{"id":8337,"date":"2017-02-14T10:10:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T16:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8337"},"modified":"2017-02-13T22:10:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T04:10:48","slug":"charter-oak-ute-losing-high-school-new-area-acronym-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/charter-oak-ute-losing-high-school-new-area-acronym-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Charter Oak-Ute losing high school; new area, acronym champion"},"content":{"rendered":"

(A championship no one particularly wanted to gain. \u2014 Ed.)<\/em><\/p>\n

For months I have been waiting to find out what would happen to Charter Oak-Ute. There were rumblings back in October<\/a> that COU would enter into a one-way whole-grade-sharing agreement with Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto. Now, a column from Tim Gallagher<\/a> at the Sioux City Journal<\/em> confirms it. Next school year, 55 of COU’s 75 freshmen through seniors will to go high school in Mapleton. (The other 20 are open enrolling elsewhere.)\u00a0COU is the fourth school district in three years to start a one-way sharing agreement.<\/p>\n

The combined MVAO-COU will dethrone OA-BCIG as the state’s longest acronym, but stay behind BCLUW in number of towns in the name<\/em> (counting “Maple Valley” as one). <\/em>The high school in Mapleton will serve eight communities and cover 558 square miles, enough to push it over both Algona-plus-LuVerne and the new Pocahontas Area-plus-Laurens-Marathon. A future consolidation\u00a0(something that could be years out, if at all) with no loss of area would create the largest school district in absolute size \u2014 larger than Western Dubuque.<\/p>\n

But don’t tell the Legislature about any of that, because the attention is directed elsewhere for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(A championship no one particularly wanted to gain. \u2014 Ed.) For months I have been waiting to find out what would happen to Charter Oak-Ute. There were rumblings back in October that COU would enter into a one-way whole-grade-sharing agreement … 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-8337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8337","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=8337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8339,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8337\/revisions\/8339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}