{"id":5369,"date":"2014-10-09T10:30:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T15:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5369"},"modified":"2014-10-09T01:44:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T06:44:54","slug":"remsen-wont-give-up-high-school-easily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/remsen-wont-give-up-high-school-easily\/","title":{"rendered":"Remsen won&#8217;t give up high school easily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remsen, population 1663, is at risk of becoming one of the largest towns in Iowa to lose its (public) high school in recent decades. A<a href=\"http:\/\/siouxcityjournal.com\/news\/remsen-marcus-school-districts-pursue-grade-sharing-talks\/article_5fb5d42f-0538-5ebd-96c6-a696879fd6a3.html\"> proposal has been made<\/a> for whole-grade sharing with Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn with the high school in Marcus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/siouxcityjournal.com\/news\/remsen-residents-want-to-keep-high-school-under-grade-sharing\/article_68477daf-8b28-5ac4-ae1d-c47ebf9b262c.html\">Remsen residents are now circulating a petition<\/a> to keep the high school, arguing (in the petition) that whole-grade sharing isn&#8217;t needed or (in the article) Remsen would be the better town for the high school. Aerial photos show the school had major additions in 2002-04.<\/p>\n<p>It is clearly understandable why the fight must be fought. It is much less clear how successful it will be in either the short or long term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remsen, population 1663, is at risk of becoming one of the largest towns in Iowa to lose its (public) high school in recent decades. A proposal has been made for whole-grade sharing with Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn with the high school in Marcus. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/remsen-wont-give-up-high-school-easily\/\">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-5369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369","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=5369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5372,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369\/revisions\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}