{"id":7470,"date":"2012-09-13T22:26:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T03:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7470"},"modified":"2017-02-27T19:31:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T00:31:04","slug":"first-the-good-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7470","title":{"rendered":"First the Good news"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/243049\/publisher_ID\/36\/\">Duluth&#8217;s <strong>Laura MacArthur Elementary<\/strong><\/a> and Proctor&#8217;s Bay View Elementary will receive in total over the next three years <strong>$1.3 million<\/strong> and $1.7 million, respectively, to do things such as hire more teachers and support staff and pay for teacher development. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then the Bad news:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The schools were labeled &#8220;priority schools&#8221; by the Minnesota Department of Education, which means they are among the 5 percent lowest-performing schools in the state for student achievement. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I was on the School Board Laura MacArthur was a school that ranked poorly but I don&#8217;t think it ever descended much below the 30th percentile in Minnesota elementary school performance. 5 percent is hideous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duluth&#8217;s Laura MacArthur Elementary and Proctor&#8217;s Bay View Elementary will receive in total over the next three years $1.3 million and $1.7 million, respectively,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duluth-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470","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=7470"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20154,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions\/20154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}