LAHS Students Honor Tyler Van Anne
Classmates of Los Alamos High School student Tyler Van Anne, who died today, painted the White Rock rock this evening in his honor. Photo by Kateri Morris
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Support Systems Gathering at Teen Center Thursday
TEEN CENTER News:
Los Alamos Teen Center Director Sylvan Sierra Argo together with other local organizations is pulling together various support networks at the Teen Center for Thursday.
What will be available for teens so far:
- Michelangelo Lobato will be at the Teen Center on and off throughout the day;
- Aimee Schnedler (grief counselor) will be at the Teen Center on and off throughout the day;
- Kim Secrest (has a Masters in art therapy and counseling) will be facilitating creative/art processing/expression activities after school;
- Fuller Lodge Art Center is donating art supplies for the
LAHS Grief Counselors Prepare For Thursday
Prepare for Finals … Join ‘Just Do It Study Group!’
Sopahn Kellogg prepares study note cards as DC Kim helps a fellow student with chemistry. Courtesy photo
Jacqui Hargraves focuses on math while Elsa Guinoiseau, a native French speaker supports students with their French homework and Caleb Crutella completes an assignment. Courtesy photo
Staff Report
Band Booster Poinsettia Sale is On
BAND BOOSTER News:
The Los Alamos High School Band Booster Annual Poinsettia Sale is on, with beautiful locally grown plants in two sizes (4.5 inch pot and 7 inch pot) and three colors: traditional vibrant red, winter white and a glitter plant that is a mix of red and white.
Contact your local Los Alamos High School Band student to place your order. If you don’t know a local Band Student, contact Karen Mehlin at 505-570-0202 to be directed to one.
Deliveries will be made within Los Alamos County on the date of your choice. Read More
Los Alamos Middle School Hosts Book Fair
LAPS News:
Los Alamos Middle School is hosting a Book Fair this week, with special hours from 4-7 p.m. Thursday.
Tours will be given for community members who would like to see the new building. The holidays are the perfect time to give the gift of reading and the LAMS book fair has gifts for all ages.
Volunteer slots are also available from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday.
To learn more or to sign up, call Lisa Whitacre at 505.663.2391. Read More
Education 101: Save Our Schools Los Alamos Meets With NMPED Deputy Secretary Aguilar
Education 101:
Local Supplements to Operating Expenses
Representatives of Save Our Schools Los Alamos met with Deputy Education Secretary for Finance and Operations Paul Aguilar Friday, Nov. 22 to discuss a letter we sent to Secretary-Designate Skandera back in September. The letter argued that the State of New Mexico should deal with its education funding crisis by allowing local jurisdictions to provide operating supplements to promote school quality above the minimum Read More
Winter Tree Care – Come Ready to Learn!
PEEC News:
Laural Hardin is back at the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) to talk about all the things you can do to help trees survive the winter and come out strong in the spring.
She will cover topics such as water, tree wrap, and basic pruning. The presentation will also consider how changing climate effects tree dormancy, and what can be done to boost tree vigor and growth. This talk focuses mostly on non-native urban trees, but will include ponderosa, pinon and juniper.
Hardin is a certified arborist and integrated pest management specialist. She specializes Read More
School Board Accepts Letter to Skandara With Minor Changes
Los Alamos School Board from left, Vice President Judy Bjarke-McKenzie, President Jim Hall, Matt Williams, Kevin Honnell and David Foster. Courtesy/LAPS
Staff Report
During Tuesday’s Special Board meeting of the Los Alamos School Board, members discussed the recommendation of the Study Group for Teacher Concerns for a letter to Secretary of Education Hanna Skandera.
The letter explains Los Alamos teacher concerns for the rapid implementation of several initiatives by the New Mexico Public Education Department, including a new teacher observation protocol.
The School Board Read More
Business/Community Leaders Turn Out For LAHS’s Career Night
Los Alamos High School senior Tyler Mullens welcomes business leaders and students to Monday’s Career Fair. Members of the Los Alamos Community representing more than 50 career choices, including architecture (Keith R. Barras of Mosaic), medicine (Nurse Joyce Rachins), financial services, information technology, cybersecurity (Tadeusz Raven of Attack Research), engineering (Merrick & Co.), hospitality, entertainment (Jean Gindreau of PAC 8 and Kelly Stewart of LA County), journalism (Carol A. Clark of Los Alamos Daily Post), non-profit (Jeremy Varela of United Way), Read More
‘Thankful Dinner’ Served at Barranca Mesa Elementary
Resource Teacher Dawnmarie Shipley’s 6th grade students participate in a ‘Thankful Dinner’ during lunchtime Monday at Barranca Mesa Elementary School. Twenty-one attendees were treated to a bountiful of homemade traditional Thanksgiving food. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com
Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com
Schools, LANL, County on Regular Hours Today
Staff Report
Los Alamos Public Schools, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Los Alamos County are operating as usual today with no delays announced.
LAPS makes the decision to close school or delay the start of school, by 5:30 a.m. in order to notify bus drivers, school employees, and parents in a timely manner. Such announcements are made via the media of television, radio and websites.
LANL’s update information hotline indicates the Laboratory is on a normal operating schedule today.
Los Alamos County also is on a normal operating schedule today.
The following County facilities will Read More
Education 101: Save Our Schools Los Alamos Meets with NMPED
Education 101: On Friday, Nov. 22, Save Our Schools Los Alamos met with Deputy Secretary Paul Aguilar of the New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) to ask that PED modify its policies and allow local jurisdictions to supplement K-12 education operating funds with local monies, a practice currently prohibited in New Mexico but something that is practiced in most other states.
Save Our Schools Los Alamos will meet with members of the Los Alamos Public Schools Administration, Read More
School District Announces School Closures Policy
LAPS News:
As winter approaches, we anticipate days when weather will present a challenge for school transportation either because of ice or snow or both.
These will be the days when school is delayed, cancelled, or dismissed early. The decision to close school or delay the start of school will be made by 5:30 a.m. in order to notify bus drivers, school employees, and parents in a timely manner. The announcement will be made via the media of television, radio and websites.
Major local network television stations will be contacted when a decision to delay, close, or dismiss early is made. Information Read More
CNM and ENMU Team Up to Offer Online Degree
CNM News:
Central New Mexico Community College has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) that allows students taking career technical education courses at CNM – such as drafting, welding and culinary arts – to obtain a Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences (BAAS) from ENMU.
This online degree will allow students to continue their education and, if desired, earn a degree exclusively online. Read More
School Board Reschedules Three Meetings
LAPS News:
The Los Alamos School Board has scheduled an Executive Session at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 26 in the Aspen Elementary principal’s office to discuss limited personnel matters, specifically the evaluation of Superintendent of Schools Gene Schmidt, as allowed in the Open Meetings Act NMSA1978, Section 10-15-1 (H) (2).
The Los Alamos School Board will hold Special School Board meeting Nov. 26, following the Executive Session at Aspen Elementary School’s gymnasium. The agenda item to be discussed is possible action on a letter to Secretary-Designate Skandera at the Read More
Special School Board Meeting, Executive Session and School Board Work Session Rescheduled
LAPS News:
The Special School Board Meeting, Executive Session, and School Board Work Session that were scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, at Aspen Elementary have been rescheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 26 at Aspen Elementary Gymnasium.
Los Alamos Public Schools will post the Notices and Revised Agendas for the Special School Board Meeting, Executive Session as well as the School Board Work Session later today. Read More
Sufficient Funding for Schools Doesn’t Quite Seem Like Enough
Sufficient Funding for Schools Doesn’t Quite Seem Like EnoughThe 1974 New Mexico Public School Finance Act was promoted as “one of the most innovative of the school finance plans currently being used across the country” (Sturgis 1). Key to the school finance plan was the intent by the legislature to meet the obligation of the New Mexico Constitution which called for “a uniform system of free public schools sufficient for the education of and open to all children of school age in the state shall be established and maintained” (Sturgis
Ben Lujan Honored Posthumously
NMVC News:
ALBUQUERQUE—New Mexico Voices for Children is honoring four exceptional people at its annual Spirit of Hope Awards Ceremony this weekend. Speaker of the House Ben Lujan will be honored posthumously with the Alice King Public Service Award. Frank Sanchez, who is known, among other things, as one of the lead plaintiffs in New Mexico’s first successful Voting Rights Act lawsuit, will receive the Patty Jennings and Polly Arango Citizen Advocacy Award.
“Speaker Lujan really embodied the spirit of what a citizen legislator should be,” said Veronica C. García, Ed.D., Executive Read More
Educators Wear Black in Statewide Day of Action to Take Back Joy of Learning
By Charles GoodmacherToday is the statewide day of action in New Mexico to take back the joy of learning, time for teaching and professionalism in public education.
In schools across New Mexico, education employees will wear black to express outrage against the Governor’s policies that are failing our schools, our students and our state, including the new teacher evaluation system which is largely based on standardized test scores. Teachers in many communities will also hold marches, rallies and other actions Read More
