To improve our schools, spend more in the classroom
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Unfortunately, too much of New Mexico’s school spending has gone to categories that don’t make a difference for students. Continue Reading
Judge says reunited migrant families can now face a choice: Stay locked up together, or separate again
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The Justice Department asked for the order to ensure that migrant parents who would otherwise have been detained can’t “bootstrap a right to release” just because they’re reunited with their children. Continue Reading
Charter schools target New Mexico’s at-risk students
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And while many see some success, they’re not without controversy. Continue Reading
It’s hard to manage your credit when you’ve never heard of ‘interest’
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New Mexico is among the states looking at how to increase financial literacy through education courses and other means. Continue Reading
Detention center for immigrant children in Tornillo will stay open through mid-September
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The immigration detention facility for undocumented immigrant minors will remain open another month, officials confirmed Friday. Continue Reading
Hours after deadline, government lays out plan for reuniting kids with deported parents
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The plan places a heavy burden on the American Civil Liberties Union. Continue Reading
At prison reform meeting, Trump praises Texas’ ‘very successful’ DACA challenge
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The Trump administration has promised to phase out the Obama-era immigration program. Continue Reading
Texas investigating reports that a child died after leaving ICE facility
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The family’s lawyer said the small child ‘tragically died after being detained by ICE in unsanitary conditions.’ Continue Reading
Judge hears Texas’ challenge to DACA in Houston
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The hearing focused on what harm the program has done to the state, if DACA violated federal procedures and what took Texas so long to file its lawsuit. Continue Reading
Creative thinking brings child-care center to Jal
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The innovative new child-care center brings together two state programs under one roof in a way that had never been done before. Continue Reading
Federal agency sent immigrant kids to dangerous youth facility despite serious warning signs
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By the time the federal government started sending immigrant children to Shiloh Treatment Center in 2009, the warning flags were waving blood red. Continue Reading
Las Cruces schools set up first PreK classes
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The new preschool classes are part of the Public Education Department’s $4.37 million expansion to 11 school districts that didn’t have NM PreK programs in place. Continue Reading
‘We can do it and do it right.’ Roswell puts pieces in place for preschool
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Those efforts may create a blueprint for early childhood expansion into rural areas throughout New Mexico. Continue Reading
The government hasn’t found 410 migrant parents deported without their kids
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For every migrant parent federal officials fail to locate, U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw said, “there will be a permanently orphaned child.” Continue Reading
A tale of revenge and immigration leaves a mother of American kids locked up in Texas
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A mother of three U.S. citizens says she believed all her life she was an American. But after she helped put away a relative who sexually abused her child, her life unraveled. She’s languishing in immigration detention. Continue Reading