{"id":6433,"date":"2015-08-05T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6433"},"modified":"2015-08-02T01:53:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T06:53:01","slug":"highland-wants-to-consolidate-building-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/highland-wants-to-consolidate-building-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Highland wants to consolidate building location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.bimvid.com\/v2\/vps\/kcrg\/1a39a7e578a4be14fae5077ce3e7dc88a1fd4e9e\/ref=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5rY3JnLmNvbS9zdWJqZWN0L25ld3MvZWR1Y2F0aW9uL2stMTItZWR1Y2F0aW9uL3RhbGstb2YtZWxlbWVudGFyeS1jbG9zdXJlcy1yYWlzaW5nLWNvbmNlcm5zLWluLXJpdmVyc2lkZS1haW5zd29ydGgtMjAxNTA3MzE\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Highland school district is proposing to close two elementary buildings that haven&#8217;t been around all that long.<\/p>\n<p>Highland, a name that falls firmly in the &#8220;tells you nothing about its location&#8221; category, is Ainsworth and Riverside in Washington County. The junior high\/high school is not in either town but along old US 218 halfway between the two. The district is going to have a bond referendum this fall about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highland.k12.ia.us\/vnews\/display.v\/ART\/55ba2378350aa\">building a new elementary near that complex<\/a>, and both towns would lose their schools.<\/p>\n<p>The oldest part of the\u00a0building in Ainsworth besides the gym <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highland.k12.ia.us\/vnews\/display.v\/SEC\/Ainsworth%20Elementary\">is only 42 years old<\/a> (in Iowa, that qualifies as\u00a0<em>only<\/em>) \u2014 and has an addition from <em>1999<\/em>. Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highland.k12.ia.us\/vnews\/display.v\/SEC\/Riverside%20Elementary\">Riverside Elementary was\u00a0<em>built in 1995<\/em><\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The district cites multiple categories of &#8220;efficiency&#8221; \u2014 staff, transportation, energy \u2014 as reasons for construction, but it&#8217;s up to the district&#8217;s voters to decide if that merits emptying out two places that, at least partly, just date back to the Clinton era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Highland school district is proposing to close two elementary buildings that haven&#8217;t been around all that long. Highland, a name that falls firmly in the &#8220;tells you nothing about its location&#8221; category, is Ainsworth and Riverside in Washington County. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/highland-wants-to-consolidate-building-location\/\">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-6433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433","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=6433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6436,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions\/6436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}