Seventh bond try succeeds for Iowa district

The West Central Valley (Iowa) Community School District has won approval of a $16.95 million bond issue to build a new high school in Stuart and to convert the existing high school into an elementary school. It was the seventh bond issue in the district's history and the first to pass. School officials have attributed the failed bond issues to infighting in the four-town district, which formed in 2001 as the product of two merged districts, Dexfield and Stuart-Menlo.To read The Des Moines Register article, click here.