A month ago, the Clarinda school district voted to end a partial-day sharing arrangement with South Page High School that had students from the latter coming to the former in the afternoons. According to the Clarinda Herald-Journal and KMA, increased enrollment in Clarinda and staffing concerns played roles in the decision. Left unmentioned, the latter story notes, is the sports sharing agreement; South Page has not had independent athletics since 2019.
Tomorrow night, reports KMA, there will be a meeting in College Springs to talk about a partial-day sharing agreement with Bedford. Bedford is one of the other two districts that borders South Page, but it’s 40 miles away.
Elsewhere in Iowa, Ar-We-Va has been doing partial-day sharing with Carroll since 2016. Paton-Churdan had an agreement with Greene County for 2019-21, but the only update I can find is that the retiring Greene County superintendent “was proud of the continued sharing partnership with Paton-Churdan.” (Said the Jefferson Herald when the previous agreement was ratified: “It may actually be easier to persuade North Korea to de-nuclearize than to convince the Paton-Churdan Community School District to enter into whole-grade sharing with its neighbor to the south.”)