Education

New Charter Schools Get Early Lesson in Budget Cuts

    The federal Education Department in August rescinded $2.5 million in promised funding for startup charter schools in New Mexico, leaving a dozen recently...

Board Backs Maruska’s Media Policy

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in the Nov. 24 edition of the Rio Grande SUN. An audio excerpt of the relevant portion of...

After Nearly a Decade, Alcalde Still Unsettled

    More than nine years after it began planning to build a new Alcalde Elementary, the Española School Board still doesn’t know what size...

Students at Middle, High Schools Raise Assault Charges

    Española Police have taken two reports recently about inappropriate touching of students in the Española School District.     In each of the incidents, students...

Schools Lack Textbooks

    Nine weeks into the school year, at least two Española School District elementary schools do not have textbooks for their first-grade students.     Louanna...

Super. Shuffles School Officers

    Both Española School District school resource officers from last school year have been moved back to regular patrol for the 2011-12 school year...

Northern Researchers Get into Tiny Technology

    A Northern New Mexico College research team spent the summer studying how to more efficiently harvest energy from our solar system’s largest celestial...

Charter Supporters Pitch Schools to State

    Days before the start of the 2011-12 school year, organizers and supporters for two prospective Española-area charter schools made their pitch to the...

Northern’s Next Regent?

    Northern New Mexico College’s newest student president has some big ideas for his school next semester, including asking college officials and lawmakers to...

Student Ambassador Meets Prominent Latinos

    One local student got the chance to travel to the nation’s capitol this summer to meet with several influential Latinos as part of...

Teacher Fired in Wake of Altercation

    An Española School District teacher who was arrested after allegedly breaking a student’s nose in May is fighting back after being fired by...

Ousted Super. Picks Up Second Job While on Leave

     About a month after the Española School Board put her on paid administrative leave, outgoing superintendent Janette Archuleta began working as a contractor...

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