{"id":5619,"date":"2014-12-16T10:11:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T16:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5619"},"modified":"2014-12-15T23:12:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T05:12:58","slug":"seymour-school-replacement-vote-narrowly-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/seymour-school-replacement-vote-narrowly-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Seymour school replacement vote narrowly fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5620\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/seymourschool.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/seymourschool.jpg 330w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/seymourschool-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>September 13, 2011:<\/strong> Top center of the original Seymour school building. Sadly, medieval-themed school flourishes just aren&#8217;t in vogue anymore.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s climate, steady to slightly-higher student enrollment is a victory for small districts. The Seymour school district in Wayne County is among those so blessed.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this school year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyiowegian.com\/news\/local_news\/new-seymour-school-building\/article_72663776-dc99-55ee-bf1a-925f5f191d7e.html\">the district campaigned for a new building<\/a> to replace the oldest structure in its complex, partially seen above. Instead of rearranging everything, or moving across town, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seymourcsd.org\/building-page\">district proposed to replace in place<\/a>, putting the new two-story building in the same location as the three-story one. That can be a challenge especially when, as in Seymour&#8217;s case, structures have been added along three of the four sides.<\/p>\n<p>Because bond issues require a supermajority, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/seymourcsd\/posts\/578410955638301\">a Dec. 2 vote failed by 14 votes.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 13, 2011: Top center of the original Seymour school building. Sadly, medieval-themed school flourishes just aren&#8217;t in vogue anymore. In today&#8217;s climate, steady to slightly-higher student enrollment is a victory for small districts. The Seymour school district in Wayne &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/seymour-school-replacement-vote-narrowly-fails\/\">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-5619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619","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=5619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5622,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions\/5622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}