{"id":16444,"date":"2025-09-23T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-school-district-opens-applications-for-superintendent\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:57:13","slug":"montezuma-cortez-school-district-opens-applications-for-superintendent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-school-district-opens-applications-for-superintendent\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma-Cortez school district opens applications for superintendent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3c2403c4-ce7b-4732-a1ed-4bc12a38e9af&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"764\" height=\"508\" alt=\"The Montezuma-Cortez School District is hosting a family night in April. (Journal file photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Montezuma-Cortez School District is hosting a family night in April. (Journal file photo)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 Board of Education is accepting applications for superintendent. Applications are due by noon Sept. 29.<\/p>\n<p>The salary ranges from $155,000 to $180,000, based on experience. The start date is flexible.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Tom Burris announced his resignation at the board\u2019s September meeting, citing a promise to board President Sheri Noyes. Both Burris and Noyes said he planned to leave the district when Noyes completed her term.<\/p>\n<p>Noyes will leave the board in November. Burris has served as superintendent for three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Burris mentioned that he would \u2018see me out\u2019 at my last meeting. Meaning, when I go, he was going too,\u201d Noyes said in an email to The Journal. \u201cSo, that was his reason for his intended early retirement\/resignation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burris gave the board 60 days to find a replacement but said he will stay until July 2026, when his contract ends, if needed.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates can view the job <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cortez.k12.co.us\/departments\/human-resources\" id=\"link-32633d4f7dba33632002298ce3fce9ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posting<\/a> at www.cortez.k12.co.us\/departments\/human-resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gave board 60 days to find his replacement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,155,28,60,216,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-16444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-montezuma-cortez-school-district-re-1","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16444","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=16444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77194,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16444\/revisions\/77194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16444"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=16444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}