{"id":6208,"date":"2015-06-09T10:14:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T15:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6208"},"modified":"2015-06-09T01:28:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T06:28:23","slug":"remsen-union-marcus-meriden-cleghorn-sharing-back-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/remsen-union-marcus-meriden-cleghorn-sharing-back-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Remsen-Union, Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn sharing back on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Remsen-Union and Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn school districts were in talks for whole-grade sharing, but ended them over disagreement on which town would get the high school. Now, after a short period of finding out the alternatives aren&#8217;t very good, the districts came to an agreement for 2016, report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioiowa.com\/2015\/06\/04\/mmc-and-remsen-union-districts-finally-agree-to-sharing-agreement\/\">Radio Iowa<\/a>, the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/siouxcityjournal.com\/news\/local\/education\/remsen-union-marcus-meriden-cleghorn-move-forward-with-sharing-agreement\/article_5c84e3d9-a65f-564a-a86d-247e0a50db8d.html \">Sioux City Journal<\/a> <\/em>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktiv.com\/story\/29244499\/2015\/06\/04\/siouxland-schools-reach-agreement-on-whole-grade-sharing \">KTIV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus, despite having the smaller population, won the debate and will serve grades 9-12. Remsen, with grades 5-8, will become the one of the ten largest <em>non-suburbs<\/em> in Iowa without a high school. (It&#8217;s difficult to rank exactly because the list has towns that aren&#8217;t quite suburbs but are near metro areas, and Toledo is a special case because South Tama High School is on its doorstep.) Each district will have K-4 sections (remember, MMC <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/cleghorn-school-will-close\/\">just closed Cleghorn<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The combined area of the two districts will result in the 12th single-high-school area in Iowa larger than 400 square miles, and the <em>ninth<\/em> that size created just since 2009, when Pocahontas Area and Pomeroy-Palmer began sharing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Remsen-Union and Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn school districts were in talks for whole-grade sharing, but ended them over disagreement on which town would get the high school. Now, after a short period of finding out the alternatives aren&#8217;t very good, the districts &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/remsen-union-marcus-meriden-cleghorn-sharing-back-on\/\">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-6208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208","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=6208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6209,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208\/revisions\/6209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}