{"id":8954,"date":"2017-07-03T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8954"},"modified":"2017-06-30T00:37:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T05:37:03","slug":"oabcig-consolidation-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/07\/oabcig-consolidation-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"OABCIG consolidation passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8955\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/OABCIGJH.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/OABCIGJH.jpg 640w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/OABCIGJH-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>June 24, 2017:<\/strong> The school in Odebolt was a sticking point in previously failed reorganization votes. Residents were afraid the town would lose its school.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Odebolt-Arthur and Battle Creek-Ida Grove school districts will consolidate in 2018, <a href=\"http:\/\/siouxcityjournal.com\/news\/local\/education\/third-time-is-a-charm-o-a-bc-ig-unify\/article_8da1dca3-0366-54de-b01b-c8fd9fac92e6.html\">the <em>Sioux City Journal<\/em> reports<\/a>. This was the third attempt at the vote. The second one, which failed last year, drove enough hard feelings <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/education\/2016\/11\/21\/ugly-school-merger-fight-divides-2-iowa-towns\/93794192\/\">the <em>Des Moines Register<\/em> wrote about it.<\/a>\u00a0The high school will be in Ida Grove, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktiv.com\/story\/21661226\/2013\/03\/Saturday\/a-piece-of-ida-grove-history-turns-to-rubble\">tore down its 1923 school<\/a> that was right by the courthouse four years ago. (Until 10 days ago my last stop in Ida Grove was a decade ago, when I wasn&#8217;t thinking about taking pictures of all the old schools, so it&#8217;s lost on my list.)<\/p>\n<p>The combined district will be over 350 square miles \u2014 a number that a decade ago would have been semi-notable but now doesn&#8217;t even make the top 20 for one-high-school areas \u2014 and run along IA 175 from the Woodbury\/Ida county line to the new IA 471.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 24, 2017: The school in Odebolt was a sticking point in previously failed reorganization votes. Residents were afraid the town would lose its school. The Odebolt-Arthur and Battle Creek-Ida Grove school districts will consolidate in 2018, the Sioux City &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/07\/oabcig-consolidation-passes\/\">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-8954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954","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=8954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8956,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions\/8956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}