Manning Community School District

Manning Community School District was a school district headquartered in Manning, Iowa. The district had 111.8 square miles (290 km2) of area.[1]

History

Proposals to create the district were unveiled in 1957.[2] The election to create the district was held on April 29, 1959. 977 persons voted in ten voting districts, with 916 of them voting in favor and the others voting against. The proposal included moving portions of the Manilla Community School District into the Manning district. 34 residents in that area voted in favor of moving into Manning, while the other 14 voted against.[3]

The Manning district began operations on July 1, 1959.[2] It comprised land in the counties of Audubon, Carroll, Crawford, and Shelby, with 105 sections of land in total. About 6.5 sections were taken from the Manilla district.[3]

Manilla CSD sued to stop or reverse creation of the district, citing an Iowa law on the eligibility of voters to vote on the creation of the district.[4] The Carroll County District court judge William C. Hanson decided that the Manning district should remain, and in 1960 the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in the same way as Hanson.[2]

Circa 1968 the board of Carroll County decided that the Manning Community School District would absorb the Eden Township School District and the Templeton Independent School District. The two districts were to file appeals to the district court of that county.[5] In 1974, the three school districts and the Carroll Community School District decided that the Eden and Templeton districts would be divided between the Carroll and Manning districts; Carroll got about 89% and 75%, respectively, of the land of the Templeton and Eden districts, with the Manning district taking the remainders.[6]

The district had 563 students in the 1995–1996 school year. In the 2004–2005 school year it had 511 students.[1]

In fall 2008 the Manning district and the IKM Community School District began whole grade-sharing, in which one district sent its students to another district's school for the whole day. This arrangement meant that the two districts consolidated their students into each other's schools.[7]

On July 1, 2011, it merged with the IKM district to form the IKM–Manning Community School District.[8] The merger vote, held on Tuesday April 6, 2010, was in favor of consolidation: the vote tally at the Manning poll station was 477–20; the tallies in Irwin and Manilla, respectively, were 206-26 and 190–20.[9] During the consolidation process, the IKM and Manning school boards continued to operate while a temporary joint school board was also set up.[10]

References
  1. "Facts." Manning Community School District. August 6, 2007. Retrieved on July 17, 2018.
  2. "Manning School Reorganization Upheld". Carroll Daily Times Herald. Vol. 91, no. 57. Carroll, Iowa. 1960-03-08. pp. 1, 11. - See clipping of first and of second page at Newspapers.com.
  3. "School Board Vote at Manning June 4". Carroll Daily Times Herald. Vol. 90, no. 119. Carroll, Iowa. 1959-05-20. p. 1. - Clipping at Newspapers.com.
  4. "School Unit at Manning Held Valid". The Sioux City Journal. Sioux City, Iowa. 1960-03-09. p. 1. - Clipping at Newspapers.com.
  5. "Templeton, Eden to Appeal Attachment to Manning Area". Carroll Daily Times Herald. Vol. 99, no. 231. Carroll, Iowa. 1968-09-30. pp. 1, 8. - Clipping of first and of second page at Newspapers.com.
  6. "Boards Divide Assets, Liabilities of Districts". Carroll Daily Times Herald. Vol. 104, no. 156. Carroll, Iowa. 1973-07-03. pp. 1–2. - Clipping of first and of second page at Newspapers.com.
  7. "Education." City of Manilla. Retrieved on July 17, 2018.
  8. "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66 Archived 2018-06-19 at the Wayback Machine." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 20, 2018.
  9. "Manning-IKM consolidation wins approval". Daily Times Herald. 2010-04-07. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
  10. Wiser, Mike (2011-03-07). "Schools in small towns continue to consolidate". The Waterloo Courier. Waterloo, Iowa. pp. A1, A11. - Clipping of first (see graphic) and of second page at Newspapers.com.

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