{"id":9215,"date":"2017-10-06T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9215"},"modified":"2017-09-25T00:12:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T05:12:41","slug":"alta-aurelia-consolidation-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/alta-aurelia-consolidation-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"Alta-Aurelia consolidation approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alta and Aurelia school districts \u2014 one mostly in Buena Vista County, the other mostly in Cherokee County \u2014 extended their whole-grade-sharing agreement last year. Last month, however, they dove into full reorganization, effective next year. Story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicletimes.com\/story\/2443738.html\"><em>Cherokee Chronicle-Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The school board of the consolidated district will start as a transitional board, with technically three active boards at once in the next school year, and it will eventually be whittled down to one five-member at-large board. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicletimes.com\/story\/2444339.html\"><em>Chronicle-Times<\/em>, again<\/a>) The new state law combining city and school elections had no effect on this decision, but it will be interesting to see if districts change to an at-large plan because of it.<\/p>\n<p>The Alta and Aurelia districts combined have lost 25% of their students since 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alta and Aurelia school districts \u2014 one mostly in Buena Vista County, the other mostly in Cherokee County \u2014 extended their whole-grade-sharing agreement last year. Last month, however, they dove into full reorganization, effective next year. Story: Cherokee Chronicle-Times. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/alta-aurelia-consolidation-approved\/\">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-9215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215","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=9215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9259,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215\/revisions\/9259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}