{"id":986,"date":"2009-03-30T19:48:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T00:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hulettsonlakegeorge.com\/?p=986"},"modified":"2009-03-30T19:48:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T00:48:01","slug":"wasnt-the-boston-tea-party-fought-over-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/986","title":{"rendered":"Wasn&#8217;t the Boston Tea Party Fought Over This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/boston_tea.png\"><br \/>\nDid you know that the Town of Dresden pays approximately 50% of the Whitehall school district&#8217;s budget, has around 5%-10% of the children in the school and yet has no representation on the Whitehall School District Board of Education? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railroaders.net\/BoardofEducation.php\" target=\"_blank\">Look for yourself.<\/a> What&#8217;s missing? Not one single member on the Board is from Dresden.<\/p>\n<p>When I inquired a few years ago as to why Dresden was not proportionally represented, I was told the Board of Education (with no Dresden members) decided to make all seats at-large.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with this is because Whitehall is so much bigger than Dresden, we will always be out-voted in a straight town by town contest.<\/p>\n<p>This must change though. Two seats are up for election on the Board of Education on Tuesday, May 19th. We&#8217;ll have more on this in the weeks ahead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the Town of Dresden pays approximately 50% of the Whitehall school district&#8217;s budget, has around 5%-10% of the children in the school and yet has no representation on the Whitehall School District Board of Education? Look for yourself. What&#8217;s missing? Not one single member on the Board is from Dresden. When &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/986\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wasn&#8217;t the Boston Tea Party Fought Over This?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whitehall"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}