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Category Archives: Schools
Mar
19
Stanwood school to close in 2015
July 6, 2013: Detail of stone carving over entrance to original Stanwood school building. KCRG has the story, which is also embedded below. This move by North Cedar does something that hasn’t happened in a long time, if at all: … Continue reading
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Mar
10
Corwith-Wesley pursuing dissolution
In my piece last year about school districts in north-central Iowa (linked at right, and here), I mentioned the Corwith-Wesley and LuVerne school districts, which have been together for years but are technically still independent, were going to enter grade-sharing … Continue reading
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Feb
24
Private school building in Peosta demolished
St. John the Baptist school and rectory were torn down last week, reports KWWL.
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Feb
18
Geneseo featured in article about abandoned schools
Sept. 23, 2011: The abandoned Geneseo Township school building east of Buckingham, like many pre-WWII schools in Iowa, had an addition built later. The addition area was used for apartments for a time. In my travels across Iowa, I have … Continue reading
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Feb
14
Alta-Aurelia switches school calendar to hours
At this point, it will be more newsworthy when a school district decides to measure the next school year in days, but here’s another data point from the Cherokee Chronicle Times. On a related note, Cedar Rapids’ school year won’t … Continue reading
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Feb
05
AHSTW joins the five-letter acronym club
Avoca-Hancock-Shelby-Tennant and Walnut, which have been sharing football for years, are going all-in on whole-grade sharing (links: KMA, Omaha World-Herald). This school year, Walnut is the 10th-smallest school district in the state by certified enrollment, but the second-smallest that still … Continue reading
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Feb
04
Prairie Valley, SE Webster-Grand on track to create state’s second-largest district
July 25, 2012: This new landscaping at the Boxholm school addition may not have students enjoying it for long. The main building was constructed in 1916. When the football district assignments came out, I noticed that Southeast Webster-Grand wasn’t listed … Continue reading
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Jan
30
North Tama’s enrollment drop among largest in state
Meanwhile, Waukee added NT’s entire student population in one year. Again. The 2013-14 Iowa enrollment numbers, released last week by the Department of Education, show a positive change statewide from the previous school year. However, those gains are not spread … Continue reading
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Jan
13
Three school story links
It’s the slow season for the blog; outside of whatever might pop up in the Legislature, road and school news is pretty quiet. Posts may be more sporadic. But here are some stories that caught my eye: Iowa City Press-Citizen: … Continue reading
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Dec
23
On really, really small-school football
The Omaha World-Herald’s Dirk Chatelain follows a team taking a 368-mile one-way trip to play a 6-man football game in its last season. There are some parts of this story also applicable to Iowa.
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