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Dec
23
KOKZ comes full circle
And I said, what about “Breakfast at Tiffany’s?” I said “I think I remember the film”… During the last school year I regularly rode the bus, KOKZ 105.7 in Waterloo switched from Top 40 (the previous 15 years of such, … Continue reading
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Sep
21
Walcott could lose half its school grades
The Davenport school district is considering changes to the grade configuration in Walcott. KWQC and WQAD both reported last week that the K-8 school there could become a middle school for grades 5-8 or 6-8. Younger students would go to … Continue reading
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Jul
22
Algona, Lu Verne consolidation in final stretch
A vote in September will turn what 25 years ago had been five official school districts, and 2½ high schools, into the largest one-high-school consolidated district in Iowa. Algona and Lu Verne have spent the past year going through the … Continue reading
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Apr
20
South Page exploring partial sharing with Bedford
A month ago, the Clarinda school district voted to end a partial-day sharing arrangement with South Page High School that had students from the latter coming to the former in the afternoons. According to the Clarinda Herald-Journal and KMA, increased enrollment … Continue reading
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Dec
06
School timeline mega-update: IDOE building databases
October 1, 2015: The Pisgah school building, now a community center, was once part of the West Harrison district. Besides newspaper archives, there is another, more time-consuming method to find closures. The Iowa Department of Education has a yearly breakdown of … Continue reading
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Oct
15
School timeline mega-update: Multi-high-school rural districts
For forward-moving history, it’s “and then the Sixties happened.” For this timeline, it’s “but first, the Sixties happened.” These notes mostly, but not exclusively, relate to the middle of the 1960s as Iowa’s era of one-room schools ended and consolidated … Continue reading
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Oct
08
School timeline mega-update: 1966-67
November 15, 2013: “Hayesville Independent School, West Lancaster #9, Est. 1897, Closed 1966, Added to National Register of Historic Places 1990; Memorialized 2011.” The modern school district era in Iowa began on July 1, 1966. Starting with the 1966-67 school … Continue reading
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Sep
01
School timeline mega-update: 1971-74
The timeline is now going so far back I’ve found buildings I didn’t know existed, in map dots that either aren’t on the state map now or were never there. Allerton’s school got condemned by the state fire marshal (Centerville … Continue reading
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Jan
29
Corning-Villisca merger on hold
Corning and Villisca, which started whole-grade sharing in 2013 as Southwest Valley, last year started to make gestures toward full consolidation. But like pretty much everything else, the plague got in the way. KMA reports that the merger is on … Continue reading
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Jan
26
115th anniversary of ‘Leander Clark College’
In southern Linn County, just north of Shueyville, is a map dot called Western. The town came into existence in 1856 and was named because it had the westernmost college of the United Brethren Church. A Western College Road still … Continue reading
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