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John VanPelt - School District Reorganization

Dr. John Van Pelt has spent the past thirty-five years working in education in both Iowa and Illinois, and has often dealt with school reorganization over the course of his career. While serving as principal of a school in Shellsburg, Iowa, he experienced the impacts of school reorganization first-hand when his school was reorganized with the larger community school of Vinton, Iowa.