Over the next five years or so, the museum will add or renovate 28 exhibits in the Backyard.
The survey, which takes 10 to 15 minutes to complete, is confidential and available in English, Spanish and Vietnamese at NextStepsNM.org.
Senate Bill 4, Lujan Grisham and the bill's co-sponsors agreed, is a step toward alleviating child food insecurity.
Highlands to host business pitch competition
Learning matters Kate Noble
Let's not squander a great opportunity in early childhood investments
A stunning 70-plus% of voters approved spending from the state's Land Grant Permanent Fund for early childhood.
The Bilingual Books and Babies concerts have become somewhat of a staple in the Santa Fe early childhood world.
The experience is designed to ensure opera and all its related art forms — instrumentation, music composition, set and costume design and more — are accessible, said Santa Fe Opera Director of School Programs Charles Gamble.
The learning model been included in the state Public Education Department’s best practices for improving student literacy.
A contractor with an educational cooperative alleges in her complaint she received sexually charged text messages from district Superintendent Albert Martinez, according to a lawsuit. Another woman claims in a lawsuit Principal Richard Apodaca repeatedly asked her to go out with him.
A bill that would have created a panel to study programs that deliver simultaneous credit toward high school graduation and a college degree was vetoed in the final days of the legislative session despite sailing through the Legislature.
After near-constant turnover in recent years, Arsenio Romero says he’ll bring stability to the department.
Former teacher, administrator named Aspen Community School principal
Legislation moving in the Florida House would ban discussion of menstrual cycles and other human sexuality topics in elementary grades.
La Tierra, which serves about 90 students in kindergarten through eighth grade at a facility on Ohkay Owingeh land north of Española, has been subject to scrutiny by the Public Education Commission for months.
HB 130 will mandate an increase in learning time in public schools to 1,140 hours starting next school year.
House Bill 285 would create an Office of Special Education within the Public Education Department to provide parents, teachers and school districts a one-stop shop for all things special education by July 2024.
“I’m here for the long haul,” Arsenio Romero, a longtime educator, said during his initial confirmation hearing.
Tierra Encantada Charter School honored with the Bilingual and Multicultural Education Award
The Arizona Department of Education launched a hotline this week for people to report classroom lessons that use critical race theory or emotional support curriculum.
Commentary Mandi Torrez
Revamp New Mexico’s colleges of education
Quality teachers not only raise student performance through skilled instruction and engagement practices, but the best teachers are also capable of transforming lives.…
Two groups planning to open schools in Santa Fe intend to submit charter applications with the state.
Student projects examined everything from petri dishes of growing cultures to miniature solar-powered windmills.
Veronica García, the effort's chief strategic officer and the former superintendent of Santa Fe Public Schools, said few major themes — or subjects with more than 10% of respondents in support — emerged after more than 700 people were surveyed.
Santa Fe High students are preparing to compete at a national qualifying competition later this month.
New Mexico School for the Arts hosts ArtSpring 2023 student showcase, gala
In a nation that incarcerates roughly 2 million people, the coronavirus pandemic was a nightmare for prisons.
Learning matters
Work-Based Learning has made a difference for kids, employers
Maira Juarez-Martinez, a student at Early College Opportunities High School, loves reporting to work at SITE Santa Fe as an intern.
"We should be complying and making our school better instead of attacking everyone who's trying to make it live up to its charter," said Mateo Peixinho, a La Tierra father who joined Thursday's protest.
New Mexico's Bilingual Multicultural Education Act turns 50 this legislative session.
The regent nominees must be confirmed by the Legislature to assume or continue their roles. If confirmed, they will serve a six-year term ending Dec. 31, 2028.
The youngsters surged toward the collection of stories, sliding books across tables and into their paper bags.
Two New Mexico teachers selected to get $100,000 grants from Society for Science
The lack of available housing in the community and high costs in Santa Fe have spurred the project.
As students work toward one of seven certificates or an associate degree, they also participate in a paid internship program.
Arsenio Romero will be the department's fourth Cabinet secretary since the governor's election in 2018.
House Bill 102 would shift a significant chunk of health care costs from public school teachers to their employers.
House Bills 130 and 194 would require all public schools in the state to reach 1,140 instructional hours per year.
Northern New Mexico College accepting applications for 2023 summer bridge program
Learning matters
Nonprofit outlines education bills
Last fall, Think New Mexico published “A Roadmap for Rethinking Public Education in New Mexico,” which proposed an extensive agenda of recommendations to improve New M…
During the hiring process, former Pojoaque Valley High School Principal Terry Burks failed to disclose the complaints and his termination as manager of the county's former juvenile detention center in 2007.
The south-side school's nearly 450 students in grades 6-8, now learning virtually, haven't been on campus for nearly two weeks, and district officials say no return date has been set.
The appointments come as some lawmakers have expressed concern recently over the high turnover rate in Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's administration.
Pojoaque Valley High School received a call Friday reporting a school shooting threat at the institution, one that seems to fit into a pattern of hoax shooting reports called into schools Thursday across Northern New Mexico.
House Bill 134 would require public secondary schools to provide free menstrual products in some bathrooms.
NASA to fund Monte del Sol Charter School students' science project
NNMC's Hector Balderas is the lowest-paid college president in New Mexico. But he earns by far the highest rate per student.
Though portable ultrasounds aren't new in emergency medicine, this week was the first time Santa Fe Community College students learned to use the technology to better diagnose and treat patients in the field.
Students at Ortiz Middle School are learning remotely again, after a main waterline break early Tuesday morning created unsafe school conditions.
House Bill 102, which would require school districts, charter schools and other educational institutions pay for the first $10,000 of costs, is a priority of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.
The SFPS program with the city helps high school students learn on the job and get paid while in school.
The competition has students present a model city's answers to engineering challenges, specifically climate change.
