{"id":11197,"date":"2019-07-30T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11197"},"modified":"2020-05-08T17:15:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T22:15:35","slug":"corning-villisca-plan-consolidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/corning-villisca-plan-consolidation\/","title":{"rendered":"Corning, Villisca plan consolidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11198\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/VilliscaSchool.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/VilliscaSchool.jpg 520w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/VilliscaSchool-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>August 16, 2016:<\/strong> At least one architectural feature of Villisca&#8217;s old school building was incorporated into its new one. At the time, though, Villisca had already lost its high school.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radioiowa.com\/2019\/07\/16\/corning-and-villisca-begin-process-of-merging-school-districts\/\">Radio Iowa (actually KMA) reports<\/a> that Corning and Villisca are ready to finalize their merger of school districts. The two towns, in two separate counties, have been operating as Southwest Valley since 2013. (I <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/villisca-corning-simple-name-wasnt-even-an-option\/\">ranted about the name<\/a> at the time; little did I know <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/southeast-valley-continues-trend-toward-vague-district-names\/\">what was to come<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Corning, the county seat of Iowa&#8217;s smallest county by population, will retain the high school. Adams County itself will be <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/corning-villisca-squeezing-out-stanton\/\">part of three school districts<\/a>, now that Prescott hopped over to Creston instead of staying closer to home.<\/p>\n<p>The Radio Iowa\/KMA story says the earliest consolidation could take place is 2022. A decade before that, the total final size would have made it the <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/largest-one-high-school-areas-in-iowa\/\">fourth-largest district in Iowa<\/a>, but today, it can&#8217;t crack the top ten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 16, 2016: At least one architectural feature of Villisca&#8217;s old school building was incorporated into its new one. At the time, though, Villisca had already lost its high school. Radio Iowa (actually KMA) reports that Corning and Villisca are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/corning-villisca-plan-consolidation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12114,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11197\/revisions\/12114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}