{"id":6529,"date":"2012-03-07T07:14:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T12:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6529"},"modified":"2017-02-27T20:41:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T01:41:43","slug":"but-we-have-such-wonderful-new-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6529","title":{"rendered":"But we have such wonderful new schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/224930\/\">Red Ink Plan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some of the district&#8217;s proposed cuts include:<\/p>\n<p>Going from seven periods to six at the middle schools, saving about<br \/>\n$1 million and requiring contractual negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Laying off 18 full-time equivalent elementary specialist positions, which include art, physical education and music, saving about $1.6 million.<br \/>\nReducing special services expenses to save $634,500.<br \/>\nLimiting high school students to six classes per school day to save $90,000.<br \/>\nReducing transportation costs via scheduling to save $180,000.<br \/>\nReducing school administrator positions to save $124,000.<br \/>\nCuts to middle school music instruction to save $180,000.<br \/>\nEliminate the teen parent program to save $110,000.<br \/>\nEliminate the Kinder Korner program to save $18,000.<br \/>\nForgo a legal adviser at board meetings to save $6,300.<br \/>\nReduce athletics\/activities at middle schools to save $70,000.<br \/>\nCut courses that have too few students to save $180,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More on the Red Ink Plan: Some of the district&#8217;s proposed cuts include: Going from seven periods to six at the middle schools, saving&#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-6529","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\/6529","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=6529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20196,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions\/20196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}