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Category Archives: Schools
May
31
At NU High, school’s out forever(?)
Last day was Wednesday. Probably.
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May
13
Court clears way for Preston, East Central vote
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday (QC Times), months after the initial case and after East Central started a sharing agreement with Northeast. The Preston-East Central combination, which supporters would like to call Easton Valley*, has had its viability called … Continue reading
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Apr
18
Woden-Crystal Lake’s dissolution dilemma
WCLT High School sign in Crystal Lake, July 2011. The “Titonka” plank has been removed. At the end of last school year, the Woden-Crystal Lake and Titonka school districts went their separate ways. WCL started a sharing agreement with Forest … Continue reading
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Mar
19
Noncontiguous school sharing?
Well, this is interesting. Monday night the Essex and South Page school boards got together on neutral ground for a joint public meeting to discuss current and potential sharing agreements. … Pertaining to the upcoming football season, the two boards … Continue reading
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Feb
22
NU High to close
(Image: Waterloo Courier) Its official name is “Malcolm Price Laboratory School” or “Price Lab.” But when it comes to sports, we know it as “NU High” (for Northern University). Its connection to UNI wasn’t that much of a concern or … Continue reading
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Dec
26
Register project on state championships
Comprehensive county-by-county list, sortable by county and sport with school and year-by-year search. Look at how many small schools have one or two boys’ or girls’ basketball championships. The Melrose boys’ basketball 1937 title is the only one in Monroe … Continue reading
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Nov
11
Armstrong-Ringsted’s last game(?)
The 2009 and 2010 8-man champions lost in the semifinals to Fremont-Mills. The district is already sharing every sport except football with North Sentral Kossuth, which itself is a shared pair at the moment. Football districts will be reorganized in … Continue reading
Aug
26
Two important school-year PSAs
We interrupt our small-school/conferencepocalypse/post-office panic for some announcements: 1. Comic Sans is not an acceptable font for student handbooks. This means you, West Central Valley. (PDF) 2. Football season is here!!
Aug
24
Corning-Villisca: Squeezing out Stanton?
School districts in southwest and north-central Iowa are feeling the most pressure from the continued decline of student enrollment. As districts explore their options, we get reports with numbers that will make your eyes either glaze over or tear up, … Continue reading
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Jul
29
1A Baseball: Third all-public final in 20 years
In one corner: The recently legendary Martensdale-St. Marys, owner of an 86-game win streak and defending champion. In the other corner, and I do mean corner: The long-time legendary Kee High, a couple of fastballs away from both the Minnesota … Continue reading