{"id":3282,"date":"2013-04-24T12:59:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T17:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2013-04-24T12:59:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T17:59:02","slug":"cwl-may-be-next-small-school-domino-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/cwl-may-be-next-small-school-domino-to-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"CWL may be next small-school domino to fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corwith-Wesley and LuVerne have been whole-grade sharing for more than 30 years, but could never merge because the combined districts didn&#8217;t meet the 300-student threshold.<\/p>\n<p>Now the two districts <a href=\"http:\/\/globegazette.com\/brittnewstribune\/news\/local\/cw-and-l-choose-algona-as-partner\/article_d59fc586-a154-11e2-9a4c-001a4bcf887a.html \">may be going to join Algona<\/a> within the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to have more about this later.<\/p>\n<p>Note: A <a href=\"http:\/\/globegazette.com\/news\/local\/corwith-wesley-luverne-students-surveyed-prefer-move-to-algona-district\/article_efa7164a-9e26-11e2-8130-001a4bcf887a.html \">Mason City Globe-Gazette article<\/a> mentions in passing the collapse of the Corn Belt Conference, which Wikipedia says is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cornbelt_Conference\">one of Iowa&#8217;s oldest<\/a>. But in this case realignment is not an effect of money so much as simple attrition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corwith-Wesley and LuVerne have been whole-grade sharing for more than 30 years, but could never merge because the combined districts didn&#8217;t meet the 300-student threshold. Now the two districts may be going to join Algona within the next five years. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/cwl-may-be-next-small-school-domino-to-fall\/\">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-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","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=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3283,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}