{"id":9594,"date":"2018-01-18T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9594"},"modified":"2018-01-14T23:44:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T05:44:44","slug":"disharmony-with-harmony-van-buren-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/disharmony-with-harmony-van-buren-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"Disharmony with Harmony-Van Buren merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some residents of the Harmony school district don&#8217;t want to be a part of a consolidation with Van Buren,\u00a0according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehawkeye.com\/news\/20180114\/voters-could-derail-consolidation-of-districts\">this article from the <em>Burlington Hawk Eye<\/em><\/a>. In November, the AEA denied all requests to shift land from one district to another (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1OITmFMuM34lZoaYzQA251Qgl_BanOxA1SHqcZkBgkUI\/edit\">Google Doc<\/a>), including land bordering other districts. (Harmony&#8217;s eastern border, on average, is about three miles east of the Van Buren County line.)<\/p>\n<p>The article happened to indirectly address something I&#8217;d been wondering \u2014 if a consolidation would result in the Douds school closing. It said the Douds school is full, and a reorganization could result in some students in the existing Van Buren district going to the Harmony school instead.<\/p>\n<p>Reminder: When Harmony started whole-grade sharing, Bonaparte Elementary closed, and students were moved to the school that is at the intersection of J40 and W46 north of Farmington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some residents of the Harmony school district don&#8217;t want to be a part of a consolidation with Van Buren,\u00a0according to this article from the Burlington Hawk Eye. In November, the AEA denied all requests to shift land from one district &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/disharmony-with-harmony-van-buren-merger\/\">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-9594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594","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=9594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9595,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594\/revisions\/9595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}