{"id":8186,"date":"2016-12-19T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8186"},"modified":"2016-12-15T00:45:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T06:45:55","slug":"bernard-school-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/12\/bernard-school-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard school in trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8187\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BernardSchool.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BernardSchool.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BernardSchool-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>June 18, 2015:<\/strong> The Bernard school was built in 1960. The lettering outside, presumably original, says &#8220;West Dubuque&#8221; instead of &#8220;Western Dubuque&#8221; \u2014 a name that would have brought it in line with all the other &#8220;West&#8221;s in Iowa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Western Dubuque school district could shut down Bernard Elementary at the end of the school year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwwl.com\/story\/34045997\/2016\/12\/13\/western-dubuque-school-district-mulls-future-of-bernard-elementary\">KWWL reports<\/a>. The district says it costs twice as much to operate and has fewer than three dozen students.<\/p>\n<p>Western Dubuque overall is a growing district \u2014 it passed 3000 in 2015 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/subject\/sports\/blogs\/diamonds-and-ice-by-jeff-johnson\/western-dubuque-finds-class-4a-football-to-its-liking-20161008\">WDHS was promoted to Class 4A in 2015.<\/a>\u00a0But the growth is mostly along US 20 \u2014 remember, Western Dubuque is a two-high-school district and about a third of its students go to Cascade \u2014 and that puts Bernard in a tough spot.<\/p>\n<p>The news story mentions that an addition was built to Cascade Elementary this decade, which is endemic of another trend \u2014 an addition gets built in a larger\/more centralized part of a school district and an outlying building gets shut down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 18, 2015: The Bernard school was built in 1960. The lettering outside, presumably original, says &#8220;West Dubuque&#8221; instead of &#8220;Western Dubuque&#8221; \u2014 a name that would have brought it in line with all the other &#8220;West&#8221;s in Iowa. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/12\/bernard-school-in-trouble\/\">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-8186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186","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=8186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8188,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186\/revisions\/8188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}