I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Albuquerque Teachers Federation President Ellen Bernstein
Albuquerque Teachers Federation President Ellen Bernstein prefers Sen. Barack Obama’s education platform over Sen. John McCain’s, but she would like her candidate to make a case for throwing No Child Left Behind out instead of trying to fix it.
“Mr. Obama still thinks we can fund it and fix it,” Bernstein said. “I think Obama should come out strongly and say, ‘Get rid of it. It’s another failed Bush policy and we can do better.’ ” Locally, Bernstein said she hopes Senate hopeful Tom Udall and CD1 hopeful Martin Heinrich will be more forceful in their approach to NCLB. Udall, running against Steve Pearce for the U.S. Senate, and former City Councilor Heinrich, who is facing Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White in CD1, have both been endorsed by the ATF.
