{"id":14793,"date":"2023-04-07T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=14793"},"modified":"2023-04-04T23:31:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T04:31:24","slug":"crescent-school-will-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/04\/crescent-school-will-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Crescent school will close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six years ago, when the Council Bluffs school district <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/crescent-next-on-school-chopping-block\/\">proposed closing Crescent Elementary<\/a>, a tremendous outcry from area parents resulted in the school <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/crescent-school-kept-open\/\">being kept open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t escape the ax this time.<\/p>\n<p>The Council Bluffs school board approved new school boundaries at its meeting on March 28. Crescent is not part of them. Stories: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketv.com\/article\/council-bluffs-community-school-board-closes-crescent-elementary\/43446852\">KETV<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/2023\/03\/29\/council-bluffs-community-schools-votes-close-crescent-elementary\/\">WOWT<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nonpareilonline.com\/news\/education\/council-bluffs-school-board-votes-to-close-crescent-elementary-school\/article_bd7b88d8-cdd5-11ed-b8d9-6bf9c69b9578.html\"><em>Daily\u00a0Nonpareil<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to information in the board&#8217;s agenda, barely more than 40% of K-5 students in the Crescent attendance area actually go to the school. In addition, &#8220;[t]he average regular educational cost per pupil at Crescent is $13,811 versus $9,386 average for district elementary buildings, a difference of 47% more per pupil at Crescent.&#8221; As I noted in 2017, much of the facility was built this century, and the resolution says the board will seek a solution for community use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six years ago, when the Council Bluffs school district proposed closing Crescent Elementary, a tremendous outcry from area parents resulted in the school being kept open. It didn&#8217;t escape the ax this time. The Council Bluffs school board approved new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/04\/crescent-school-will-close\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14800,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\/revisions\/14800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}