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Chance over choice: Charter school lotteries open this month in Durango

‘You’ll have parents calling in desperate,’ Mountain Middle’s director says

DATE: Jan 13, 2026 | CATEGORY: Local News

Mountain Middle School receives excellence award for fourth consecutive year

Charter also earns top state accreditation for 10th time

DATE: Jan 7, 2026 | CATEGORY: Local News

Mountain Middle School experiences high test results after expanding grades

Head of school attests cultural expectations for the school’s success

DATE: Sep 12, 2023 | CATEGORY: Local News

The Juniper School charter status renewed for two years

Durango School District 9-R approves status under new financial reporting conditions

DATE: Feb 16, 2023 | CATEGORY: Local News

Bayfield School District application for chartering authority approved by state

Ascent Classical Academy likely to apply for charter

DATE: Feb 16, 2023 | CATEGORY: Local News

Animas High School begins semester in new $19 million building on FLC campus

Building includes a makerspace, science lab, music room and open-space concept

DATE: Jan 20, 2023 | CATEGORY: Local News

Ignacio School District denies Ascent Classical Academy’s application for a charter

Parents from outside the area flooded a meeting, but board members had too many questions and concerns about proposal

DATE: Nov 4, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado Board of Education denies Ascent’s appeal for Durango charter in 4-3 vote

State board members argue pros and cons of 9-R’s decision to reject charter school application

DATE: Oct 17, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Ascent appeals Durango 9-R’s denial of charter school application

Classical academy says review process was unfair; review hearing set for Sept. 14

DATE: Aug 15, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Montezuma-Cortez school board closes Manaugh, delays closure of Pleasant View

Delay would give Pleasant View community time to develop a charter school

DATE: Jun 30, 2022 | CATEGORY: Education

Residents speak for, against Ascent Classical Academy Durango

School board members to interview charter school representatives Friday

DATE: Jun 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Durango School District 9-R agrees to review Ascent Classical Academies’ application

Board announces a timeline for upcoming public meetings

DATE: May 19, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Photos: Durango High School basketball teams lose to Montrose High School

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday