Superintendent wants to merge IGHSAU, IHSAA
Iowa is the only state in the country that has separate high school sports organizations for boys and girls.
Mark Schneider, the superintendent of the Mid-Prairie school district in Wellman, thinks it may be time to merge the two bodies together.
The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union (IGHSAU) and Iowa High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) have their own buildings, their own staffs, their own executive director and sometimes their own ways of doing business.
Schneider thinks there could be ways to coordinate the efforts to save money, work more efficiently and be more consistent in how things are done.
