{"id":9932,"date":"2018-05-17T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9932"},"modified":"2018-05-15T11:33:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:33:56","slug":"mallard-schools-goose-is-cooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/mallard-schools-goose-is-cooked\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallard school&#8217;s goose is cooked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MallardSchoolDetail.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"420\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>October 3, 2016<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The inevitable finally happened: West Bend-Mallard announced in January that Mallard Elementary will be closed after the 2018-19 school year. <a href=\"http:\/\/kicdam.com\/news\/170071-area-school-district-to-close-building-in-2019\/\">Story: KICD<\/a>. (I missed this when it happened because I was waiting for the <em>Emmetsburg News<\/em> to cover it, and never saw.) The West Bend-Mallard <a href=\"http:\/\/west-bend.k12.ia.us\/sites\/default\/files\/BOARD%20MINUTES%201092018.pdf\">school board minutes<\/a> from January 9 are terse.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a slow-motion wait for the inevitable. West Bend-Mallard first explored closing the building in 2014, but ultimately put off the decision for re-evaluation after certified enrollment dropped below 300. <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/enrollment-data-shows-more-of-the-same\/\">That happened this year.<\/a>\u00a0During that time, an addition was planned and put under construction <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/is-mallard-school-a-sitting-duck\/\">at West Bend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With a year&#8217;s advance notice, Mallard joins the <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/two-consolidations-passed-last-week\/\">North Winneshiek building<\/a> as a school that won&#8217;t make it <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/maps\/schooltimeline.html\">out of the decade alive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 3, 2016 The inevitable finally happened: West Bend-Mallard announced in January that Mallard Elementary will be closed after the 2018-19 school year. Story: KICD. (I missed this when it happened because I was waiting for the Emmetsburg News to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/mallard-schools-goose-is-cooked\/\">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-9932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932","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=9932"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9952,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions\/9952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}