{"id":8275,"date":"2013-01-15T07:19:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T12:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8275"},"modified":"2017-02-27T14:07:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T19:07:21","slug":"pay-no-attention-to-the-red-man-behind-the-curtain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8275","title":{"rendered":"Pay no attention to the Red Man behind the curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/255643\/\">From today&#8217;s DNT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some teachers and principals reported class sizes this school year in the upper 40s in middle and high school classes and<br \/>\nmid-30s in elementary school classes. Class sizes were the largest they had ever been in Duluth, longtime teachers said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Board members expressed frustration at the reappearance of many options.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would make a huge mistake by getting rid of elementary specialists,&#8221; said Judy Seliga Punyko. &#8220;That&#8217;s the one thing that every other district has around us.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the School Board&#8217;s long list of possible ugly cuts is the all-day kindergarten that the District should never have implemented because it didn&#8217;t have the money. Luckily (potentially) for the District, the state legislature will consider funding all-day Kindergarten statewide this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s DNT: Some teachers and principals reported class sizes this school year in the upper 40s in middle and high school classes and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,102,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275"}],"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=8275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20099,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275\/revisions\/20099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}