Board of Education ex rel. Essex Independent School District v. Board of Education ex rel. Montgomery County

For the second time we consider rulings of the State Department of Public Instruction on the petition for reorganization of certain districts in Page and Montgomery Counties into the Coburg-Essex Community School District. Our first opinion (Board of Education v. Board of Education, 251 Iowa 1085, 104 N.W.2d 590) reversed the trial court’s approval of the state department’s order vacating the decision of the joint boards of Page and Montgomery Counties. We held the state department had not given proper notice of hearing to all interested school districts, remanded the case and ordered it sent…