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.
Clovis Municipal Schools approved an application to form a gay-straight alliance at Clovis High School Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico announced.
“We are very pleased that the CMS superintendent has clearly and unequivocally stated that a gay-straight alliance is welcome at Clovis High School,” said ACLU of New Mexico Executive Director Peter Simonson.
ACLU-NM had been pushing for Clovis Municipal Schools to approve the group. Thursday, the ACLU received a letter from the school district urging the approval.
In part, the letter from Cuddy & McCarthy, LLP, which represented the district, read:
Please consider this letter as the “approval” you requested and permission for G/SA to immediately begin holding meetings after school at Clovis High School…Supt. Myers has directed the principal of Clovis High School to immediately contact the G/SA “applicants” and make arrangements for the G/SA to begin holding its meetings at the time and place requested in the application.
Previously, the school district stopped all extracurricular clubs from meeting during school hours. The superintendent claimed this had nothing to do with the gay-straight alliance.
Gay-straight alliances are used to stop bullying and “stand up for safety and equality,” according to the national umbrella organization for the clubs.
There are 45 gay-straight alliances in high schools, universities and other youth groups across the state, according to the New Mexico Gay-Straight Alliance Network
