A majority of voters in the Odebolt-Arthur school district rejected a merger with the Battle Creek-Ida Grove school district Tuesday, the Sioux City Journal reports. More than half of OA’s registered voters turned out to oppose a plan that would have given the BCIG area twice as much representation on the school board because BCIG has nearly twice the population.
OABCIG is the state’s third-longest active two-way whole-grade sharing agreement, dating back to 2009, but right now it’s back to the drawing board for future plans.
Elsewhere in northwest Iowa, the 1930s school in Hartley will remain in use after a bond issue didn’t get a supermajority (KIWA).