{"id":43385,"date":"2021-12-07T20:09:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T03:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/a-month-to-go-montezuma-cortezs-four-day-calendar-survey-results-released\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:13:14","slug":"a-month-to-go-montezuma-cortezs-four-day-calendar-survey-results-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/a-month-to-go-montezuma-cortezs-four-day-calendar-survey-results-released\/","title":{"rendered":"A month to go: Montezuma-Cortez\u2019s four-day calendar survey results released"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Students head into the Cortez Middle School for the first day of school. The Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 School District reported gains in the performance of its struggling students, but it fell far short of the state average in every grade level for performance in all subjects.<\/span>du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 released survey results Monday that showed substantial community preference for the now-adopted four-day calendar.<\/p>\n

The school board approved the new calendar, which outlines the remainder of the 2021-2022 school year, Nov. 16.<\/p>\n

Regular Friday school days are \u2013 for now, at least \u2013 a thing of the past for the school district. At the November regular school board meeting, directors discussed that the 2022-2023 calendar would warrant further discussion.<\/p>\n

Just over 87% of staff favored the four-day school weeks, voting 214-31.<\/p>\n\n

The margin between votes was slightly larger among families sharing their input, although parents and guardians still displayed a majority partiality to the shorter school weeks.<\/p>\n

About 77% of 704 parents and guardians endorsed the proposed four-day school weeks, voting 543-161.<\/p>\n

The district is joining the Mancos and Dolores school districts \u2014 as well as the majority of the state \u2014 in shortening its school weeks.<\/p>\n

Colorado leads the nation in school districts with four-day weeks, with 114, or 64%, of its 178 districts participating in the model in the 2021-22 academic year, according to the Colorado Department of Education.<\/p>\n

The four-day weeks have been discussed repeatedly as a way to ease teachers\u2019 workloads.<\/p>\n

Students have less than two weeks before their winter break, which runs through Jan. 3.<\/p>\n

The new calendar will not change winter and spring breaks, but it eliminates the April 25 break and the days off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Presidents Day.<\/p>\n

The new calendar lengthens the school year by about a week. The last day of classes now is May 26; previously, it was May 18.<\/p>\n

The high school graduation date of May 19 remains the same.<\/p>\n

There will be no more early release days after Dec. 17.<\/p>\n

Now, there are 160 student contact days. Previously, students were scheduled to attend classes for 168 days at the secondary school level and 166 days in elementary schools.<\/p>\n

The district will issue a 12-month calendar later, according to the Monday release.<\/p>\n

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Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 students will transition to a four-day school week beginning Jan. 4.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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