{"id":7124,"date":"2016-07-08T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7124"},"modified":"2016-07-02T23:51:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T04:51:39","slug":"l-is-for-lovilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/l-is-for-lovilia\/","title":{"rendered":"L is for Lovilia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7125\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/loviliaschool.jpg\" width=\"740\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/loviliaschool.jpg 740w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/loviliaschool-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>November 12, 2008:<\/strong> Lovilia school building (1920) and closeup, below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brian McMillin of Iowa Backroads wrote some history of the Lovilia school <a href=\"http:\/\/iowabackroads.com\/former-high-school-lovilia-iowa\/\">on his blog<\/a>. Two State Board of Education documents tell a fuller story about the end of the Lovilia school, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.educateiowa.gov\/sites\/files\/ed\/documents\/book17dec01.pdf\">remained open as part of the Albia district until the end of 1998<\/a>. In a special session after less than 72 hours&#8217; notice (Iowa requires 24) on December 4, 1998, the Albia school board voted for a &#8220;temporary&#8221; closure of the building after the boiler failed. The state board soon ruled that this was an obvious fig leaf to avoid school-closure guidelines, given that everything was moved out of the building over Christmas break and the boiler was shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it was a pyrrhic victory. The state board&#8217;s decision came in the middle of the spring semester, too late to move the students back, and it gave Albia time to follow the real procedure. After multiple, well-published, well-attended meetings, both Lovilia and Melrose were given the ax on March 9, 1999, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.educateiowa.gov\/sites\/files\/ed\/documents\/book17dec208.pdf\">this time there was nothing the state could do about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7126\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/loviliaschoolcloseup.jpg\" width=\"373\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/loviliaschoolcloseup.jpg 373w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/loviliaschoolcloseup-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 12, 2008: Lovilia school building (1920) and closeup, below. Brian McMillin of Iowa Backroads wrote some history of the Lovilia school on his blog. Two State Board of Education documents tell a fuller story about the end of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/l-is-for-lovilia\/\">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":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools","category-sequences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124","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=7124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7723,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions\/7723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}