{"id":4308,"date":"2013-12-19T15:56:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T21:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4308"},"modified":"2013-12-19T15:56:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T21:56:01","slug":"what-happens-to-stuff-in-a-closed-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/what-happens-to-stuff-in-a-closed-school\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens to stuff in a closed school?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scale is very different compared with what would happen in Iowa, but a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbez.org\/series\/curious-city\/what-happened-all-stuff-chicagos-closed-schools-109360\">Chicago NPR station found out<\/a> that a couple old schools there are serving as equipment and textbook repositories for material from 43 buildings the city closed. Everything is sorted, cataloged, categorized, and stored for redistribution or disposal.<\/p>\n<p>In the week since the story was posted, the cost to empty the buildings has risen to triple its initial estimate. (At least the city is doing it\u00a0<em>right<\/em>, and isn&#8217;t leaving stuff to rot. The buildings themselves, we&#8217;ll have to see.)<\/p>\n<p>A note from the bottom of the story: Chicago stopped giving the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scale is very different compared with what would happen in Iowa, but a Chicago NPR station found out that a couple old schools there are serving as equipment and textbook repositories for material from 43 buildings the city closed. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/what-happens-to-stuff-in-a-closed-school\/\">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-4308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308","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=4308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4309,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions\/4309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}