{"id":49238,"date":"2021-01-17T01:13:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T08:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-superintendent-haukeness-announces-retirement\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:46:28","slug":"montezuma-cortez-superintendent-haukeness-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-superintendent-haukeness-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma-Cortez Superintendent Haukeness announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8af10c23-0680-4270-b31f-38502e087571&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1373\" alt=\"Superintendent Lori Haukeness will retire at the end of this year.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Superintendent Lori Haukeness will retire at the end of this year.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 Superintendent Lori Haukeness announced Tuesday that she will retire at the end of the school year.<\/p>\n<p>Haukeness has served as superintendent since 2016, capping a 27-year career with the district. The Montezuma-Cortez School Board will be discussing the search for a new superintendent at its next meeting on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbove all, I am most proud of the staff that makes up the heartbeat of the district. Each and every one of you makes a difference in the lives of our students, and it is a great privilege to lead such amazing professionals,\u201d Haukeness stated in a letter to staff.<\/p>\n<p>The district touted Haukeness\u2019 accomplishments in a statement, including improvements in student achievement, graduation, drop-out rates, financial stability and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past five years, the district elementary achievement in reading has improved by 5%, achievement in math has improved by 2%, the graduation rate has improved by 6.2% and the MCHS drop-out rate has improved by 3.5%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not going to be an easy job to fill those shoes,\u201d Montezuma-Cortez School Board member Lance McDaniel told <em>The Journal<\/em>. \u201cI think she did an excellent job, considering where the district was when she started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haukeness has also defended teachers during her term, leading efforts to increase teacher salaries and improve teacher satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will always be grateful for the opportunity to serve the students and staff at RE-1 and for the incredible progress that we made together for our students,\u201d said Haukeness. \u201cI will remain a strong advocate for our schools and students and teachers in my role as a community member\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Montezuma-Cortez School Board\u2019s Jan. 20 meeting will start at 7 p.m.<\/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>Lori Haukeness served 27 years with the district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49238","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=49238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87546,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49238\/revisions\/87546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49238"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}