{"id":15834,"date":"2025-03-07T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15834"},"modified":"2025-03-07T00:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T06:51:57","slug":"orient-macksburg-dissolution-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/03\/orient-macksburg-dissolution-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Orient-Macksburg dissolution passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orient-Macksburg school district <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weareiowa.com\/article\/news\/education\/orient-macksburg-community-schools-dissolve-march-special-election-iowa-july\/524-865ff5da-0785-4bfb-8d9f-e9d3544ccd36\">will dissolve after the 2025-26 school year<\/a>. The vote wasn&#8217;t close, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kmaland.com\/news\/orient-macksburg-schools-to-dissolve-following-public-vote\/article_3c92828e-f9bc-11ef-a5c6-a7667d238d83.html\">203-18<\/a>, with 10 of the no&#8217;s coming from Madison County. Most of the district&#8217;s land and students will become part of Nodaway Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Orient-Macksburg&#8217;s speech club has posted a video of a performance of &#8220;The Last Letter Jacket,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/orient-macksburg-students-deliver\">which I wrote about last month on Substack.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The (vertical) video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/omschools\/videos\/om-large-group-speech-presentsthe-last-letter-jacket\/507811835307827\/\">is at this Facebook link<\/a>, at least for now.<\/p>\n<p>A bill to synchronize Iowa Code on reorganizations and dissolutions, to make them all effective the July 1 of the subsequent calendar year, was passed by the Legislature but remains to be signed by the governor.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the governor was extremely busy last week,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iowacapitaldispatch.com\/2025\/02\/28\/gov-kim-reynolds-signs-bill-repealing-civil-rights-protections-for-gender-identity\/\">if you know what I mean.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orient-Macksburg school district will dissolve after the 2025-26 school year. The vote wasn&#8217;t close, 203-18, with 10 of the no&#8217;s coming from Madison County. Most of the district&#8217;s land and students will become part of Nodaway Valley. Orient-Macksburg&#8217;s speech &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/03\/orient-macksburg-dissolution-passes\/\">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-15834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15834","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=15834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15835,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15834\/revisions\/15835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}