Voters in Iowa district reject $4.1 million bond

Exira (Iowa) voters have rejected a $4.1 million bond request that would have enabled the school district to build a new elementary school. The bond issue needed 60 percent approval from voters to pass, but came up short, with 53 percent approval. Administrators had argued that building an elementary was as a way to save the small farming town. School officials have decided to close the old elementary school, which they said is too expensive to fix. They added that if the bond issue failed, elementary students would move into the junior-senior high school, and older students would be bused to neighboring towns under a whole-grade sharing agreement

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