Special Session Education Budget Summary
In June, the New Mexico Legislature met in a special legislative session with the goal to amend the previously passed FY21 bu...
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Special Legislative Session: Education Preview
New Mexico legislators are reconvening in a special session beginning on Thursday with one primary purpose: balance the budg...
Read Our New Report, “Continuing to Learn” Today!
Schools across New Mexico are entering their 4th week of school closure, but for many school districts and charter schools ac...
New Mexico Graduation Rate Reaches 10 Year High
Today the New Mexico Public Education Department released graduation rates from the graduating class of 2018. With the releas...
ACT NOW: NMPED Wants Your Feedback
Last Friday, the New Mexico Public Education Department released draft edits to New Mexico's previously approved State Plan...
The Week After: On PARCC scores and the marathon of lasting change
Anything worth doing takes time—education most of all.
If you’ve attended school—sent a child to school, know a chil...
NMPED decides on school turnaround plans, setting their standards high
This month we asked the New Mexico Department of Public Education (NMPED) to set a high bar for turnaround plans in Albuquerq...
Playing politics at the expense of our teachers
UPDATE: On Feb. 14, the House Education Committee voted to unanimously support Senate Bill 119, which would increase the mi...
Lawmakers killed a bill today for teacher pay raises. Give them a call!
Just this morning, a bill to raise teacher pay died in the House Education Committee after a party-line vote of 7 to 6, denyi...
Coming together to put New Mexico’s kids first
For me, the fight for equity in New Mexico’s public schools is personal.
Twice in my childhood, low-performing local sch...