The Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 School District will not appeal a Colorado Department of Education decision to deny the district a higher accreditation rating.
The district had asked the state to increase its rating one rank from “priority improvement” because a low percentage of students took the standardized tests on which the rating is based. Re-1 has had the same rating, which is second from the bottom, for six consecutive years. The state did grant the district’s request to change ratings for the high school and middle school to “accredited with insufficient data”. School-board president Jack Scheuenemeyer says this means the district will have to develop a priority improvement plan. He said the state’s decision was disappointing.
“We want to be able to move ahead and we would be in a better position to do that if we didn’t have to do the extra work that the insufficient data rating requires,” Schuenemeyer said.
Click below to hear Schuenemeyer's full interview with KSJD's Austin Cope.
