{"id":554,"date":"2004-09-19T08:42:49","date_gmt":"2004-09-19T08:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2004-09-19T08:42:49","modified_gmt":"2004-09-19T08:42:49","slug":"arts_madison_sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Arts &#038; Madison Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend&#8217;s opening of the 200M+ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overturecenter.com\">Overture Center<\/a> has created a great deal of excitement and activity downtown.   Interestingly, the Madison School District has been de-emphasizing arts via:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madisonblogs.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=6&#038;search=Bill+Keys\">increased student fees<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/schools\/archives\/000765.php\">Depleting the reserve fund<\/a> for increased athletic spending (without looking at a more balanced extra-curricular approach such as re-instating the district arts coordinator)\n<li>Failing to fund West High School&#8217;s fall Performance (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/schools\/archives\/000766.php\">$11,000<\/a>) while increasing sports dollars.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend&#8217;s opening of the 200M+ Overture Center has created a great deal of excitement and activity downtown. Interestingly, the Madison School District has been de-emphasizing arts via: increased student fees Depleting the reserve fund for increased athletic spending (without looking at a more balanced extra-curricular approach such as re-instating the district arts coordinator) Failing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"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=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}