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Bipartisan legislation passed by Congress empowers educators as trusted professionals to make school and classroom decisions, while keeping the focus on students most in need. Continue Reading
Center for Public Integrity stories have detailed ongoing controversies involving cops in schools across the nation. Continue Reading
Our children are also a precious resource, yet we continue to allow them to rank at the bottom of the nation in well-being. Continue Reading
Still in his first year on the job, Attorney General Hector Balderas says he was most surprised when he took office to learn “how few resources were being devoted to protecting children in New Mexico.” Continue Reading
Since we all benefit from our public school system, we all have a stake in seeing it improved. Therefore, we all have a responsibility to let our lawmakers know what changes we would like to see. Continue Reading
We’ve been prosecuting public officials for a decade. We’ve approved piddly, incremental reforms. We’re still plagued by corruption. We need to push our government to embrace widespread, systemic reform. Continue Reading
If we pass the permanent-fund initiative, the fund continues to grow at a good rate, but we also invest much more in our children, and that pays an even more valuable and longer-lasting dividend. Continue Reading
Last week’s news was disappointingly familiar: New Mexico ranks 49th in child well-being in 2015. Again. Continue Reading
COMMENTARY: Gov. Susana Martinez would be wise to take note of the other states that have recognized the bleak future Common Core presents school-age children. Continue Reading
New Mexico has ranked among the worst states in which to be a child for so long that it hardly seems like news anymore. Continue Reading
We knew the 99.8 percent claim could not be supported by facts. That would mean only two of every 1,000 teachers were rated as unsatisfactory by their district administrators. Continue Reading
A Las Cruces church’s refusal of state funding appears to be a driving factor in its decision to close a daycare center. Now that decision has some parents scrambling to find other child-care options. Continue Reading
The state’s Public Education Department says it doesn’t have documents to back up a claim it repeatedly used to discredit an old teacher evaluation system when it implemented a new system in 2013. Continue Reading
Oklahoma ended its failed experiment in mandatory flunking because it cost taxpayers millions of dollars, hurt students, and took away parents’ rights. Continue Reading
Furloughs and program cuts are tried and true ways to reduce budget lines, but they don’t exactly inspire confidence in school staff and in the community as a whole. Continue Reading