{"id":6086,"date":"2015-05-07T10:05:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T15:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6086"},"modified":"2015-05-03T13:06:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T18:06:02","slug":"cleghorn-school-will-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/cleghorn-school-will-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleghorn school will close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 94-year-old school building in Cleghorn will educate students for one more month. The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn district will close the building, used for fourth through sixth grades, to save $130,000 a year, <a href=\"http:\/\/siouxcityjournal.com\/news\/local\/columnists\/gallagher\/gallagher-iowa-school-that-beat-flu-fire-plane-crash-can\/article_5926a96d-155c-5ad4-a6c5-591caba73bdf.html\">says the <em>Sioux City Journal<\/em><\/a>. The district will still use the gym in Cleghorn.<\/p>\n<p>MMC was in talks with Remsen-Union earlier this school year, but whole-grade sharing proposals <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/remsen-union-mmc-call-off-whole-grade-sharing\/\">fell apart over where the high school would be<\/a>. Now, R-U is in a dire enough position that it&#8217;s been talking to Le Mars, which is an all-give-and-no-take situation. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemarssentinel.com\/story\/2190184.html\">Two-way sharing is a non-starter, the <em>Le Mars Sentinel<\/em> was told,<\/a> and a name change would be supremely doubtful.)<\/p>\n<p>Cleghorn is the fifth Iowa town this school year to be faced with the closure of its only public school, the same number as last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 94-year-old school building in Cleghorn will educate students for one more month. The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn district will close the building, used for fourth through sixth grades, to save $130,000 a year, says the Sioux City Journal. The district will still &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/cleghorn-school-will-close\/\">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-6086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086","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=6086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6088,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086\/revisions\/6088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}