Category Archives: Schools

July 6, 2011: School was already out forever for WCLT High school to zero in fifteen months. There aren’t enough kids to justify even a preschool. “We all hoped we could go another year, but the numbers just weren’t there,” said … Continue reading →

Waukee shows us what a district can do with an ever-growing tax base and a town population that is six times what it was in 1990 — not counting the other suburbs’ spillover. (Des Moines Register) Meanwhile, Ankeny opened its ninth … Continue reading →

 Polly wants a cracker — or Polly will use his hook! The Hudson school district has RSS and Twitter feeds. (Technically, the Twitter feed is the superintendent’s.) That’s one of many school districts that redirect from or don’t use the … Continue reading →

Ankeny has associate principal and assistant principal positions. Will those double up with the two-high-school system too?

Last day was Wednesday. Probably.

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 →

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 →

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 →

(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 →