{"id":58574,"date":"2013-07-17T20:49:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T02:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mecham-named-to-school-board\/"},"modified":"2013-07-18T02:49:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T02:49:14","slug":"mecham-named-to-school-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mecham-named-to-school-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Mecham named to school board"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=df4bd0de-7eb3-4097-a702-cda3f4bd3245&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"564\" height=\"580\" alt=\"Mecham\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Mecham<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mecham and his wife are former educators, and have five children in the Dolores schools from pre-school to sixth grade, a good incentive to get involved, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDolores schools are one of the best, and I want to see what I can do to help keep that going,\u201d said Mecham. \u201cOne of my first goals is to improve communication between students, parents, teachers and the community \u2013 to keep everyone in the loop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mecham praised the faculty, describing it as \u201cworld class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe group they have is amazing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As a board member his approach is simple: \u201cGive teachers the tools they need and get out of the way. Let them do what they do well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the new school expansion, Mecham urged the community to be patient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are always unforeseen circumstances with a project that large,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is important to communicate the process so people understand what is going on with their school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mecham\u2019s plans to run for a full two-year term when his seat is up for election in November. His family is from North Carolina, and he recently moved to Dolores from Moab, Utah. He loves to coach sports, and is the general manager at Aarons in Cortez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mechamdu1-i-syn Mecham and his wife are former educators, and have five children in the Dolores schools from pre-school to sixth grade, a good incentive to get involved, he said. \u201cDolores schools are one of the best, and I want to see what I can do to help keep that going,\u201d said Mecham. \u201cOne of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[103,188,155,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-58574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores-schools-re-4a","tag-dolores-star","tag-education","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58574","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=58574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58574"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=58574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}