{"id":7359,"date":"2016-04-21T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7359"},"modified":"2016-04-19T22:34:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T03:34:03","slug":"north-winneshiek-throws-in-the-towel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/north-winneshiek-throws-in-the-towel\/","title":{"rendered":"North Winneshiek throws in the towel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The North Winneshiek School District plans to be absorbed by Decorah at the end of the 2018-19 school year. Articles: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decorahnewspapers.com\/Content\/Home\/Home\/Article\/North-Winn-will-consolidate-with-Decorah-for-2019-2020-school-year\/-2\/-2\/39802 \">Decorah Public Opinion<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decorahnews.com\/news-stories\/2016\/04\/13388.html \">Decorah News<\/a>,<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwwl.com\/story\/31739557\/2016\/04\/15\/north-winneshiek-school-consolidating-with-decorah \">KWWL<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/content\/news\/376098311.html \">KCRG<\/a>.\u00a0The school district, whose building is located southeast of Burr Oak, will send junior high students to Decorah starting in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>North Winneshiek, which is in the Driftless Area, has one of the highest per-pupil transportation costs in the state, the superintendent told reporters. <a href=\"https:\/\/sos.iowa.gov\/elections\/pdf\/schools\/maps\/2010\/North%20Winneshiek1.pdf\">It is surrounded on 2\u00bd sides by the Decorah district<\/a>, which somehow got a 2-mile-wide strip wrapping around the Minnesota border.<\/p>\n<p>I think this is the farthest out (by time) a school district has written its own obituary. It&#8217;s also unusual in that I&#8217;m pretty sure there has to be a vote on this, but with the school board saying alternatives are nonexistent, I doubt there will be much opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Winneshiek School District plans to be absorbed by Decorah at the end of the 2018-19 school year. Articles: Decorah Public Opinion, Decorah News, KWWL, KCRG.\u00a0The school district, whose building is located southeast of Burr Oak, will send junior &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/north-winneshiek-throws-in-the-towel\/\">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-7359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359","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=7359"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7371,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359\/revisions\/7371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}