{"id":85,"date":"2004-03-09T14:20:24","date_gmt":"2004-03-09T14:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2004-03-09T14:20:24","modified_gmt":"2004-03-09T14:20:24","slug":"madison_schools_budget_10m_gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Madison Schools Budget &#8211; 10m Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/captimes\/news\/stories\/69759.php\">Lee Sensenbrenner writes<\/a>:<br \/>\n&#8220;The shortfall is caused by costs &#8211; mostly tied to staff contracts &#8211; that have increased faster than state law allows school districts to tax, officials said. It&#8217;s a phenomenon that&#8217;s been repeated since 1994, and assistant superintendent Roger Price predicted that the district will face $6 million to $7 million shortfalls every year.&#8221;<br \/>\nGreat to see this article online; this morning&#8217;s Wisconsin State Journal interview with School Board Candidates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/election\/\">Shwaw Vang &#038; Sam Johnson<\/a> is not&#8230;. [<i>Ed: it&#8217;s 2004, is it not?<\/i>]<br \/>\nThis is a real opportunity for the board &#038; community to start developing alternative sources of revenue &#8211; other than the property tax.<br \/>\nLearn more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/election\/\">April 6, 2004 election &#038; school board candidates here<\/a>.<br \/>\nVote!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Sensenbrenner writes: &#8220;The shortfall is caused by costs &#8211; mostly tied to staff contracts &#8211; that have increased faster than state law allows school districts to tax, officials said. It&#8217;s a phenomenon that&#8217;s been repeated since 1994, and assistant superintendent Roger Price predicted that the district will face $6 million to $7 million shortfalls [&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\/85"}],"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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}