!!!!!!! (Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil):
The fate of the Farragut Community School District remains unknown, but the situation is now dire after the Iowa Department of Education announced it will recommend dissolving the district. …
The Hamburg Reporter first reported the Department of Education’s recommendation late Tuesday afternoon. District officials were notified in a teleconference Friday, Hinrichs said. The Daily Nonpareil independently verified the announcement Tuesday evening with the state agency as well as Nishnabotna officials.
THAT is the sound of an administrative nuclear bomb about to be detonated for the third time in Iowa history.
The Hamburg Reporter did its work after a very vaguely worded press release came out Monday morning and it got multiple sources confirming things on the record:
Farragut School Board President Jenny Varellas confirmed that they had heard from the Department of Education on Friday, Oct. 23, that it would be recommended that the Farragut School District be dissolved. Varellas said, “with that information in mind the focus of the Wednesday night meeting has changed from discussion about the PPEL to more of a question and answer session, and what-ifs.”
There is nothing so far about the Hamburg school district’s status, but if this comes to pass, there’s a heap of chaos about to descend on Fremont County.