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.
Massachusetts, New York, Hawaii, Florida, Rhode Island, D.C., Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina, and Ohio won money Tuesday in the second round of the Race to the Top federal grant program, which is sending more than $4 billion to reform-minded states and Washington, D.C.. Tennessee and Delaware won in the contest’s first-round this year.
Not a single state in the American West won money, although Colorado is viewed as a leader in education reform, critics noted. New Mexico didn’t make the finalist cut in either the first or second rounds. Some say the program favored population-dense states.
Some are noting the curious geographical clustering of the 12 winners from the two rounds, according to the New York Times. Eleven of the winners were east of the Mississippi, with the lone geographical exception being Hawaii. Many were on the East Coast, including Florida, Georgia, New York, Massachusetts, Delaware, Maryland, Rhode Island and the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. Tennessee and Ohio were the only states in the country’s mid-section to win money.
