{"id":8551,"date":"2013-02-12T15:42:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T20:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8551"},"modified":"2017-02-27T13:42:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T18:42:18","slug":"isd-709-continues-to-cannibalize-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8551","title":{"rendered":"ISD 709 continues to cannibalize itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/258425\/\">From today&#8217;s<\/a> DNT:<\/p>\n<p>What would happen if we sent the kids who couldn&#8217;t make it at Denfeld and East back from the alternative program at Unity?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A lot of them really struggle with crowded situations,&#8221; member and former Denfeld principal Bill Westholm said of the students, who typically attend Unity because they didn&#8217;t do well at one of the larger high schools. &#8220;If we don&#8217;t do that one absolutely right it would cause more problems for some students than would be worth the gains.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This will be done to save about $300,000. But for every student who decides to hell with it I&#8217;m dropping out the District will lose about $6,000 a year. Lose 10 students and instead of $300.000 savings it will be $240,000. Lose 50 kids and there are no savings at all plus the jobs of a couple more teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s DNT: What would happen if we sent the kids who couldn&#8217;t make it at Denfeld and East back from the alternative program&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551"}],"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=8551"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20084,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551\/revisions\/20084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}