Articles Tagged: Highland Community School District

As Highland and WACO’s shared superintendent Ken Crawford retires, a new face is stepping in to fill his role: Spencer Lueders.

Neither side seems to expect speedy resolution as case is referred to the state’s supreme court, which can either make a ruling in several months, or delegate the matter to the Iowa Court of Appeals. It’s the latest in a legal battle over polling place errors that allowed at least 70 invalid voters to cast a ballot in the school’s $15 million bond referendum in November.

A judge has dismissed challenges to a $15 million bond referendum at the Highland school district, even after acknowledging that at least 70 invalid votes cast in its election may have altered the outcome. Read to find out why.

A district judge has ruled in the school district’s favor, but lamented “harsh and arguably arbitrary result” in ruling to dismiss a challenge, after at least 70 invalid ballots were cast in the race.

Keota, Highland and Winfield-Mt. Union each faced considerable pushback when they announced the change to a 4-day school week. But a year later,

A contentious bond issue for the Highland school district went before a judge Tuesday morning, where petitioners argued the referendum should be thrown out thanks to at least 70 ballots counted in its election from voters who lived outside the district, but were accidentally given a chance to vote on its finances.

An appeal case for the challenged Highland bond election outcome will get a one-hour hearing on April 15, after a judge agreed to reset the schedule and cancel a previously planned 15-minute hearing on April 4.

A court order filed Monday afternoon set the date for a dismissal hearing on an appeal case that could overturn a passed bond referendum in the Highland School District.

Lawyers for the Highland school district have asked the court to strike an appeal petition, which might otherwise block a narrowly-passed bond issue for the schools over polling place mishaps in November.

RIVERSIDE — The newly selected joint superintendent of WACO and Highland school districts introduced himself to families in the community …

Contest court now tentatively plans to convene Jan. 20

Stakeholders and judges met for an informal pretrial meeting Monday to iron out some of the details for an upcoming contest court trial, which will decide the outcome of a $15 million bond issue at the Highland School District. The case seems likely to rest on whether a petition challenging the election's outcome was filed before a state-imposed deadline.

School district’s $15 million ballot issue may hang in the balance, as stakeholders form a “challenge court” and prepare to hold a trial deciding whether to overturn the election.

Stakeholders are gearing up to challenge the school district election in court

The measure won popular approval on Election Day, but that outcome is probably null after some voters were given the wrong ballots in Ainsworth.