{"id":15586,"date":"2024-06-28T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T15:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15586"},"modified":"2024-06-27T22:45:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T03:45:31","slug":"cr-sells-schools-right-before-new-law-takes-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/06\/cr-sells-schools-right-before-new-law-takes-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"CR sells schools right before new law takes effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A case earlier this school year where a public school district <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/02\/who-has-the-right-to-choose-school-sales\/\">refused to sell a closed building to a private school<\/a> led to a bill late in the first part of the Iowa legislative session. That bill mandated that if a private school is the highest bidder for a closed school building, the public school district must sell it to the private school. That language was later incorporated into Senate File 2368, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kimt.com\/news\/governor-announces-new-charter-school-grant-program-for-iowa\/article_65dade90-1473-11ef-8c81-43431cb058ed.html\">which dealt heavily with charter schools<\/a> and was signed into law at a charter school.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike many other recent bills, however, it was not declared &#8220;of immediate importance&#8221; and thus is to take effect July 1.<\/p>\n<p>That gave the Cedar Rapids school district just enough time to avoid being forced to sell Garfield Elementary School to Isaac Newton Christian Academy. Instead, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/2024\/06\/25\/garfield-elementary-sold-not-highest-bidder\/\">the district accepted a bid from a real estate developer<\/a> half the size of Isaac Newton&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Cedar Rapids schools&#8217; chief financial officer said at the June 24 board meeting, as reported by KCRG, &#8220;a loss of $1.5 million from our general fund was attributed to the 196 students choosing Isaac Newton Christian Academy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A case earlier this school year where a public school district refused to sell a closed building to a private school led to a bill late in the first part of the Iowa legislative session. That bill mandated that if &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/06\/cr-sells-schools-right-before-new-law-takes-effect\/\">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-15586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586","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=15586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15587,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586\/revisions\/15587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}