{"id":5612,"date":"2014-12-12T17:58:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T23:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5612"},"modified":"2014-12-12T17:58:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T23:58:35","slug":"no-automatic-waivers-to-start-school-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/no-automatic-waivers-to-start-school-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"No automatic waivers to start school in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cEffective immediately, the department will no longer automatically grant waivers of the school start date requested under Iowa (law) for the 2015-2016 school year.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Big move. Stories:<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/thegazette.com\/subject\/news\/education\/state-of-iowa-will-no-longer-grant-automatic-waivers-for-school-start-dates-20141212\">Gazette<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/education\/2014\/12\/12\/school-start-dates-iowa-department-education\/20307651\/\">Register<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(AP)<em>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcci.com\/news\/big-change-to-school-start-dates-effective-immediately\/30200424\">KCCI<\/a>. It was one thing to get waivers starting school the week before Labor Day. It became another thing entirely when everyone was moving school\u00a0<em>2\u00bd weeks<\/em> before. Sept. 1, 2015, is a Tuesday, meaning that school cannot start until Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p>One question to be answered later: How will this affect the expanded football playoffs?<\/p>\n<p>If this comes up in the Legislature, changing the law to &#8220;last full week of August&#8221; would be a fine compromise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEffective immediately, the department will no longer automatically grant waivers of the school start date requested under Iowa (law) for the 2015-2016 school year.\u201d Big move. Stories: Gazette, Register\u00a0(AP), KCCI. It was one thing to get waivers starting school the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/no-automatic-waivers-to-start-school-in-august\/\">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-5612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612","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=5612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5613,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions\/5613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}