{"id":52224,"date":"2015-03-25T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52224"},"modified":"2015-03-25T07:32:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T12:32:19","slug":"priorities-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52224","title":{"rendered":"Priorities In Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minneapolis public school district <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CB4QFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mprnews.org%2Fstory%2F2015%2F03%2F20%2Fschool-layoffs&amp;ei=1qQSVaq0BsOUNsKLhJgC&amp;usg=AFQjCNEa2CdTfDv_PwMr8UqasbUtmc-_Xg&amp;sig2=GfVAqu0LrXvtiquQUxYgfQ&amp;bvm=bv.89184060,d.eXY\">expects to realize a savings of about $11 million<\/a> when it completes his layoff of about 100 administrative staff from its headquarters building.<\/p>\n<p>The district&#8217;s line is the savings are going to go back to the classroom \u2013 including potentially allowing the middle and high schools to add an extra hour onto their curricula.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who live in the conservative, real world know what this actually means \u2013 but i&#8217;ll break it down for the rest of the audience:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Now that they&#8217;re forced to cut administrators, they can focus more money on education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See the priorities?<\/p>\n<p>Minneapolis has been systematically shorting students, their classrooms, and the curricula to keep their administrative payrolls fat and happy. Now that declining enrollments have the district in trouble, the piper needs to be paid.<\/p>\n<p>This has to be at least as much the case in St. Paul, where the district headquarters building, in the Stalinesque fortress at 360 Colborne St., is more stuffed with deadwood than Lake of the Woods after the big windstorm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minneapolis public school district expects to realize a savings of about $11 million when it completes his layoff of about 100 administrative staff from its headquarters building. The district&#8217;s line is the savings are going to go back to the classroom \u2013 including potentially allowing the middle and high schools to add an extra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-indoctrinate-u"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52246,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52224\/revisions\/52246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}