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Opinion: APS should support student choice

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Sep 17, 8:35 AM: Albuquerque students who choose to attend traditional district schools or charter schools are all public school students in our city. It’s time for adults to stop making false divisions between traditional district schools >

APS school board postponed proposed new charter school moratorium

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Sep 2, 11:31 AM: Albuquerque Public Schools wants the state to stop building more charter schools but at Wednesday night’s school board meeting, there was plenty of pushback on the idea.

Lawmakers concerned about extended learning time

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Aug 25, 10:22 AM: State lawmakers expressed concern Tuesday about a large number of public schools that aren’t participating in programs extending classroom time to help improve outcomes for students and address the 2018 ruling in the >

Legal review: Some New Mexico charter school admission policies may be discriminatory

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Aug 23, 1:14 PM: A private law firm’s partial review of charter school admissions practices found some state-funded institutions in New Mexico are violating state rules by requesting information about prospective students’ >

Several New Mexico schools shift to remote learning model

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Aug 16, 3:54 PM: A number of schools in New Mexico will move to a remote learning model, over the next two weeks, due to rising positive COVID numbers.

Desert Sage Academy becomes Santa Fe school district’s only online option

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Aug 4, 11:23 AM: Braden’s incoming pupils — guided by a crew of fewer than a dozen teachers and support staff — will include all ages. Some will be in the building; others at home. Some may have an interest in computer science or robotics; >

Growing enrollment expected at local private school

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Jul 30, 9:19 AM: Superintendent Rick Rapp, who also serves as pastor at the affiliated Gateway Church International, said that enrollment at Chaves County’s largest private school now totals 410 for kindergarten to 12th grade, up from 375 >

Over 100 students enrolled in Las Cruces newest charter school opening in August

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Jul 28, 2:24 PM: Explore Academy Las Cruces, the cities newest charter school is preparing to open its doors to students across the community, just in time for the upcoming school year. Casedy said what makes their charter school unique, >

N.M. schools budget only 9 percent of federal relief funds to address learning loss

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Jul 23, 4:06 PM: New Mexico students paid dearly as a result of school closures brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. By some estimates, students may have lost up to a year of learning. But instead of devoting big hunks of federal relief >

Proposal for new Santa Fe charter school draws support

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Jul 23, 4:03 PM: A proposed Santa Fe charter school focused on science, the arts and social-emotional learning — and founded by former employees of the public school district — received strong support Thursday during a hearing before the >

State Network Lets Schools Share Online Courses

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Jul 22, 10:50 AM: During the pandemic, the Public Education Department required school districts to offer online learning options, but that won’t be the case this coming school year. Still, some students may prefer it. On Wednesday, the >

Innovate ABQ parochial school to become bioscience lab

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Jul 16, 10:53 AM: Shovels could break ground early next year to turn the two-story parochial school attached to the old First Baptist Church Downtown into a modern bioscience lab for startup companies.

Most New Mexico students will spend more time in school next year

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May 24, 6:09 AM: About 60% of New Mexico K-12 students will spend additional time in school next year based on preliminary reports of expected participation in the state’s two extended-learning-time programs.

PED: 51% of NM public school students back in classrooms

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Apr 22, 7:05 AM: More than half of New Mexico public school students are back in the classroom according to the New Mexico Public Education Department. Albuquerque Public Schools reports some campuses are in the 30% range and all the way >

Las Cruces teachers convince board not to extend school year because they are ‘wiped out’

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Apr 21, 5:41 AM:

Overworked teachers at Las Cruces Public Schools are pleading that the district keep its existing calendar year, but school board members must vote to extend classroom time or risk losing millions of dollars in funding. >

If voters OK education aid, difficult choices await

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Apr 16, 5:44 AM:

If the proposal passes, it would be up to legislators and the governor to determine how to spend the money. The ballot measure is expected to generate about $127 million a year for early childhood education and $85 >

If voters OK education aid, difficult choices await

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Apr 16, 5:44 AM: If the proposal passes, it would be up to legislators and the governor to determine how to spend the money. The ballot measure is expected to generate about $127 million a year for early childhood education and $85 million >

Bills on governor’s desk encourage longer school year

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Mar 23, 5:35 AM: New Mexico legislators are doing almost everything they can – short of making it mandatory – to get public schools to extend the school year as part of a strategy to boost academic achievement.

New Mexico legislative session reshapes education spending

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Mar 22, 6:16 AM: New Mexico lawmakers approved short-term measures to help schools recover from the pandemic and finalized sweeping educational funding reforms that could affect child development for decades to come.

Commentary: New Mexico Students and Parents Need School Choice Now

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Mar 19, 5:16 AM: Even before the pandemic, the New Mexico education system has performed poorly. Despite the continuous and ever-increasing stream of money from the state designated for education, we consistently rank as one of the worst, >