{"id":8349,"date":"2017-02-15T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8349"},"modified":"2017-02-14T17:12:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T23:12:26","slug":"bernard-elementary-will-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/bernard-elementary-will-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Elementary will close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/KWWL.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=812247990;hostDomain=www.kwwl.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=13099771;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed'><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In what was pretty much a foregone conclusion after the<a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/12\/bernard-school-in-trouble\/\"> initial news broke in December<\/a>, Western Dubuque voted on Monday to close Bernard Elementary. Stories: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwwl.com\/story\/34493185\/2017\/02\/13\/school-board-votes-unanimously-to-close-bernard-elementary\">KWWL<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/content\/news\/Western-Dubuque-school-board-to-decide-fate-of-Bernard-Elementary-413654153.html\">KCRG<\/a>. In the KWWL interview, the district superintendent said it costs twice as much per child in Bernard than it does other locations.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Clear Creek Amana is bursting at the seams and looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.press-citizen.com\/story\/news\/education\/k-12\/2017\/02\/11\/three-new-schools-under-consideration-clear-creek-amana\/97644106\/\">building a new high school<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/this-is-where-your-school-district-went-eastern-iowa-edition\/\">AGAIN<\/a>. That, and the news about L-M and COU high schools and <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/01\/libertyville-school-will-close\/\">Libertyville Elementary<\/a> closing, makes the last three weeks chock-full of evidence for This Is Where Your School District Went. Rural Iowa got its teeth kicked in on all sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what was pretty much a foregone conclusion after the initial news broke in December, Western Dubuque voted on Monday to close Bernard Elementary. Stories: KWWL, KCRG. In the KWWL interview, the district superintendent said it costs twice as much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/bernard-elementary-will-close\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-8349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8349","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=8349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8356,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8349\/revisions\/8356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}