The Farragut school district could be forcibly dissolved because its locker rooms, showers, and weight room are not compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act.<\/p>\n
That is what the 200-student school in far southwestern Iowa is up against<\/a> after the nine-vote failure of a PPEL the day after Labor Day<\/a>. Granted, it’s a slight oversimplification because the district also got dinged for not having its nondiscrimination policies posted online, lacking a few required classes, and for teacher licensing\/evaluation issues. (Oh, and the vo-ag space the district is using in Sidney after having to close its existing vo-ag space for ADA issues also<\/em> has been judged non-ADA compliant.) But the crux of the matter is, Farragut is not engaged in a $1.2 million construction project right now, and that’s a problem.\u00a0The school has since\u00a0turned off the showers<\/a>\u00a0and locked up the weight room.<\/p>\n The issues individually may be small, but they’re stacked up with the school district’s negative unspent balance<\/a>, which was a trigger for the potential loss of accreditation in the first place. And if Farragut overspends again<\/em>, then don’t worry about the PPEL because you won’t have a school.<\/p>\n Anything that happens in (or to) Farragut will have direct effects on Hamburg, which is in whole-grade sharing with Farragut and already rejected consolidation once.<\/a>\u00a0Hamburg also got cited in the report for the lack of a nondiscrimination statement.<\/p>\n The Department of Education report from the September meeting is available as a PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n UPDATE: New vote scheduled for Feb. 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Farragut school district could be forcibly dissolved because its locker rooms, showers, and weight room are not compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act. That is what the 200-student school in far southwestern Iowa is up against after the … Continue reading