Category Archives: Schools

It’s the slow season for the blog; outside of whatever might pop up in the Legislature, road and school news is pretty quiet. Posts may be more sporadic. But here are some stories that caught my eye: Iowa City Press-Citizen: … Continue reading →

The Omaha World-Herald’s Dirk Chatelain follows a team taking a 368-mile one-way trip to play a 6-man football game in its last season. There are some parts of this story also applicable to Iowa.

The scale is very different compared with what would happen in Iowa, but a Chicago NPR station found out that a couple old schools there are serving as equipment and textbook repositories for material from 43 buildings the city closed. … Continue reading →

When the Iowa Legislature last session passed a law to enable school districts to measure a year in 180 days or 1080 hours, instead of just days, it was supposed to create flexibility. Instead, by removing a long-standing provision, it … Continue reading →

It’s very hard to get a second life going for a school building. Let’s hope this is a success. Parts of the Coggon school may have been unused longer than others, given the building’s heavy presence in aggregators. Based on … Continue reading →

It is difficult to track and chronicle the statewide makeup of athletic conferences on the Iowa high school level. Mergers and attrition have brought the Cornbelt Conference in the northwest down to six members this school year, right before it … Continue reading →

“As you can see from the survey, over 90% of our community does not want to reorganize. Therefore reorganization is not an issue. We can not discuss reorganization at this time. The community is united in their opinion on this … Continue reading →

June 21, 2013: Who would’ve thought that Clear Creek-Amana students were so opposed to Tom O’Brien in the ACC? North Liberty, the 30th largest city in Iowa,* doesn’t have its own high school. It’s not even in one district. (The … Continue reading →