{"id":3198,"date":"2013-04-09T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T19:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2013-04-09T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T19:00:33","slug":"wapello-wants-exclusive-deal-with-morning-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/wapello-wants-exclusive-deal-with-morning-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Wapello wants exclusive deal with Morning Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1990, the Morning Sun school district has sent junior high and high school students to three surrounding districts: Mediapolis, Winfield-Mount Union, and Wapello.<\/p>\n<p>Now Wapello, at least, is <a href=\"http:\/\/muscatinejournal.com\/news\/local\/education\/share-and-share-all-like-not-really\/article_060f4509-dd74-5f8c-b1ca-c40786f9b8aa.html\">interested in making the relationship exclusive<\/a>. Wapello&#8217;s certified enrollment has fallen by 100 students in five years.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at nearby\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sos.iowa.gov\/elections\/pdf\/schools\/maps\/Mediapolis1.pdf\">district maps and county lines<\/a>\u00a0(PDF), Morning Sun-Wapello is a good fit. The former probably wouldn&#8217;t have enough pull to get a name change for a unified district (South Louisa), given that <a href=\"http:\/\/qctimes.com\/news\/local\/wapello-schools-to-change-sharing-agreement\/article_5e80b89f-3454-59fc-bd63-b74490cd9c6f.html \">Wapello&#8217;s superintendent phrased the proposal<\/a> in a way that implied the Morning Sun building would be closed eventually if a full merger took place. (Although perhaps Morning Sun should try to make that part of the deal.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1990, the Morning Sun school district has sent junior high and high school students to three surrounding districts: Mediapolis, Winfield-Mount Union, and Wapello. Now Wapello, at least, is interested in making the relationship exclusive. Wapello&#8217;s certified enrollment has fallen &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/wapello-wants-exclusive-deal-with-morning-sun\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","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=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3199,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}