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…
Even though New Mexico didn’t win the money, the state will continue to pursue the education reforms spelled out in its 200-page application for federal Race to the Top education funds, Gov. Bill Richardson‘s new education secretary, Dr. Susanna Murphy, said…
New Mexico once again apparently has missed the cut in the Obama administration’s Race to the Top program, which is doling out federal dollars to states adopted innovative approaches to K-12 education, The Wall Street Journal reported ahead of…
New Mexico is one of nearly three dozen states applying for second-round funding in the federal Race to the Top contest. The state mailed its application to Washington Saturday, Beverly Friedman, spokesperson for the New Mexico Public Education Department,…
More states are dropping out of the Race to the Top contest for additional federal education funds even as New Mexico presses forward.
Could that improve the state’s chances in the second round? New Mexico lost out on $160 million…
New Mexico is struggling to improve public education and the state was not chosen for the first round of Race to the Top education funding. With an eye on innovative programs that might help the state qualify for federal Race to the Top money, our panelists write about what New Mexico should do to improve public education.
In Washington, President Obama has overhauled the nation’s nuclear policy, including for the first time declaring that the U.S. won’t use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states that aren’t trying to acquire such weapons, even if they attack the U.S. using…
By now everyone who follows public education knows Delaware and Tennessee won the first round of the Obama administration’s Race to the Top contest. The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) has a story about how those states aced the test.
Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer apparently wants the Legislature to definitively confer on her the authority to sue the federal government over the recently passed health care reform law, according to AzCapitolTimes blog. But don’t look for a similar…
Foreign aid trickled into Haiti’s devastated capital on Thursday morning as survivors of Tuesday’s earthquake, many of them injured and homeless, woke to another morning with no electricity and dwindling water, to search for the missing and claim their…
Thousands of people in Haiti — including the head of the United Nations mission — remained missing in the rubble of collapsed buildings on Wednesday morning, a day after an earthquake ravaged this impoverished nation, the New York Times…
After 90 minutes of impassioned debate that invoked the sweep of American history, the New Jersey state Senate yesterday voted down a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, the Newark Star-Ledger reports. Gay-rights advocates immediately said they would bring their…
The Obama administration released its final rules Wednesday for Race to the Top, a huge educational initiative meant to reward states undertaking bold school improvement initiatives. New Mexico is eligible for $25-$75 million in funding.
States, including New Mexico, are competing for $4 billion in federal funding for innovative education programs, reports the New York Times. As the story says: “The $4 billion is the most money Washington has ever given to overhaul schools.…
