{"id":3471,"date":"2006-12-05T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2017-12-12T10:25:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T16:25:09","slug":"sometimes-taxes-just-aint-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/05\/sometimes-taxes-just-aint-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes Taxes Just Ain&#8217;t Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee Public School seeks &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=538075\" target=\"_new\">donations<\/a>&quot;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is it worth $300 a year for your child to go to the Milwaukee High School of the Arts?<\/p>\n<p>A group of parents involved with the Milwaukee Public Schools&#8217; specialty school is answering yes and has sent all the school&#8217;s parents a letter asking them to donate or raise that much per student to strengthen arts programming there.<\/p>\n<p>Although the $300 is not a fee or a requirement, the campaign is about as close as a public school can come to making parents pay extra for activities that are part of the regular content of a school&#8217;s program and may be unprecedented in MPS. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, how about firing a couple junior-level administrators?<\/p>\n<p>No, instead, since the normal year-round student-centric fundraising isn&#8217;t doing it, how about making them come up with &#8220;donations.&#8221;  We can be sure that students will continue to be chosen for this specialty school on talent, but it might not continue to be artistry in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee Public School seeks &quot;donations&quot;: Is it worth $300 a year for your child to go to the Milwaukee High School of the Arts? A group of parents involved with the Milwaukee Public Schools&#8217; specialty school is answering yes and has sent all the school&#8217;s parents a letter asking them to donate or raise that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-milwaukee","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18401,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions\/18401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}