n<p>Increase the student-to-teacher staffing ratio for $1.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Reduce the number of elementary specialists for $1.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Restructure the middle school day from seven periods to six to save about $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Four-day school week beginning fall 2013 to save $700,000.<\/p>\n<p>Reduce special education expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Restructure high school day.<\/p>\n<p>Reduce administrative, non-classroom support and business services staff.<\/p>\n<p>Change transportation guidelines for middle and elementary school to save $420,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry. If your favorite cut doesn&#8217;t make it in this round it surely will next year when they no longer have the cushion of a reserve fund to draw from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And we haven&#8217;t yet hit bottom. Now that they decided to give us the Red Plan without your input they would like your help&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968"}],"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=5968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5970,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions\/5970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}