Cerro Gordo opts out of co-op feasibility study

Cerro Gordo school officials have opted out of joining a cooperative high school feasibility study, but administrators from Arthur, Atwood-Hammond, Bement and Lovington will go forward.

After an October meeting with William Phillips, a professor at the University of Illinois at Springfield, school administrators decided the most attractive option for reorganization would be to convert the five K-12 districts into five K-8 districts with a new cooperative high school district.

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