Education

Members of the Los Alamos School Board may attend the Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking New Mexico Public Education Department Public Hearing for Healthy Universal School Meals. The hearing is 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 29 in Mabry Hall at the Jerry Apodaca Education Building in Santa Fe. A Quorum may be...

Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren recently signed an executive order directing all schools with Navajo students, whether on or off the Navajo Nation, to allow them to wear traditional regalia at their commencement ceremonies. This comes after a Farmington (N.M.) Municipal Schools graduating senior, Geneses White Bull (Hunkpapa Lakota of...

(TNS) — Desert Sage Academy Principal Joshua Rhine doled out a few pieces of wisdom Tuesday afternoon. Move your tassel from right to left, he told the students sprawled across the bleachers of the school's gym. Walk with the appropriate cadence — not too fast or too slow.

Detail from ‘Bunte Stäbchen (Colored Sticks)’ Wassily Kandinsky. 1928. Tempura. Courtesy/The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY. Santa Fe Institute (SFI) presents Community Lecture “Just Machine Learning” with Tina Eliassi-Rad, Northeastern, SFI, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at The Lensic Performing Arts Center. We...

Austin Fisher is a journalist based in Santa Fe. He has worked for newspapers in New Mexico and his home state of Kansas, including the Topeka Capital-Journal, the Garden City Telegram, the Rio Grande SUN and the Santa Fe Reporter. Since starting a full-time career in reporting in 2015, he’s aimed to use journalism to lift up voices that typically go unheard in public debates around economic inequality, policing and environmental racism. He currently writes for Source NM at sourcenm.org.

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – A new era of Horsemen basketball is set to begin. St. Michael’s announced the hiring of former Clayton coach Dakota Montoya on Wednesday. “We are delighted to welcome Coach Dakota Montoya to the St. Michael’s family,” said Joshua Grine at St. Michael’s High School. “His proven track record, combined with his […]

SANTA FE – MANA del Norte is accepting scholarship applications for the 2024-2025 academic year. The application deadline is June 14, 2024. Applicants must identify as Latina/Hispana and be a current resident of one of the following northern New Mexico counties: Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe, San Miguel or Taos.

Will more school days help New Mexico’s students?. Capital High School history teacher Sarah Holmes says she’s been “really feeling the stress lately” at work. Legislation passed in the 2023 session extended the high school’s calendar this year by 100 hours and added more professional development hours for teachers. Santa Fe Public Schools also recently switched to a different grading standard for its students. In addition, students and staff continue feeling effects from the COVID-19 pandemic—in both academic achievement and student engagement.

SANTA FE — The School for Advanced Research (SAR) has announced the recipients of the 2024–2025 Native Artist fellowships: Kevin Aspaas (Navajo), Lynda Teller Pete (Navajo), and Sheridan MacKnight (White Earth Chippewa, Hunkpapa Lakota). Each year SAR’s Indian Arts Research Center (IARC) offers three residential fellowships to support...

The former Santa Fe Waldorf School, a private K-12 school which abruptly shut down two weeks before the start of the school year last August, has a possible path to re-open— this time as a publicly-funded charter school named the Sangre de Cristo Public Waldorf School. The school is...

The Executive Council of Santa Fe College will meet on May 14, 2024, at 3:30 p.m. in Building P, Room 160. The meeting will also be available via Zoom. It will start with a quorum call and the approval of the minutes from the previous meeting.

Six years after surviving a gunshot wound to the head in the Santa Fe High School shooting, Rome Shubert hung up his baseball cleats, closing out his college career at Sam Houston. The tragedy of May 18, 2018, where ten lost their lives, left an indelible mark on Shubert, but the determined athlete refused to be defined by it. In a statement obtained by the Houston Chronicle, Shubert expressed the weight of that day, "From my shoulders down to my stomach was red." He survived through the chaos and the screams, found the courage to run for safety, and started a long fight to recovery, choosing to focus on his faith, family, and the love for baseball.

SANTA FE — Santa Fe Community College and the Santa Fe Higher Education Center will be closed Monday, May 27, in honor of Memorial Day. No classes or activities will be held and no other student services will be available. The college’s early childhood development center, Kids Campus, and the William C. Witter Fitness Education Center also will be closed.

Ninth Judicial District Judge Dustin Hunter on Friday issued a temporary restraining order against the state Public Education Department’s controversial rule requiring all districts operate with a minimum of 180 instructional days beginning with the 2024-2025 school year. In announcing the rule in March, PED Secretary Arsenio Romero described it as “key to turning the tide on academic performance in the state.” The New Mexico School Superintendents Association and more than 50 school districts last month filed a lawsuit against PED and Romero seeking an injunction against the rule. Stan Rounds, executive director of the New Mexico Coalition of Education Leaders, which hosts the New Mexico School Superintendents Association, tells SFR the purpose of the lawsuit is to “get immediate relief from this rule for this year.” The lawsuit’s primary argument states the rule is unenforceable because it directly conflicts with state statute. Santa Fe Public Schools, which joined in the lawsuit, is now in a holding pattern in finalizing its budget—as are all school districts—pending resolution of the complaint. A hearing is slated for May 13. At an SFPS budget study session last week, Superintendent Hilario “Larry” Chavez said the 180-rule, which he and others characterize as an unfunded mandate, is one of several factors creating a “perfect storm” as it relates to the SFPS budget. “We all want better student outcomes,” Chavez said during the meeting, “but when you’re not investing appropriately, it makes it difficult, because you’re going to have to make cuts.”

Alamogordo High School is to be congratulated for having an active film class and an educational team that is committed to providing opportunities for these students. Alamogordo High School has had a robust program for the last several years.

Santa Fe Public Schools faces a “perfect storm” of challenges in next year’s budget as schools are left to deal with low state funding, loss of pandemic relief money and a Public Education Department mandate requiring an extended calendar year, according to Superintendent Hilario “Larry” Chavez, who laid out the factors at the Board of Education’s May 2 budget study session.

It’s infrequent that House Republicans and Santa Fe Public Schools agree on anything.  This week, however, has demonstrated politics sometimes does make strange bedfellows. On April 18th, 60% of New Mexico’s school districts – including Santa Fe - filed a lawsuit against the Public Education Department (PED) for mandating 180 instructional days beginning next school year. New Mexico House Republicans have been banging the drum on this very issue for more than 5 months because this new...

The Santa Fe High School softball team will have a game with Capital High School on May 01, 2024, 17:00:00 CST.