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Category Archives: Schools
Jul
06
Mall between two school districts
A not-particularly-trumpeted but governmentally significant thing happened July 1: The tax increment financing district for Coral Ridge Mall expired. The mall opened 20 years ago at the end of this month. The city of Coralville’s website explains: At that time, … Continue reading
Jun
14
A Wisconsin town loses its school, and the New York Times is on it
Sound familiar? But the reality of rural life in the Midwest, school officials say, is that younger people are fleeing. They want Starbucks and Thai restaurants, plentiful jobs and high-speed internet, and when they start families, they want schools with … Continue reading
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May
29
Davenport considers dropping outlying school
So… remember the “West Scott” petition from a few weeks ago, which is actually a rehash of the same thing three years ago? It’s on the Davenport school district’s radar, and the district has a response of sorts: Punish them … Continue reading
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May
17
Mallard school’s goose is cooked
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 … Continue reading
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May
11
Petitioners want school separate from Davenport
Davenport was the only school district in Iowa to add a high school in a nearly 40-year span. But if some petitioners have their way, WQAD reports, a significant portion of the district would be severed entirely. Blue Grass, Buffalo, … Continue reading
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May
08
Plainfield school will close
A crude metric for your place in the school ecosystem is as follows: If your district has been losing about 10 students every year for a decade, is it a rounding error, something to monitor carefully and attempt to remedy, … Continue reading
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May
02
Holland school to be demolished
July 7, 2015: The brick and oversized window openings, if not the small playground, give away that this building in Holland was a school once. (Photo of the back, facing what clearly was a bad direction for the time of … Continue reading
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Apr
18
Gladbrook school building: Now what?
July 7, 2015: Will all or part of the Gladbrook school complex come down? It seems inevitable. Of course, eventually, the question had to be asked. Now that the Gladbrook-Reinbeck school district will remain intact, what is going to be done … Continue reading
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Apr
13
HMS bond issue passes
In a close to a mini-saga I’ve covered before, voters in the HMS school district finally approved an elementary school attached to the existing high school in Hartley and new classrooms/gym in Sanborn (story/schematics: KIWA). This was the FOURTH vote … Continue reading
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Apr
11
Webster City to absorb Northeast Hamilton
May 28, 2012: Northeast Hamilton completed a major construction project at the beginning of the decade, and then began sending high school students to Webster City in 2015. Now what happens to the Trojan? The Northeast Hamilton school district formed in … Continue reading
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