{"id":8440,"date":"2017-03-15T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8440"},"modified":"2017-03-13T01:28:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T06:28:17","slug":"south-hardin-sharing-agreement-extended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/south-hardin-sharing-agreement-extended\/","title":{"rendered":"South Hardin sharing agreement extended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8441\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/RadcliffeBell1.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/RadcliffeBell1.jpg 570w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/RadcliffeBell1-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>July 21, 2015:<\/strong> Architectural elements of Radcliffe&#8217;s 1915 school building were preserved when the building was torn down. Currently, Radcliffe Elementary is used for Hubbard-Radlcliffe grades K-5.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radioonthego.com\/index.php\/contentdetail\/contentdetails\/5\/5\/19926 \">KLMJ Radio<\/a> and the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescitizen.com\/news\/h-r-and-e-np-to-keep-wgs-through\/article_ed8e7ba0-fdbd-11e6-9e08-efb68c487e7b.html\">Iowa Falls Times-Citizen<\/a><\/em> have both reported that Eldora-New Providence and Hubbard-Radcliffe have extended their whole-grade sharing agreement through 2024. That means Iowa&#8217;s current oldest traditional multi-grade bidirectional sharing agreement will reach a decade and a half. (I say &#8220;traditional&#8221; because Iowa Falls is only sending one grade to Alden, and ending that in 2017, and because the North Kossuth\/Armstrong-Ringsted\/Sentral sharing tripleheader has resulted in the latter two merging since.)<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times-Citizen<\/em> said there was no interest in consolidation because of &#8220;upheaval within their districts.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know what that refers to, but I suspect it <em>could<\/em> be because Hubbard and Radcliffe feel it&#8217;s the best way to make sure both of their towns have schools (especially Radcliffe). In fact, Hubbard tore down its original building and replaced it with a new one just a couple years ago. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldoranewspapers.com\/?q=content\/hubbard-middle-school-center-opening\">The giant new gym<\/a>, though, doesn&#8217;t look like it takes the place of the 1940 one for games, since there are no bleachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 21, 2015: Architectural elements of Radcliffe&#8217;s 1915 school building were preserved when the building was torn down. Currently, Radcliffe Elementary is used for Hubbard-Radlcliffe grades K-5. KLMJ Radio and the Iowa Falls Times-Citizen have both reported that Eldora-New Providence &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/south-hardin-sharing-agreement-extended\/\">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-8440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8440","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=8440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8442,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8440\/revisions\/8442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}