{"id":6548,"date":"2015-09-09T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6548"},"modified":"2015-09-08T01:52:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T06:52:50","slug":"run-mmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/run-mmc\/","title":{"rendered":"RUn-MMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn and Remsen-Union school boards Sept. 2\u00a0gave the second approval for a whole-grade-sharing agreement starting in 2016, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktiv.com\/story\/29948224\/2015\/09\/02\/two-northwest-iowa-schools-approve-plan-for-whole-grade-sharing\">KTIV reports<\/a>. Marcus gets the high school, Remsen gets grades 5-8, each keep their own elementaries. The story says that in November, there will be suggestions taken on a new name and mascot.<\/p>\n<p>I hope the new district name, if they don&#8217;t just combine the existing ones and form RUMMC, won&#8217;t be something vague and non-geographic, but this one will be tricky since the districts span two counties and no geographic features stand out. (I&#8217;m putting R-U first as an olive branch since that&#8217;s the district losing the high school.)<\/p>\n<p>Since a whole new mascot has to be picked (and Iowa loses another school nicknamed the Rockets), how about Lions? We have lots of Tigers but comparatively few Lions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn and Remsen-Union school boards Sept. 2\u00a0gave the second approval for a whole-grade-sharing agreement starting in 2016, KTIV reports. Marcus gets the high school, Remsen gets grades 5-8, each keep their own elementaries. The story says that in November, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/run-mmc\/\">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-6548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548","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=6548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6551,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions\/6551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}