{"id":5530,"date":"2014-11-19T10:29:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T16:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5530"},"modified":"2014-11-18T00:52:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T06:52:46","slug":"benton-closes-elementary-east-marshall-doesnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/benton-closes-elementary-east-marshall-doesnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Benton closes elementary, East Marshall doesn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a reversal of expectations in Gilman Monday night, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesrepublican.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/579388\/East-Marshall-to-keep-all-three-school-campuses.html?nav=5005\">East Marshall&#8217;s school board voted<\/a> to keep both the K-4 building in Laurel and 5-8 building in Gilman open.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Benton Community school board did proceed as expected, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/restructuring-unanimously-approved-in-benton-community-district-20141117\">voting to close the (separate) Van Horne Elementary<\/a> and redistribute those students to other sites.<\/p>\n<p>Counting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwwl.com\/story\/27330143\/2014\/11\/07\/worthington-catholic-school-to-close\">a Catholic elementary in Worthington<\/a>, Iowa has had three announced school closures this month alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a reversal of expectations in Gilman Monday night, as East Marshall&#8217;s school board voted to keep both the K-4 building in Laurel and 5-8 building in Gilman open. However, the Benton Community school board did proceed as expected, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/benton-closes-elementary-east-marshall-doesnt\/\">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-5530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530","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=5530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5531,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions\/5531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}