Last week had more bad news for the Farragut and Hamburg school districts in far southwest Iowa. KMA and the Omaha World-Herald both have stories. Both say the state has given the districts a 30-day deadline to explain how they will solve their financial issues. KMA says there is a hearing tonight (Wednesday) in Hamburg about putting a proposed consolidation up for a vote. Should that not happen, or if the vote fails, both districts could be dissolved and neither town would have any school.
The OWH article mentions the districts “lacked facilities compliant with Americans with Disabilities Act guidelines.” So here’s the second blog post in a week about what I call the three A’s that impede reuse of schools: Asbestos, adaptability, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. In this case, though, it’s about buildings that are still being used as schools.