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A new dawn in New Mexico
Hello! My name is Amanda Aragon and, after months of planning, convening and dreaming, I’m excited to announce the launch o...
NewMexicoKidsCAN: The New Mexico Campaign for Achievement Now launches, begins education advocacy
ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Today, Founder and Executive Director Amanda Aragon announced the launch of NewMexicoKidsCAN: The New Mex...
NewMexicoKidsCAN begins education advocacy
NewMexicoKidsCAN will focus on policy-making in support of its mission to provide every child with access to a quality educa...
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...
Op-ed: New Mexico’s Kids Deserve Great Public Schools So We’re Launching NewMexicoKidsCAN
So many things make New Mexico enchanting. There are sunsets over the Sandia Mountains, adobe buildings with hundred-year his...
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...
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...
Thirty days, 80 new laws and half-hearted progress toward great schools
The majority of our state lawmakers think that New Mexico kids can wait for change. Last month, elected officials adjourned t...
5 takeaways from ABF’s Grow NM Education panel
On March 22, 2018, Albuquerque Business First ran an article by Ron Davis on key takeaways from the publication's Grow NM Ed...
Will we accept failure?
What happens when a public elementary school fails for six years straight? That’s a kid’s entire journey from kindergarte...
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...
Education advocacy nonprofit responds to school turnaround plans
Albuquerque, N.M. - Today the New Mexico Public Education Department sent its final call for Albuquerque Public Schools to si...
New Mexico Is First State to Approve School Turnaround Plans Under the Every Student Succeeds Act. But Will Adult Politics Now Keep the Kids Waiting?
On June 5, 2018, The 74 published an op-ed by NewMexicoKidsCAN Executive Director Amanda Aragon regarding the Albuquerque Pub...
This Week’s ESSA News: Nation’s First Turnaround Plan Gets Green Light, Feds Approve Plans for North Carolina and Nebraska, How Opt-Outs Will Work & More
“Recently, officials from Albuquerque Public Schools signed off on the nation’s first school turnaround plans under the E...
A Win: Teacher preparation program evaluations released
Our teachers have teachers, too—and on Tuesday, the New Mexico Public Education Department released a set of report cards f...
NM student scores rise across board on PARCC, though most remain behind on reading, math benchmarks
Albuquerque, N.M. - Scores released today show that students across New Mexico posted major gains in math and English langua...
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...
Local nonprofit responds to education funding lawsuit
Albuquerque, N.M. – A state judge ruled today that New Mexico is falling short of delivering its constitutional promise of ...
Charter schools target New Mexico’s at-risk students
On August 16, Searchlight New Mexico published an article by Ed Williams on charter schools in New Mexico and quoted NewMex...
Are New Mexico public schools making the grade?
Our public school students are back in class this month, but they’re not the only ones who get grades. Our schools receive ...
Lessons from the summer of education data releases
What would you do with 1,000 more of something that mattered to you? A few days ago, New Mexico found itself in that situatio...
NewMexicoKidsCAN’s 2019 Policy Priorities
Next Tuesday New Mexico’s legislators will climb up the steps of the Roundhouse to kick-off our state’s 54th legislative ...
We Are Celebrating – NewMexicoKidsCAN Turns One
TODAY, NEWMEXICOKIDSCAN CELEBRATES OUR FIRST ANNIVERSARY
It's hard to believe, but it's true: NewMexicoKidsCAN is celebrat...
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...
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...
State Assessment Results Reveal Need for Stability & Continuity in New Mexico’s Education System
Today, the New Mexico Public Education Department released results from the 2018-2019 assessment in English Language Arts (EL...
NewMexicoKidsCAN’s 2020 Policy Priorities
In less than one week, New Mexico's legislators will gather in Santa Fe for another 30 day legislative session. NewMexicoKids...
Charting a Path Forward for New Mexico’s Students
While I do not have all the answers, I know this: our work is more important than ever. Our students are counting on us–a...
Education at Home: Things to Know About Online Learning
As thousands of schools across the country close to prevent the spread of COVID-19, many schools are considering transferring...
A Roadmap to Education Resources for New Mexico Parents
It’s been only four days since Governor Lujan Grisham announced that students would not return to their school buildings th...
New Mexico Schools Will Remain Closed for the Remainder of the Academic Year
Santa Fe, N.M. - New Mexico’s approximately 330,000 students will not be returning to school this academic year according ...
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 Report Summarizes Plans for “Learning From Home” for Every New Mexico School District and Charter School
Albuquerque, N.M. - On Tuesday, April 6, NewMexicoKidsCAN will release a new report, “Continuing to Learn” which summar...
Learning Leaders – Solare Collegiate Charter School
Earlier this month, we released our Continuing to Learn report featuring summaries of the distance learning plans of every Ne...
Learning Leaders – Cottonwood Classical Preparatory School
Welcome to Learning Leaders! This week, we are bringing you our interview with John Binnert, the executive director of Cotton...
Learning Leaders – Cobre Consolidated School District
This week, we are bringing you our interview with the associate superintendent and coordinator of school improvement of Cobre...
New Mexico Approved for Pandemic-EBT Program
Santa Fe, N.M. - Approximately 71% of New Mexico students are now eligible to receive benefits via a recently approved applic...
20/20 Keeping Our Eyes on NM’s Students
Today marks the start of the eighth week that New Mexico students are adjusting to the new reality of learning-from-home. Whi...
Learning Leaders – 5 Takeaways
Last month,we launched our new #LearningLeaders blog series in which interview New Mexico school districts and charter school...
Learning Leaders – Alamogordo Public Schools
For this week of Learning Leaders, we interviewed Cara Malone, the deputy superintendent of Alamogordo Public Schools.
Learning Leaders – TNTP
This week, we interviewed one of the New Mexico based partners of TNTP, Tim Hise.
Learning Leaders – Horizons Albuquerque
In our last post of our Learning Leaders series we interviewed the executive director of Horizons Albuquerque, Juaquin Moya.
Special Legislative Session: Education Preview
New Mexico legislators are reconvening in a special session beginning on Thursday with one primary purpose: balance the budg...
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...
My Commitment to the Fight
I celebrated my birthday on September 16th...
I spent the morning reflecting on my past and the year that lies ahead. Like...
New Mexico Schools Cleared to Re-Open in Hybrid
Santa Fe, N.M. - During today’s State of the State address, Governor Lujan Grisham announced that New Mexico’s public sch...
NOW ANNOUNCING: NewMexicoKidsCAN’s 2021 Policy Priorities
New Mexico’s 2021 Legislative Session has commenced. Just as Covid-19 has impacted every part of our lives, it has also imp...
Meet Daniel Macy, External Affairs Manager
Hi! I am Daniel Macy, External Affairs Manager for NewMexicoKidsCAN, a nonprofit that advocates for community informed, stude...
National Team
A new dawn in New Mexico
Hello! My name is Amanda Aragon and, after months of planning, convening and dreaming, I’m excited to announce the launch o...
NewMexicoKidsCAN: The New Mexico Campaign for Achievement Now launches, begins education advocacy
ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Today, Founder and Executive Director Amanda Aragon announced the launch of NewMexicoKidsCAN: The New Mex...
NewMexicoKidsCAN begins education advocacy
NewMexicoKidsCAN will focus on policy-making in support of its mission to provide every child with access to a quality educa...
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...
Op-ed: New Mexico’s Kids Deserve Great Public Schools So We’re Launching NewMexicoKidsCAN
So many things make New Mexico enchanting. There are sunsets over the Sandia Mountains, adobe buildings with hundred-year his...
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...
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...
Thirty days, 80 new laws and half-hearted progress toward great schools
The majority of our state lawmakers think that New Mexico kids can wait for change. Last month, elected officials adjourned t...
5 takeaways from ABF’s Grow NM Education panel
On March 22, 2018, Albuquerque Business First ran an article by Ron Davis on key takeaways from the publication's Grow NM Ed...
Will we accept failure?
What happens when a public elementary school fails for six years straight? That’s a kid’s entire journey from kindergarte...
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...
Education advocacy nonprofit responds to school turnaround plans
Albuquerque, N.M. - Today the New Mexico Public Education Department sent its final call for Albuquerque Public Schools to si...
New Mexico Is First State to Approve School Turnaround Plans Under the Every Student Succeeds Act. But Will Adult Politics Now Keep the Kids Waiting?
On June 5, 2018, The 74 published an op-ed by NewMexicoKidsCAN Executive Director Amanda Aragon regarding the Albuquerque Pub...
This Week’s ESSA News: Nation’s First Turnaround Plan Gets Green Light, Feds Approve Plans for North Carolina and Nebraska, How Opt-Outs Will Work & More
“Recently, officials from Albuquerque Public Schools signed off on the nation’s first school turnaround plans under the E...
A Win: Teacher preparation program evaluations released
Our teachers have teachers, too—and on Tuesday, the New Mexico Public Education Department released a set of report cards f...
NM student scores rise across board on PARCC, though most remain behind on reading, math benchmarks
Albuquerque, N.M. - Scores released today show that students across New Mexico posted major gains in math and English langua...
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...
Local nonprofit responds to education funding lawsuit
Albuquerque, N.M. – A state judge ruled today that New Mexico is falling short of delivering its constitutional promise of ...
Charter schools target New Mexico’s at-risk students
On August 16, Searchlight New Mexico published an article by Ed Williams on charter schools in New Mexico and quoted NewMex...
Are New Mexico public schools making the grade?
Our public school students are back in class this month, but they’re not the only ones who get grades. Our schools receive ...
Lessons from the summer of education data releases
What would you do with 1,000 more of something that mattered to you? A few days ago, New Mexico found itself in that situatio...
NewMexicoKidsCAN’s 2019 Policy Priorities
Next Tuesday New Mexico’s legislators will climb up the steps of the Roundhouse to kick-off our state’s 54th legislative ...
We Are Celebrating – NewMexicoKidsCAN Turns One
TODAY, NEWMEXICOKIDSCAN CELEBRATES OUR FIRST ANNIVERSARY
It's hard to believe, but it's true: NewMexicoKidsCAN is celebrat...
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...
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...
State Assessment Results Reveal Need for Stability & Continuity in New Mexico’s Education System
Today, the New Mexico Public Education Department released results from the 2018-2019 assessment in English Language Arts (EL...
NewMexicoKidsCAN’s 2020 Policy Priorities
In less than one week, New Mexico's legislators will gather in Santa Fe for another 30 day legislative session. NewMexicoKids...
Charting a Path Forward for New Mexico’s Students
While I do not have all the answers, I know this: our work is more important than ever. Our students are counting on us–a...
Education at Home: Things to Know About Online Learning
As thousands of schools across the country close to prevent the spread of COVID-19, many schools are considering transferring...
A Roadmap to Education Resources for New Mexico Parents
It’s been only four days since Governor Lujan Grisham announced that students would not return to their school buildings th...
New Mexico Schools Will Remain Closed for the Remainder of the Academic Year
Santa Fe, N.M. - New Mexico’s approximately 330,000 students will not be returning to school this academic year according ...
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 Report Summarizes Plans for “Learning From Home” for Every New Mexico School District and Charter School
Albuquerque, N.M. - On Tuesday, April 6, NewMexicoKidsCAN will release a new report, “Continuing to Learn” which summar...
Learning Leaders – Solare Collegiate Charter School
Earlier this month, we released our Continuing to Learn report featuring summaries of the distance learning plans of every Ne...
Learning Leaders – Cottonwood Classical Preparatory School
Welcome to Learning Leaders! This week, we are bringing you our interview with John Binnert, the executive director of Cotton...
Learning Leaders – Cobre Consolidated School District
This week, we are bringing you our interview with the associate superintendent and coordinator of school improvement of Cobre...
New Mexico Approved for Pandemic-EBT Program
Santa Fe, N.M. - Approximately 71% of New Mexico students are now eligible to receive benefits via a recently approved applic...
20/20 Keeping Our Eyes on NM’s Students
Today marks the start of the eighth week that New Mexico students are adjusting to the new reality of learning-from-home. Whi...
Learning Leaders – 5 Takeaways
Last month,we launched our new #LearningLeaders blog series in which interview New Mexico school districts and charter school...
Learning Leaders – Alamogordo Public Schools
For this week of Learning Leaders, we interviewed Cara Malone, the deputy superintendent of Alamogordo Public Schools.
Learning Leaders – TNTP
This week, we interviewed one of the New Mexico based partners of TNTP, Tim Hise.
Learning Leaders – Horizons Albuquerque
In our last post of our Learning Leaders series we interviewed the executive director of Horizons Albuquerque, Juaquin Moya.
Special Legislative Session: Education Preview
New Mexico legislators are reconvening in a special session beginning on Thursday with one primary purpose: balance the budg...
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...
My Commitment to the Fight
I celebrated my birthday on September 16th...
I spent the morning reflecting on my past and the year that lies ahead. Like...
New Mexico Schools Cleared to Re-Open in Hybrid
Santa Fe, N.M. - During today’s State of the State address, Governor Lujan Grisham announced that New Mexico’s public sch...
NOW ANNOUNCING: NewMexicoKidsCAN’s 2021 Policy Priorities
New Mexico’s 2021 Legislative Session has commenced. Just as Covid-19 has impacted every part of our lives, it has also imp...
Meet Daniel Macy, External Affairs Manager
Hi! I am Daniel Macy, External Affairs Manager for NewMexicoKidsCAN, a nonprofit that advocates for community informed, stude...
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