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.
The state’s largest school district will see a $22 million budget cut in the upcoming fiscal year, and more than 70 percent of the money designated for salaries will go to teachers and educational assistants, according to the Albuquerque Journal. The budget for Albuquerque Public Schools will be $594 million after a 3.3 percent cut from the legislature.
Democrat Diane Denish and Republican Susana Martinez will tackle education at a debate hosted by APS tonight. Martinez says she’d focus on getting more money back into the school classrooms if elected governor. Denish says she’d continue the work she’s already done on improving K-12 education in New Mexico.
Public school teachers, administrators and teacher’s aides will benefit from $2.5 million in federal stimulus funds meant to offset the costs of increased insurance premiums and to expand professional development opportunities, Gov. Bill Richardson announced Monday.
Roughly $2 million…
Albuquerque Public Schools‘s share of extra education dollars Congress approved Tuesday is around $15 million according to latest estimates, a district spokesman said Wednesday.
Under a complicated scenario that assumes APS might be staring at a $19 million budget hole…
Some Albuquerque Public Schools teachers fear the district plans to increase class sizes claiming that their classrooms are already so packed that they violate fire codes daily, reports KOB-TV.
The Rio Grande Sun reports the Española City Council approved an additional $360,000 budget cut for…
New Mexico’s students might have improved their math, science and reading skills over half a dozen years, but state officials announced yesterday that three-fourths of the state’s schools failed to meet this year’s goal for student improvement, according to…
This fall New Mexico will start collecting more data to help solve a serious problem: no one knows exactly how many of the state’s half a million children are obese. While quick to praise the state’s plan this week, local officials, advocates and parents said this week that New Mexico has a long way to go to fully address the problem.
New Mexico’s financially strapped school districts could have received $15 million in “additional bonus money” if Gov. Bill Richardson hadn’t vetoed a measure that would have directed federal stimulus funds to education. But the governor’s office says legislators overstepped their bounds and only governors–not legislatures–can appropriate federal money. Meanwhile, schools are strapped for cash.
New Mexico Secretary of Education Veronica C. García released the following statement Friday afternoon in response to a graduation rate story in this morning’s Albuquerque Journal.
“It is unfortunate that APS jumped the gun, discussed preliminary data and…
“Very possibly” answers The Albuquerque Journal in a story today.
Reporter Andrea Schoellkopf writes that “Albuquerque Public Schools could face immediate cuts of $25 million to $30 million in its $668.5 million budget if the state orders budget cuts…
I’m just as surprised as Albuquerque Journal reporter Charlie Eisenhood, who blogged this week about his shock in finding out that the Albuquerque Public Schools doesn’t allow the distribution of condoms or other birth control.
Meanwhile, New Mexico has…
Former Albuquerque Tribune Editor Phill Casaus has landed another job — this time at Albuquerque Public Schools. Casaus has been named executive director of the Albuquerque Public Schools Education Foundation.
I graduated from Rio Grande High School and now, ten years later it appears the cluster is once again reverting to a failed hierarchical “trickle down” approach. This philosophy and administrative shakeup is not only antiquated, but ignores the lessons and calls from President Obama’s declared “new era of responsibility.” The APS superintendent’s proposal falls short because it fails to give the community ownership or input in the cluster’s successes and failures.
About 1,890 employees and visitors to Los Alamos National Laboratory could have been exposed to beryllium contamination at a storage facility in Los Alamos Canyon, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
Meanwhile, superintendent Winston Brooks has ordered 5 percent…
The chief of Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) has shuffled two South Valley schools in a dramatic gamble to prompt improvement, The Albuquerque Journal reports (sign-up required). Meanwhile, in another part of the state, an oil and gas company
Remember Constitutional Amendment 1, passed by voters on Election Day? While the amendment was approved statewide, in Bernalillo County the measure failed by a razor-thin 50.1 percent to 49.9 percent margin. In other words, the only place in the state affected by the amendment didn’t approve it. Now a legal battle looms.
The Bernalillo County Clerk’s Bureau of Elections put a lot of effort into making sure Thursday’s mock election at five Albuquerque Public Schools was realistic. Staff members conducted forums at each school where several elected officials spoke, provided the real…
