{"id":13944,"date":"2022-05-04T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=13944"},"modified":"2022-05-03T23:17:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T04:17:06","slug":"southeast-valley-consolidation-effective-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/05\/southeast-valley-consolidation-effective-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Valley consolidation effective in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Prairie Valley and Southeast Webster-Grand school districts started whole-grade sharing <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/southeast-valley-continues-trend-toward-vague-district-names\/\">as Southeast Valley in 2014<\/a>. Almost a decade later they will be officially consolidated. Although the vote was March 1, the merger won&#8217;t go into effect until 2023, based on the current rule that reorganizations take effect July 1 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/educateiowa.gov\/sites\/files\/ed\/documents\/Reorganization%2C%20Dissolution%20and%20Sharing%20Guide.pdf\">calendar year following<\/a> the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Fort Dodge Messenger<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.messengernews.net\/news\/local-news\/2022\/02\/se-valley-consolidation-on-ballot-tuesday\/\">has reported<\/a> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.messengernews.net\/news\/local-news\/2022\/03\/together-as-one-4\/\">twice<\/a> \u2014 that Southeast Valley will be the second-largest school district in the state in area, behind Western Dubuque. This would have been correct a few years ago, but not anymore. The consolidation of <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/two-consolidations-passed-last-week\/\">Van Buren and Harmony in 2019<\/a> created the largest one-high-school single district. In addition, if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.algona.com\/news\/algona-lu-verne-school-merger-committee-seeks-signatures\">Algona and Lu Verne merge as expected<\/a>, that district will be ahead of Southeast Valley.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021-22, pre-consolidation, Southeast Valley is the sixth-largest one-high-school <em>area<\/em> in the state. No new two-way whole-grade-sharing arrangements have been enacted since 2016. (Clay Central-Everly is the only district to have given up its high school since then.*)<\/p>\n<p>Much more Southeast Valley history is coming Friday.<\/p>\n<p>*Learned while writing this blog post: CCE only had one year of sending students in grades 7-12 to multiple schools. Then in 2020 it exclusively set one-way sharing with Spencer (<a href=\"https:\/\/kicdam.com\/news\/170071-clay-central-everly-officials-talk-about-sharing-agreement-with-spencer-schools\/\">story: KICD<\/a>), reportedly because the state only allows one partner school. That surprises me, given that Andrew currently\u00a0splits its students in grades 9-12 between Maquoketa and Bellevue.<\/p>\n<p>*Learned while writing the previous note: Andrew is giving up its junior high students this fall, officially tuitioning to Bellevue but also having Maquoketa as a partner. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevueheraldleader.com\/news\/sharing-agreement-approved-between-school-districts\/article_6eeca4ee-8e71-11ec-9a6d-539360250c7e.html\">story: <em>Bellevue Herald-Leader<\/em><\/a>) That would explain things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prairie Valley and Southeast Webster-Grand school districts started whole-grade sharing as Southeast Valley in 2014. Almost a decade later they will be officially consolidated. Although the vote was March 1, the merger won&#8217;t go into effect until 2023, based &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/05\/southeast-valley-consolidation-effective-2023\/\">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-13944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13944","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=13944"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14077,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13944\/revisions\/14077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}