{"id":6441,"date":"2015-08-07T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6441"},"modified":"2015-08-07T00:59:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T05:59:34","slug":"walnut-school-closing-regardless-of-merger-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/walnut-school-closing-regardless-of-merger-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Walnut school closing regardless of merger vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Walnut school district, which is currently sending its higher grades to AHST, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonpareilonline.com\/news\/local\/state-of-our-schools-facing-reorganization-walnut-school-to-close\/article_338d38ef-23ca-51ea-91ac-832087def6c6.html\">will send everyone to Avoca even if a September merger vote fails<\/a>, according to the Council Bluffs <em>Daily Nonpareil<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Walnut lost a quarter of its enrollment <em>in this decade<\/em>. Should the consolidation vote fail, all the students will be sent to AHST (renamed AHSTW) in 2016 anyway, and Walnut would <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/prescott-becomes-a-zombie-district\/\">become a zombie district<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonpareilonline.com\/news\/local\/ahst-schools-continue-to-see-changes\/article_e0a6a257-9426-593b-9211-0a585a63ecc8.html\">AHST is building an addition<\/a> to its now-sole campus in Avoca, after having closed Avoca Elementary and the building in Shelby. I am not entirely sure when Shelby closed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swiowanewssource.com\/archives\/article_e2601952-e36f-5004-9086-c0f5feea4a12.html \">The AHST board voted to close it in 2005<\/a>, but a bond issue later that year to build a single campus barely made a supermajority and a lawsuit lasted two years <a href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/in-re-ahst-community-school-dist\">before the Iowa Supreme Court ruled<\/a> the petitioners did not fulfill requirements in a timely manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Walnut school district, which is currently sending its higher grades to AHST, will send everyone to Avoca even if a September merger vote fails, according to the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil. Walnut lost a quarter of its enrollment in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/walnut-school-closing-regardless-of-merger-vote\/\">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-6441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441","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=6441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6444,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions\/6444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}