{"id":25104,"date":"2024-10-29T20:17:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T02:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortezs-sherri-wright-appointed-to-colorado-state-board-of-education\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:10:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:10:05","slug":"cortezs-sherri-wright-appointed-to-colorado-state-board-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortezs-sherri-wright-appointed-to-colorado-state-board-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez\u2019s Sherri Wright appointed to Colorado State Board of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=31dac04d-a32e-4fd5-9dc8-e8d6ed1064be&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" alt=\"Former Montezuma-Cortez school board president Sherri Wright was appointed to the Colorado State School Board. (Journal File Photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Former Montezuma-Cortez school board president Sherri Wright was appointed to the Colorado State School Board. (Journal File Photo)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Party Congressional District 3 Vacancy Committee appointed Sherri Wright of Cortez to the interim seat on the Colorado Board of Education.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came just a few weeks after Stephen Varela resigned from the Board of Education on Oct. 1. When he resigned, a 30-day deadline was triggered for Oct. 31. Wright was appointed on Oct. 22.<\/p>\n<p>She faces Democrat Ellen Angeles in the Nov. 5 election for the seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the vacancy meeting, Sherri Wright received the majority of votes to fill the vacant BOE position,\u201d the news release said. \u201cVoting members were impressed with Wright\u2019s four decades of service in education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wright said the appointment was an \u201chonor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply honored to be appointed to the Colorado State Board of Education, and will do my upmost to uphold the students and parents so they will have the best education possible,\u201d Wright told <em id=\"emphasis-910ec6820e6fbaf721787a90b01a8730\">The<\/em> <em id=\"emphasis-6ce48e84bc7326b7ca76b0eb56ef9f26\">Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Wright is running for the CD3 BOE position on the November ballot. She has served on the Montezuma-Cortez school board and is a former teacher and executive director of the Colorado Association of School Boards.<\/p>\n<p>Wright, 71, will serve in the interim position until Jan. 8, when the winner of the Nov. 5 vote will assume the position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>chosen to fill the vacancy in Congressional District Three<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,155,28,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-25104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25104","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=25104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78800,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25104\/revisions\/78800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25104"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=25104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}