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Telluride Schools Prepare to Accept Rico Students After School Closure

photo courtesy of Rebecca Pugh

After the Rico School closes in June, the Telluride schools will accept its students, according to Dolores County Schools Superintendent Bruce Hankins. He communicated news of the school closure in a letter to Rico community members Friday. Hankins says he has also reached out to the Telluride Schools to discuss a possible annexation of Rico’s School-- as long as voters in the Dolores County and the Telluride School District approve. To get Telluride’s take on the possible annexation, as well as the impacts they will see from the Rico school closure, KSJD's Austin Cope spoke with superintendent of the Telluride Schools, Mike Gass.

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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