{"id":44470,"date":"2021-08-24T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-to-hold-emergency-board-meeting\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:23:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:23:01","slug":"montezuma-cortez-to-hold-emergency-board-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-to-hold-emergency-board-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma-Cortez to hold emergency board meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=9d1b7b1f-8605-55a2-9586-6a8ef30806a4&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"998\" alt=\"The Montezuma-Cortez Board of Education held a regularly scheduled meeting Aug. 17.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Montezuma-Cortez Board of Education held a regularly scheduled meeting Aug. 17.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 livestream<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Montezuma-Cortez school district will host an emergency board meeting Tuesday to discuss student mask-wearing.<\/p>\n<p>The only action item on the agenda is a recommendation to require students to wear masks \u201cduring high COVID infection incidences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will begin at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>It follows an announcement sent out to Montezuma-Cortez High School families Monday at 2:30 p.m. stating that an individual had tested positive for COVID-19. Kemper Elementary also announced a case of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear whether the infected individuals were students.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the district announced that six schools had cases of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>District RE-1 Superintendent Risha VanderWey could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The letter said parents would receive a notification from the district by the end of the day if their child came into close contact \u2014 within 6 feet for 15 minutes or more \u2014 with the virus-positive individual.<\/p>\n<p>Those in close contact are required by the district to quarantine for 10 days, unless they show proof of full vaccination or a positive COVID-19 test within the last 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>The district is allowing individuals who produce a negative PCR test on day five after exposure to return to school on day seven.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers will offer educational support through Google Classroom, the release said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>members will vote on student mask-wearing <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[685,155,28,167,36,216,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-44470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-local-news-lead","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school","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\/44470","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=44470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86329,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44470\/revisions\/86329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44470"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=44470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}