{"id":61645,"date":"2014-03-13T23:58:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T05:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-school-board-oks-state-suit\/"},"modified":"2014-03-14T05:58:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T05:58:14","slug":"mancos-school-board-oks-state-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-school-board-oks-state-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos school board OKs state suit"},"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=c6c49ac4-71c6-4e5f-8a23-a64ffab8f152&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"150\" height=\"217\" alt=\"Hanson\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Hanson<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a member of the Colorado Rural Schools Caucus, the Mancos school district would have been a part of the suit anyway.<\/p>\n<p>But this will give them a poster-child role, Superintendent Brian Hanson said.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to force the state to increase education funding because it is an election year.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent budget cuts left the district running a $133,000 deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Amendment 23 requires the state to increase funding for schools by inflation each year after 2010.<\/p>\n<p>But starting in the 2008-09 school year, the state has cut budgets.<\/p>\n<p>Each year since the 2010-11 school year, the state has determined a flat figure to designate to school funding and then reduced funding to that level by cutting each district by the same percentage.<\/p>\n<p>This deduction is called the \u201cnegative factor,\u201d and Mancos schools lost $67,000 to it this year.<\/p>\n<p>Dolores Superintendent Scott Cooper said that this year, the  school district\u2019s budget has been cut by $961,344, with an expected $912,407 cut next year.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past five years, his budget has been cut by $3.1 million, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this \u2018negative factor\u2019 continues, we will have to cut deep into the classrooms, directly affecting the students\u2019 educational future and the economic future of Colorado.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:mshinn@cortezjournal.com\">mshinn@cortezjournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hansondu1-i-syn As a member of the Colorado Rural Schools Caucus, the Mancos school district would have been a part of the suit anyway. But this will give them a poster-child role, Superintendent Brian Hanson said. The goal is to force the state to increase education funding because it is an election year. The most recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,392,1351],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-61645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-mancos-school-district-re-6","tag-public-finance"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61645","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=61645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61645"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=61645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}