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Category Archives: Schools
Oct
22
This is where your school district went, eastern Iowa edition
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
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Oct
21
Historic school team nicknames
July 21, 2012 As covered on the Murph and Andy radio show Friday (go to the 25:30 mark) Bud Legg of the IHSAA has compiled a list (PDF) of Iowa high school team nicknames in the first half of the 20th … Continue reading
Oct
11
Does football’s bye week factor into school start dates?
Today North Tama is not playing football. The Redhawks are off. Iowa high school football didn’t used to have bye weeks. The entire schedule was more straightforward: Nine weeks of games, followed by one playoff game a week(ish) for four … Continue reading
Sep
04
Mason City bans birthday treats in schools
This is not the America I grew up in.
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Sep
03
Clarion-Goldfield, Dows merger vote next week
July 7, 2011: Brickwork detail on Dows’ original school building. It may not live to see its 103rd birthday. Dows hasn’t had its own high school since the late 1990s, when it entered into a grade-sharing agreement with northeastern neighbor … Continue reading
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Aug
15
This is where your school district went
July 5, 2013: Alphabetically, Ankeny and Arcadia are only separated by two towns. The demographic gulf between them, though, couldn’t be wider. Ar-We-Va closed its elementary schools in Arcadia and Vail in 2012 in favor of an addition at Westside. … Continue reading
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Aug
06
Why not North and South?
Next week, the Ankeny school district starts the year with two high schools for the first time. Their names will be “Ankeny” — no qualifier, just Ankeny, in a building that was only built a few years ago — and … Continue reading
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Aug
02
Board of Education punts on school start date
The Iowa Board of Education can’t even agree to have discussions about the creeping earlier start date for the school year. What makes it worse are the quotes from the board members. Sioux City Journal: “I’m personally upset we’re put … Continue reading
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Jul
29
Getting tougher on school start dates
To which I can only say: GOOD. Having a start date in the middle of August is ridiculous. There are some schools in the Quad Cities starting Aug. 12, halfway through the State Fair. Even North Tama starts the 15th. … Continue reading
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Jun
26
EEHK
Exira and Elk Horn-Kimballton approved the merger, which will take place next year. (Hyphen, slash, “Exira-EHK,” or whatever, still better than a name that says little about where you are.) UPDATES: Armstrong-Ringsted and Sentral also approved a 2014 consolidation to … Continue reading
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