{"id":5287,"date":"2014-09-08T08:06:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T13:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2014-09-08T01:21:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T06:21:56","slug":"corwith-wesley-dissolution-vote-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/09\/corwith-wesley-dissolution-vote-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Corwith-Wesley dissolution vote Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, residents of the Corwith-Wesley school district in northern Iowa will vote on whether it should cease to exist<\/a>. There’s not much of a choice, really.\u00a0It’s a merger with Lu Verne in all but name, but it’s a likely stopgap measure of a two-step process.<\/p>\n

Next fall, all junior high and high school students in the “new” Lu Verne district, which will include the vast majority of what is currently C-W, will go to Algona. Lu Verne will keep its elementary and send 7-12 students to Algona for at least three years, but no students will be educated in Corwith. The question then becomes how long Lu Verne can remain semi-independent.<\/p>\n

Of the 100.6 square miles in C-W right now, 87.1% will go to Lu Verne, according to the Algona Upper Des Moines<\/em> story linked above. A couple edge pieces will go to Algona (would have been Titonka) and West Hancock, and the tiny sliver in Wright County will go to Clarion-Goldfield-Dows. The map (PDF) is so low-tech it’s charming.<\/a><\/p>\n

The attendance area for Algona High School in 2015-16, having absorbed the Titonka district and then counting the new Lu Verne, will comprise somewhere around 550 square miles. That’s just a hair under Western Dubuque, and surpasses the brand-new Southeast Valley (Prairie Valley\/Southeast Webster-Grand) and Davis County as the largest area with one high school. (Also, it’s 45 percent of the land area of Rhode Island, if you’d like to use that measurement.)<\/p>\n

After all that, the Algona district will retain its name. “South Kossuth” would have been a nice bone to throw to the towns involved, but the Lu Verne deal is not a grade-sharing program between equals. (Also, such a change costs money.) It is possible the “new” Lu Verne could<\/em> incorporate the Corwith-Wesley name but that would be up to Lu Verne’s board.<\/p>\n

For more information about recent changes in the area, read my long piece about Kossuth County-area schools and the rural population collapse.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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