{"id":3286,"date":"2013-04-25T15:28:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T20:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2013-04-25T15:29:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T20:29:32","slug":"titonka-elementary-school-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/titonka-elementary-school-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"Titonka Elementary School closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3287\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/TitonkaSchool.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/TitonkaSchool.jpg 500w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/TitonkaSchool-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>July 6, 2011:<\/strong> Dead district walking.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even though Titonka&#8217;s merger with Algona does not take effect until 2014, the district effectively will cease to exist this summer. <a href=\"http:\/\/globegazette.com\/news\/local\/titonka-elementary-coming-to-algona-schools\/article_afeb6aac-a87a-11e2-a43e-001a4bcf887a.html\">All students K-12, instead of just 5-12, will be going to school in Algona.<\/a>\u00a0There will still be a preschool in Titonka.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see above, Titonka has a really, really nice school building. I hope it can be put to good use. I wish in cases like this the larger district would consider a student distribution to keep absorbed district buildings alive, but when it&#8217;s a matter of literally a few dozen students, it&#8217;s just not cost effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 6, 2011: Dead district walking. Even though Titonka&#8217;s merger with Algona does not take effect until 2014, the district effectively will cease to exist this summer. All students K-12, instead of just 5-12, will be going to school in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/titonka-elementary-school-closing\/\">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-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286","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=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3289,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions\/3289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}