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New Mexico lawmakers consider child welfare budgets

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s child welfare agencies on Thursday will jockey with other state departments for slim funding as they present their spending requests to state lawmakers. Fr...

DATE: Dec 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Cut off: School closings leave rural New Mexico students isolated

CUBA, N.M. – The midday arrival of a school bus at Cyliss Castillo’s home on the remote edge of a mesa breaks up the long days of boredom and isolation for the high school senior. ...

DATE: Nov 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Teacher vacations one reason to close schools in New Mexico

SANTA FE – On top of the exploding number of COVID-19 cases, school officials are citing another factor for closing down in-person learning – teacher vacations. Worried in part th...

DATE: Nov 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Retailers curb indoor sales as virus surges in New Mexico

Big-box stores can remain open if they offer essential goods, services

DATE: Nov 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico tightens restrictions, virus cases hit new high

SANTA FE – New Mexico officials say they’re “tightening” the definition of essential businesses to exclude some large retailers that sell some essential supplies as the state reports a recor...

DATE: Nov 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico seeks ‘missing students’ as school enrollment drops

SANTA FE – New Mexico education child welfare officials are working to locate 12,000 “missing” students who have stopped attending public school and haven’t notified the state about their ne...

DATE: Nov 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Tribal leaders tackle healthcare, education in annual summit

SANTA FE – The annual Tribal Leadership Summit in New Mexico will focus on the pandemic and post-pandemic recovery, state and local leaders told reporters Monday. “This pandemic h...

DATE: Nov 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Santa Fe schools end in-person learning experiment

SANTA FE – Santa Fe Public Schools is ending a short-lived soft opening of in-person learning as the coronavirus pandemic hobbles the state. “I am announcing today a hiatus of our...

DATE: Nov 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

First Black N.M. senator is progressive Air Force veteran

SANTA FE –A retired Air Force officer from Albuquerque will become the first Black state senator in New Mexico’s 108-year history. In his first attempt at elected office, Democrat...

DATE: Nov 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Remote learning fails many New Mexico students, report says

SANTA FE – As many as four in five New Mexico public school students are failing at least one class in some of the state’s school districts, according to data made public Wednesday by legisl...

DATE: Oct 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Judge won’t force New Mexico to send children back to school

SANTA FE – New Mexico health and school officials can continue to restrict in-person learning for the vast majority of young children based on countywide coronavirus outbreaks after a federa...

DATE: Oct 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico names leader of Native American education reform

SANTA FE – Former Navajo Nation legislative staff member LaShawna Tso has been selected to lead New Mexico’s Indian Education division. The announcement by the Public Education De...

DATE: Oct 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News