{"id":28527,"date":"2024-03-27T01:18:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T07:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-school-district-to-host-safety-class-for-young-women-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:31:45","slug":"montezuma-cortez-school-district-to-host-safety-class-for-young-women-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-school-district-to-host-safety-class-for-young-women-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma-Cortez school district to host safety class for young women Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ad05db6c-cd3a-47b7-9c27-0579988d8ac1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1081\" alt=\"Sam Green\/The Journal&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Montezuma-Cortez School District budget is expected to rise next school year, but district officials say it still won\u2019t be enough to address staff salaries, transportation and other district needs.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Sam Green\/The Journal&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Montezuma-Cortez School District budget is expected to rise next school year, but district officials say it still won\u2019t be enough to address staff salaries, transportation and other district needs.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, March 27 from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Montezuma-Cortez High School auditorium, the Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 school district will host a common sense and safety course for young women who are preparing to head to college, enlist in the military or begin their jobs in the workforce.<\/p>\n<p>This free safety course will be presented by retired U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Eric Combs, a counterterrorism and safety instructor.<\/p>\n<p>According to the district, Combs has 20 years of experience in counterterrorism and hostage rescue training and military operations. He is an instructor for the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA and the Center for Teacher Effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>The two-hourlong seminar will be on the \u201cmethods and information concerning personal safety developed specifically with young women in mind who are entering the workforce, military and college.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parents and guardians are welcome to attend with their students.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar will cover safety in public spaces, digital safety, dorm and apartment safety, traveling safety \u2013 covering transportation on planes, cars, buses, subways \u2013 and public events with a question and answer time to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seminar provides safety tips for women heading to college, military or the workforce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,155,28,36,29,1310],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-28527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school","tag-newsletter","tag-safety-of-citizens"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28527","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=28527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80447,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28527\/revisions\/80447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28527"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=28527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}