NEA-NM urges wise investments in education with new revenue
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Here’s what we propose for the state’s new revenue. Continue Reading
Bill would increase training for educators to detect, report sexual abuse
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The bill seeks $100,000 to provide experts who can train public school administrators and teachers on how to detect and report sexual violence in schools. Continue Reading
Dems again push to use land grant fund for early childhood education
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The House Education Committee on Monday voted 7-6 along party lines to approve the constitutional amendment. Continue Reading
An enduring crisis: Decades after warnings, New Mexico’s children are still in jeopardy
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Thirty years ago, the plight of New Mexico’s children was exposed. So why has nothing changed? Continue Reading
Raising New Mexico: Something must be done for our children. The time is now
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Our goal is to influence the political cycle of the 2018 elections by making child well-being the single most important issue. Continue Reading
Funding issues put pre-K providers at odds while young children miss out on early education
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Instead of cooperating, state and federal programs are competing. Continue Reading
Suffer the children: The devastating lifelong impacts of childhood trauma
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A growing legion of experts regard childhood trauma as one of the most profound and urgent public health challenges in the country. Continue Reading
The weight of abuse: How an obesity clinic sparked one of the nation’s most revolutionary health surveys
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In 1985, a 28-year-old woman walked into Vincent Felitti’s obesity clinic and asked for help. She weighed 408 pounds and she wanted to get thin. Continue Reading
Science reveals severe childhood trauma can alter brain development, creating lifetime of risk
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Today, more than at any other time in history, science and medicine show the vast, interconnected dance between a baby’s outside world and the core of its being: its brain. Continue Reading
Healing from damage of childhood trauma is possible, experts say
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The problems adverse childhood experiences cause — brain impairments, mental illness and disease — are enough to make things sound hopeless. They’re not. Continue Reading
Pre-K solutions: How other states did it
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Oregon, Georgia and Washington, D.C. all have found a way to combine state and federal funding into the same classrooms. Ditto for Oklahoma. Continue Reading
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) quiz
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This survey is a tool to show the health risks you might or might not face. Continue Reading
Children march for more early childhood program funding
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Lines of young children filed into the Roundhouse on Thursday wearing cowboy hats, bandanas and sheriff’s badges for another showdown of sorts over funding for early childhood education. Continue Reading
The education equation in the governor’s State of the State speech
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Martinez said New Mexico had made progress despite opposition to her proposals. Continue Reading
Will lawmakers make 2018 the year of the child?
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Additional funding for health care and early childhood programs are among the proposals on the table. Continue Reading