{"id":69981,"date":"2016-09-13T01:38:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T07:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/grand-opening-set-for-new-online-charter-school\/"},"modified":"2016-09-13T07:38:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T07:38:21","slug":"grand-opening-set-for-new-online-charter-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/grand-opening-set-for-new-online-charter-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand opening set for new online charter school"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c85c8d1e-b041-415c-9283-77a523bf272d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1271\" alt=\"Students enrolled in Colorado Connections Academy schools receive needed materials from the school.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Students enrolled in Colorado Connections Academy schools receive needed materials from the school.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Connections Academy file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Colorado Connections Academy @ Durango opened this year for students in kindergarten through 10th grade, and will add 11th and 12th grades in subsequent years, according to a news release. The first Colorado Connections Academy opened in 2002 in Mapleton. The Durango school is authorized by Durango School District 9-R.<\/p>\n<p>The online learning program allows students to work at their own pace on a flexible schedule from anywhere with an internet connection, according to a news release. The students work with licensed Colorado teachers and a parent or adult learning coach monitors progress at home. The school is taking enrollments for this school year.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration will include remarks about the program, a demonstration of the online classroom and give enrolled students and interested students and their families a chance to meet faculty and staff.<\/p>\n<p>The event starts at 4:30 p.m. at Colorado Connections Academy @ Durango headquarters, 150 Tech Center Drive, Suites C and D.<\/p>\n<p>The Getting Started event starts at 6:30 p.m. at the DoubleTree Hotel, 501 Camino del Rio.<\/p>\n<p>Enrolled and perspective students and their families are encourage to RSVP online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connectionsacademy.com\/colorado-online-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">connectionsacademy.com\/colorado-online-school<\/a> under the \u201cFind out more\u201d tab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students enrolled in Colorado Connections Academy schools receive needed materials from the school.Courtesy Connections Academy file Colorado Connections Academy @ Durango opened this year for students in kindergarten through 10th grade, and will add 11th and 12th grades in subsequent years, according to a news release. The first Colorado Connections Academy opened in 2002 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1183,21,1086,155,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-69981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-charter-schools","tag-cortez","tag-durango-school-district-9-r","tag-education","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69981","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=69981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69981"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=69981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}