{"id":15831,"date":"2025-11-05T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/school-board-is-in-a-death-spiral\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:35:12","slug":"school-board-is-in-a-death-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/school-board-is-in-a-death-spiral\/","title":{"rendered":"School board is in a death spiral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"1680\" height=\"958\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have a simple question: How well-educated are the members of the Montezuma-Cortez School Board? I would like to see the provenance of their individual educations, not their political affiliations. Their agenda is politically motivated, and the board does not make educationally sound decisions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ricky D. Hover<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-682d92f6fa1f234f0f8ece4aef587b8f\">Dolores<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a simple question: How well-educated are the members of the Montezuma-Cortez School Board? I would like to see the provenance of their individual educations, not their political affiliations. Their agenda is politically motivated, and the board does not make educationally sound decisions. Ricky D. Hover Dolores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831","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=15831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19866,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831\/revisions\/19866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15831"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}