Board of Directors v. Iowa State Board of Public Instruction

This is another of the many school reorganization controversies to come before us recently.

Voters of Durant Community School District and four contiguous districts or parts thereof filed a merger petition to which objections were filed. The joint county boards of education of Cedar, Scott and Muscatine Counties, in which the affected territory is situated, deleted a small part of the area proposed to be included in the enlarged district and as thus modified approved the formation of the district. Some of the objectors lived in the deleted area.

Two rural districts, Montpelier No. á and…