{"id":2944,"date":"2013-02-07T10:17:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T16:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2013-02-08T19:34:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T01:34:30","slug":"titonka-consolidated-to-consolidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/titonka-consolidated-to-consolidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Titonka Consolidated… to consolidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAerial view of Titonka school from Google Maps. Notice airplane indicator on building roof.<\/em><\/p>\n

The other half of the never-merged WCLT district agreed to give up the ghost Tuesday. Titonka and Algona approved a merger, and the Titonka name will disappear.<\/a>\u00a0Of note here is that Titonka district taxpayers will still be paying for a building that likely no longer will be used. It’s a very nice building. I hope a use is found for it.<\/p>\n

This vote brings the Algona school district past the midpoint of Kossuth County. In the southeast corner, Lu Verne, technically separate from Corwith-Wesley but together for decades, will also be looking for partners<\/a>. In that case, it makes more sense for the two to go separate ways, Lu Verne with Algona and C-W with West Hancock. Lu Verne and Corwith both have to have some<\/i> students in their buildings, though \u2014 at least, I think, as long as they’re technically separate.<\/p>\n

Titonka is one of two districts to have the word “Consolidated” in its official name. The other is Olin.<\/p>\n

That wasn’t the only merger vote Tuesday. Sumner-Fredericksburg<\/a> and South Central Calhoun<\/a> (Rockwell City-Lytton and Southern Cal) also approved mergers for 2014.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 2\/8: Jefferson-Scranton and East Greene also held a vote Tuesday. They just didn’t tell anyone. (The only evidence I see online is a tweet from J-S.)\u00a0The Jefferson-Scranton\/East Greene combination will become Greene County. Ironically, East Greene is going from fully separate to fully merged with J-S faster than Paton-Churdan is; P-C has shared football and some classes with J-S for decades. But as it turns out, P-C is looking into sharing with Glidden-Ralston<\/a>, even though a look at the map makes sharing with J-S look better geographically.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in the same state physically but in another world in every other way, Ankeny is going to build a tenth<\/em> elementary school<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also, the Iowa AP put out a piece about mergers,<\/a> using Sumner-Fredericksburg as a hook but mostly focusing on the “Easton Valley” issue in far eastern Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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