{"id":9253,"date":"2013-08-14T18:44:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T23:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9253"},"modified":"2013-08-14T18:46:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T23:46:24","slug":"one-reason-isd-709-better-hope-that-a-referendum-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9253","title":{"rendered":"One reason ISD 709 better hope that a referendum passes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/275133\/publisher_ID\/36\/\">story<\/a> about the Northstar Academy&#8217;s current decision not to begin a new high school. If a referendum fails there will be increasing calls for a new escape hatch from families that have children in 40 plus classrooms. That new high school could draw off another 400 or 500 students from ISD 709.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help but notice the name of one task force member looking into a new school who was quoted in the story. Just a few years ago he vociferously attacked me for demanding a vote on the Red Plan in letters to the editor and on the DNT&#8217;s abandoned chat page. He liked to say that my blog was a scurrilous and bestial place, or words to that effect. <\/p>\n<p>Having gotten the new high schools at a cost of half a billion bucks he now wants to pull another 400 students out of them turning a calamity for the ISD 709 schools into a calamity squared. With Red Plan friends like that who needs enemies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is this story about the Northstar Academy&#8217;s current decision not to begin a new high school. If a referendum fails there will be increasing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,17,35,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-duluth-sb-election","category-duluth-schools","category-education","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253","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=9253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9255,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions\/9255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}