{"id":104,"date":"2004-03-16T06:54:03","date_gmt":"2004-03-16T06:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2004-03-16T06:54:03","modified_gmt":"2004-03-16T06:54:03","slug":"administration_cuts_mmsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Administration Cuts @ MMSD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Lee Sensenbrenner writes about last night&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/captimes\/news\/stories\/70300.php\">&#8220;tense&#8221; board meeting.<\/a><br \/>\nDoug Erickson writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/wisconsinstatejournal\/local\/70271.php\">Carol Carstensen<\/a> suggested Monday that the board seek an independent analysis of the school district&#8217;s administrative costs as it mulls $10 million in proposed cuts (on a 300+m budget).<br \/>\nSpecifically, Carstensen said she&#8217;s heard concern from the public about the cost of the district&#8217;s administrators.<br \/>\nSchool Board President Bill Keys said he&#8217;s not sure the board can cut much more from the administration.<br \/>\n&#8220;You still need to buy supplies and cut checks,&#8221; Keys said. &#8220;There are things that have to be done.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keys is correct that some of these things must be done.  Perhaps there are better ways, including further automation, outsourcing to local businesses or simply eliminating some processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Lee Sensenbrenner writes about last night&#8217;s &#8220;tense&#8221; board meeting. Doug Erickson writes: Carol Carstensen suggested Monday that the board seek an independent analysis of the school district&#8217;s administrative costs as it mulls $10 million in proposed cuts (on a 300+m budget). Specifically, Carstensen said she&#8217;s heard concern from the public about the cost of [&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":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}