{"id":13454,"date":"2026-02-18T22:48:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-schools-release-students-because-of-storm\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:37:26","slug":"montezuma-cortez-schools-release-students-because-of-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-schools-release-students-because-of-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma-Cortez schools release students because of storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1645d0c0-a0b7-5b29-a12a-75d742e3a872&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Montezuma-Cortez students were being released from school early because of the weather on Wednesday. (The Associated Press)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Montezuma-Cortez students were being released from school early because of the weather on Wednesday. (The Associated Press)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">dur-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Montezuma\u2011Cortez school district has issued an alert telling parents and guardians that students will be released early because of worsening weather conditions. The district cited rapidly changing road conditions, saying they are \u201cquickly becoming impassable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elementary students will be released at 2:50 p.m., middle school students at 3 p.m. and high school students at 3:10 p.m. by bus and pickup.<\/p>\n<p>The district asked families to pick up children at the designated times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the district was sent out at 2:13 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[386,21,155,28,60,216,29,414],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-13454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-breaking-news","tag-cortez","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-montezuma-cortez-school-district-re-1","tag-newsletter","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18985,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454\/revisions\/18985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13454"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=13454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}