{"id":4953,"date":"2014-06-09T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2014-06-10T01:28:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T06:28:34","slug":"article-about-upcoming-school-mergers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/06\/article-about-upcoming-school-mergers\/","title":{"rendered":"Article about upcoming school mergers"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Register. <\/a>All of these districts have been in whole-grade sharing for a while now (Clarion-Goldfield and Dows for a decade, which frankly stuns me). Once these go through, and Clearfield dissolves, the state’s list of sharing agreements<\/a> will shrink substantially.<\/p>\n

The state’s third-, eighth-, and ninth-smallest districts by certified enrollment in 2013 won’t exist next year. The 24th- and 25th-smallest are merging with each other.<\/p>\n

In a moment (actually, an hour) of Internet poignancy, here’s a YouTube link to an entire six-girl basketball game<\/a>\u00a0played between Titonka and Sentral on Dec. 6, 1983. Titonka and Sentral are both going away.<\/p>\n

I should update my long piece about Kossuth County schools<\/a> to reflect events of the past year, but it still has all the important factors.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Speaking of six-girl basketball and districts being lost, here’s a feature from CBS from 1988<\/a> about six-on-six focusing on the Elk Horn-Kimballton Lady Danes, with a cameo appearance by Ventura’s Lynne Lorenzen. (Note the comparison with Iowa State women’s hoops B.F. \u2014 Before Fennelly.) EHK is officially merging with Exira July 1, and Ventura will almost certainly merge with Garner-Hayfield next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Register. All of these districts have been in whole-grade sharing for a while now (Clarion-Goldfield and Dows for a decade, which frankly stuns me). Once these go through, and Clearfield dissolves, the state’s list of sharing agreements will … Continue reading →<\/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-4953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953","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=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4961,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions\/4961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}