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RE-1 Accreditation: What It Means for the District and the Community

The Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 school district has been on a five-year accreditation improvement plan for the past five years, and they’ve now entered year six.

The district doesn't risk losing their accreditation any time soon, but the scores matter for a school district’s state and federal funding. The accreditation scores for the district are based on how well 3rd- through 9th- grade students perform on a test called PARCC, or Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. But the district says there’s an issue with the way those scores have been applied. To re-cap what that issue is and to hear more about where the district is at with their appeal on its accreditation scores, KSJD's Austin Cope sat down with district superintendent Lori Haukeness.

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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