{"id":22593,"date":"2025-04-21T17:44:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T23:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-school-district-shares-meeting-dates-for-proposed-elementary-reorganization\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:15:22","slug":"montezuma-cortez-school-district-shares-meeting-dates-for-proposed-elementary-reorganization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-school-district-shares-meeting-dates-for-proposed-elementary-reorganization\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma-Cortez school district shares meeting dates for proposed elementary reorganization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fda1ad71-edcf-4a8c-86c3-ea2f01e99792&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1333\" height=\"873\" alt=\"An individual at Kemper Elementary School tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday, causing the entire kindergarten class to go into quarantine for two weeks.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">An individual at Kemper Elementary School tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday, causing the entire kindergarten class to go into quarantine for two weeks.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 is inviting parents and community members to discuss a proposed reorganization of two of its elementary schools, shifting from two kindergarten through fifth-grade schools to one that would serve kindergarten through second grade and another serving third through fifth grade.<\/p>\n<p>The district will hold two information-gathering sessions to engage the community in the conversation. The first meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 29, from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Mesa Elementary School gym, 703 W. Seventh St. The second meeting is Monday, May 5, from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Kemper Elementary School gym, 620 E. Montezuma St., Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>If approved by the Board of Education this year, the change would take effect for the 2026-27 school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>district is hoping to garner feedback from parents and the community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,155,28,689,1855,60,216,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-kemper-elementary","tag-mesa-elementary","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\/22593","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=22593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77776,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22593\/revisions\/77776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22593"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}