Feds reject NM education plan; Senate should reject its author
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New Mexico senators need to bite the bullet and vote to send Hanna Skandera packing before they wind up their current legislative session. Continue Reading
It’s time for a new vision for our state
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Every day we are distracted by menial education reforms or grandstanding on driver’s licenses is another day lost. Continue Reading
Asking ‘Doctor No’ for an affirmative for early learning
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As one doctor to another, I respectfully ask Senator Smith to become “Doctor Yes” for our smallest residents and most valuable and vulnerable resource. Continue Reading
Let voters decide on funding for early learning services
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The proposal to increase early childhood education funding is a chance to make a huge difference in the futures of tens of thousands of New Mexico children. Continue Reading
It’s time to embrace education reforms
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According to one report, New Mexico loses 71 students every school day. We cannot maintain the status quo – it’s not working. Continue Reading
Now is the time for tax-credit scholarships
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Enacting tax-credit scholarship legislation will enable lower-income and special-needs students to attend schools that will better meet their needs. Continue Reading
Teen parents ask legislators to help them stay in school
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VIDEO: Dozens of teen parents gathered at the state capitol Tuesday to ask legislators to help improve graduation rates for pregnant and parenting teens. According to nationwide statistics, only 38 percent of teen moms graduate high school by the time they’re 22. Continue Reading
How to overcome simple, easy to understand, wrong answers
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All school districts must step up to the 21st Century in education. Here are some interventions that have worked and will work if the politicians get out of the way and the schools adopt best practices from states and districts where they have gotten their students on grade level. Continue Reading
Just another ‘job creation’ scheme
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Tax cuts. Really? At a time when the state is barely beginning to recover from having slashed hundreds of millions of dollars from the budget, Governor Martinez wants to cut revenue even deeper by cutting taxes? Continue Reading
Article explores school district’s racial, religious tensions
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An in-depth article published Sunday by the Farmington Daily Times explores the racial and religious turmoil behind division in the Central Consolidated School District in the northwest corner of the state. Continue Reading
The new Tower of Babel
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The 21st Century Tower of Babel has been constructed and the intent clearly is to confound the narrative in order to dismantle the finest, most democratic and enabling institution this country has ever had, public education. Continue Reading
What is the mission of higher education?
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New Mexico institutes of higher education received more than $2 billion in funding from the state this year. But to what end? Continue Reading
An a-historical war against public education
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What bothers me most about the current war against public education is that it is a-historical. It is as if schools suddenly went bad a few months ago or coincidentally with Jeb Bush needing something to keep himself busy when his term of office in Florida expired. Continue Reading
Stopping boy behavior or bullies
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There are concerns that bullies may be getting worse in our society, especially in public schools. Maybe we need to teach our children to band together to stop them. Continue Reading
The scam: Fire two teachers and call me in the morning
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“Fire two teachers and call me in the morning” seems to be the cure-all that neoliberal and right-wing activists are banging their drums for. The next move after the “A-B-C-D-F” scam will be to legislate recognition of mail-order teaching degrees from online diploma mills. Continue Reading