{"id":47137,"date":"2021-04-27T19:04:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T01:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-school-board-announces-new-candidate-for-superintendent\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:36:54","slug":"montezuma-cortez-school-board-announces-new-candidate-for-superintendent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-school-board-announces-new-candidate-for-superintendent\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma-Cortez school board announces new candidate for superintendent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=50d9752a-3442-4142-8606-912ae62aaf6f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1510\" alt=\"Dr. Rebecca Benedict is now the third finalist to be considered for the job of leading Montezuma-Cortez schools.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Dr. Rebecca Benedict is now the third finalist to be considered for the job of leading Montezuma-Cortez schools.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Central Consolidated School District<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Montezuma-Cortez Board of Education announced an additional finalist for the superintendent job late last week.<\/p>\n<p>The board had previously <a href=\"https:\/\/the-journal.com\/articles\/208794#slide=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">narrowed down its list candidates<\/a> to just two.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rebecca Benedict is currently the principal of Kirtland Central High School. According to the KCHS website, Benedict has worked for the Central Consolidated School District in New Mexico since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Her roles with the district have included assistant superintendent of schools, director of curriculum and director of schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be that superintendent who identifies and addresses problems, celebrates successes, honors and supports cultural diversity,\u201d Benedict stated in a news release. \u201cI will help communicate student achievement goals, requirements, and expectations with staff, students, parents and community members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She previously worked in a number of positions at school districts throughout Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Benedict was also an academic counselor at Houston Community College for three years.<\/p>\n<p>She holds a doctorate in educational administration from Texas A&amp;M University, a master\u2019s of education from Framingham College in Massachusetts and a bachelor\u2019s in sociology from The State University of New York at Potsdam.<\/p>\n<p>The board intends to make a final decision on the replacement of Superintendent Lori Haukeness by May 3.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:anicotera@the-journal.com\">anicotera@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to make final choice by May 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,216,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-47137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","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\/47137","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=47137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87130,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47137\/revisions\/87130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47137"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=47137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}