{"id":133,"date":"2004-03-24T20:08:17","date_gmt":"2004-03-24T20:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2004-03-24T20:08:17","modified_gmt":"2004-03-24T20:08:17","slug":"budget_cuts_without_a_budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Budget Cuts Without a Budget?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:wHH2pyVl-H8J:danenet.danenet.org\/lwvdc\/ca200304\/img\/keysbill03.jpg\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/captimes\/news\/stories\/70844.php\">Lee Sensenbrenner writes that<\/a> Madison School Board President Bill Keys stated during a telephone interview Tuesday that golf and strings should be on the chopping block as the Board considers $9m reductions in the $310+ budget: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Funding for the fourth-grade stringed music classes and varsity golf teams is being questioned by Madison School Board President Bill Keys as the school district struggles to find $10 million worth of cuts.<br \/>\nThe district administration made its recommendations earlier this month for next year&#8217;s budget, and the board is in the process of its own review.<br \/>\nAlthough administrators did not propose cutting the popular strings class, Keys said in a telephone interview Tuesday it&#8217;s an option he&#8217;d like to consider.<br \/>\n&#8220;The strings class has always been brought up as a possibility, so I said let&#8217;s bring it up again,&#8221; Keys said.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, Barb Schrank sent a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/election\/032404budget.html\">one page Madison Schools Budget update<\/a> where she writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i> &#8220;To date, the School Board has not received the budget for next year.  How can the School Board make cut decisions without a reference budget?&#8221; <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/election\/032404budget.pdf\">95K PDF<\/a>] Great question&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Sensenbrenner writes that Madison School Board President Bill Keys stated during a telephone interview Tuesday that golf and strings should be on the chopping block as the Board considers $9m reductions in the $310+ budget: &#8220;Funding for the fourth-grade stringed music classes and varsity golf teams is being questioned by Madison School Board President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}