{"id":9974,"date":"2018-05-29T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9974"},"modified":"2018-05-26T00:31:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T05:31:51","slug":"davenport-considers-dropping-outlying-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/davenport-considers-dropping-outlying-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Davenport considers dropping outlying school"},"content":{"rendered":"

So… remember the “West Scott” petition from a few weeks ago<\/a>, which is actually a rehash of the same thing three years ago<\/a>? It’s on the Davenport school district’s radar, and the district has a response of sorts: Punish them for their insolence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Is that too harsh? Let me quote from the Quad-City Times<\/em> article<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Board member Linda Hayes suggested closing all three of the rural schools. \u201cLet them work it out,\u201d she said.<\/em><\/p>\n

“If they decide to leave the district, we would lose all the money that comes with the students,” said board member Allison Beck, who added the idea is “worth exploring.”<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s hard to think of a better way to increase rural disgruntledness and add fuel to the West Scott\u00a0petition drive than threaten to take one of their schools away.<\/p>\n

The potential of closing a school not in the city of Davenport is one proposal on the table as the district deals with a long-term loss of hundreds of students \u2014 enrollment is down about one-eighth since 2000. (Meanwhile, 15 miles away, Pleasant Valley can’t build fast enough<\/a>.) Closing one of Davenport’s three high schools (!!) was even an option at first<\/a>, but has been cut in favor of this or a reconfiguration of grade levels.<\/p>\n

Davenport’s next community forum on future plans will be June 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So… remember the “West Scott” petition from a few weeks ago, which is actually a rehash of the same thing three years ago? It’s on the Davenport school district’s radar, and the district has a response of sorts: Punish them … 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-9974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9974","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=9974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9976,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9974\/revisions\/9976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}