Mancos School Board President Discusses School Safety, Responds to Allegedly Fabricated Threat

KSJD | By Austin Cope

Published March 2, 2018 at 7:30 AM MST

Community members shared a flier discussing proposed security updates and remodels to the Mancos Schools' campus during their campaign to approve a school bond measure in November 2017.

Emotions in the town of Mancos are still running high after an allegedly fabricated threat closed schools on the afternoon of February 23rd. KSJD's Austin Cope spoke with Mancos School Board President Blake Mitchell to hear his thoughts about the issue and about broader questions of school safety. Click below to listen.

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Austin Cope is a former Morning Edition host for KSJD and now produces work on a freelance basis for the station. He grew up in Cortez and hosted a show on KSJD when he was 10 years old. After graduating from Montezuma-Cortez High School in 2010, he lived in Belgium, Ohio, Spain, northern Wyoming, and Himachal Pradesh, India before returning to the Cortez area. He has a degree in Politics from Oberlin College in Ohio.

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