Education

Alcalde, Velarde Schools Merger Discussed

    A passionate Velarde community showed up in force at a town hall meeting on Aug. 1 to uniformly oppose a proposed merger of...

Children Lament Teachers Aide’s Retirement

      When it came time for Judy DeVargas to retire at the end of the school year from her position as kindergarten assistant at...

Law Change Forces School Board Member to Resign

    Española School District Board member Patrick Herrera announced at the July 25 school Board meeting he plans to officially resign his seat Aug....

4-H Experience Big Part of County Fair activities

    If you are showing lambs to judges at a fair, “you want to find (the lambs’s) spot, like what will help them –...

A Boy with a Camera

    Tomas Maestas is, by all accounts, a very quiet, shy and intellectual boy of 7 years old.     Yet, his ability to express what...

Española Improves English Scores

PARCC results in throughout Rio Arriba County     The Española School District experienced an increase in English scores but math scores District-wide refused to budge.   ...

Lawmakers Question State Authority Over Dulce Schools

This story was originally published in the Rio Grande SUN on July 19, 2018. As the Dulce Independent School District continues to go through its...

P.E., Health Teacher Dispensed Wisdom, Friendship

Larry Rogal’s love for sports and coffee were just some of the things his students remembered about him as he set off for Michigan...

A Mighty Greenhouse Effect

    Española Municipal Judge Stephen Salazar, with help from various city officials, has expanded the Keep Española Beautiful Program by opening a city-funded greenhouse...

State Blocks Dulce Schools From Changing Improvement Plan

This story was originally published in the Rio Grande SUN on July 12, 2018. The New Mexico Public Education Department rejected requests from the Dulce...

Math Teaching Moves in ‘Circles’

    In an effort to make teachers, and in turn their students, more enthusiastic about math, college mathematicians organized three nights of non-traditional “math...

Having Something to Say

    Three months after being appointed as a non-voting member of the Española City Council, Española Valley High School graduate Maurissa Maestas is finding...

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