Category Archives: Schools

Apr 30

Bus travel challenges rural school districts

Story from Iowa Farmer Today. Busing, both in terms of time for students and gasoline costs, has significant effects on rural districts’ budgets.

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Apr 22

North Iowa sells Thompson building

For $1. The building’s new owners intend to keep it and turn it into apartments, and make the gym available to the public.

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Apr 17

Central Clinton executes stealth name change

The district in eastern Iowa that is most often called “Central Clinton,” and has a website as as “Central Community,” appears to have filed a name change with the state Department of Education last calendar year. The kinda-sorta-less-vague-yet-not-really name change to … Continue reading

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Apr 14

School expansion, demolition in Midland district

The Midland junior/senior high school in Wyoming has an awkward setup: two separate complexes across the street from each other. The 1914 building was kept by itself while an entirely new building was constructed in the mid-20th century (before the … Continue reading

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Apr 13

AHSTW staying AHSTW after consolidation

A proposed consolidation of the AHST and Walnut school districts next year would result in … the AHSTW school district, the Council Bluffs Nonpareil reported last month. The new district, which would erase one of the straighter boundaries out there … Continue reading

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Apr 11

Prescott school district will cease to exist

The vote in is, reports the Creston News-Advertiser, and by a slim margin, the Prescott school district will be absorbed into the Creston school district. Voter turnout was in the mid-single-digit percentages. Consolidation will not be official for a while, … Continue reading

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Apr 10

Aug. 23 set as hard start date for schools

After months of debate, the Iowa Legislature agreed that school should be allowed to start a full week to 10 days earlier than spelled out in current law, which is what should have been done all along. An Aug. 23 … Continue reading

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Mar 25

Hamburg, Farragut must seal off old buildings

The Iowa Department of Education earlier this month gave the individual Farragut and Hamburg school districts “conditional accreditation”, meaning that there will not be any forced dissolution, at least for another year. KMA stories: Farragut, Hamburg. However, it appears that at … Continue reading

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Mar 23

Howard-Winneshiek, Riceville drop hammers on each other

Last month, the Howard-Winneshiek school board abruptly ended its agreement to let Riceville pick up open-enrolled students near the school district boundary, and a week afterward Riceville reciprocated, the Waterloo Courier reports. Now open-enrolled students will have to find their … Continue reading

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Mar 11

Lime Springs loses school, newspaper at same time

May 19, 2004: The naked pole for the west end of former IA 157 west of Lime Springs. I shouldn’t need to use a metaphorical clue-bat here. The last posts at the Lime Springs Herald‘s online news site, dated Jan. … Continue reading

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