Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-day series exploring how a $621 million cut in state spending is increasing the educational gap in Southwest Colorado. The series continues today on Page 12A. Part 1 published last Wednesday.
More than 500 Ute Mountain Ute students are bused each morning to schools in the Montezuma-Cortez School District. But the tribe is developing a charter school on the reservation, where Ute students from across the district may be immersed in culture-based learning