{"id":6251,"date":"2015-06-19T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6251"},"modified":"2015-06-18T02:01:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T07:01:25","slug":"corwith-school-building-will-be-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/corwith-school-building-will-be-demolished\/","title":{"rendered":"Corwith school building will be demolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/maps\/kossuth\/CWLschool.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>July 6, 2011: <\/strong>Take a bow, the night is over&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The dissolution of the Corwith-Wesley school district will be emphasized with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/2015\/06\/17\/corwith-wesley-school-district-building\/28896301\/\">demolition of the school building<\/a>\u00a0in Corwith, <em>The Des Moines Register<\/em> reports. The board voted unanimously to tear it down, guarding against the possibility of it becoming another one of Iowa&#8217;s abandoned schools.<\/p>\n<p>A correction and a clarification to the <em>Register<\/em> article: In two weeks there will be 336 school districts left, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theleaderonline.net\/content\/voters-approve-garner-hayfield-ventura-merger\">Garner-Hayfield and Ventura are consolidating<\/a>. In addition, although the figure of 4300-plus districts in 1950 looks enormous, almost 90% those disappeared before 1965, falling by the hundreds each year as town schools took in rural areas to end the era of one-room schools in Iowa. In the past half-century, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.educateiowa.gov\/sites\/files\/ed\/documents\/sfin_Reorganization_History_0.pdf\">Iowa will have gone from 458 school districts to 336<\/a>, still a loss of one-quarter of all districts in the state.<\/p>\n<p>My &#8220;longform&#8221; about the demographics in north-central Iowa <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/maps\/kossuth\/kossuth.html\">remains available here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 6, 2011: Take a bow, the night is over&#8230; The dissolution of the Corwith-Wesley school district will be emphasized with the demolition of the school building\u00a0in Corwith, The Des Moines Register reports. The board voted unanimously to tear it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/corwith-school-building-will-be-demolished\/\">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-6251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251","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=6251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6253,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251\/revisions\/6253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}