Education

LAHS Moves Registration Paperwork Online

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LAHS News:

  • No More Paper Forms to Complete for the Beginning of School Year!

Course selection is just a few days away and will be available on PowerSchool Feb. 10. While selecting your courses online in PowerSchool, LAHS would like you to complete all of the paperwork for the next school year, 2014-15. In previous years, you had to complete the forms (i.e., OTC permission, Permission to Participate, etc.), print them out and return them to LAHS. Now, you can complete the forms early and online!
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Before starting course selection, go online to FamilyID www.familyid.com. You might be familiar with Read More

New Mexico STEM Education Week Celebration

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STATE News:

SANTA FE—Community members, students, PreK-20 educators, STEM advocates, industry professionals, state agency education professionals and elected officials will come together Feb. 7 to celebrate “NM STEM Education Week in the House” in the Capitol Rotunda.
 
NM STEM Education Week is the result of a memorial co-sponsored by Rep. Mimi Stewart, Sen. John Sapien and Sen. Gay Kernan. The memorial encourages the public education department, the higher education department and the private sector each work to advance the following goals:

  • Certify 1,000 new science and mathematics
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LAHS Athlete Mike Walker Signs With Fort Lewis

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Los Alamos High School cross country athlete Mike Walker signed a National Letter of Intent with Fort Lewis in Durango, Colo., over the lunch hour Wednesday. Fort Lewis is a NCAA Division II college that competes in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. From left, Coach Rob Hipwood, Mike Walker and his father Warner Walker. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com

From left, Coach Rob Hipwood, Los Alamos High School athlete Mike Walker, his father Warner Walker and Coach Kathy Hipwood. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com
 
From left, Coach Rob Hipwood, Mike Walker, his father
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School Board Meets Tuesday

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LAPS News:

The Los Alamos School Board will meet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11 at the  Los Alamos High School Speech Theater, 1300 Diamond Dr.

The agenda items include:

  • Approval of Agenda
  • Approval of Minutes for Board Retreat Thursday, Dec.19, 2013
  • Approval of Budget Adjustment Requests
  • Ratification of January Cash Disbursements
  • Request for Proposal Update
  • January Journal Entry Report
  • Student Dress Code
  • Audit Report
  • 2014-15 Budget Committee Charter and Selection of Members
  • Revised 2014-15 School Calendar
  • Living Skills
  • Teacher Evaluation Committee Charter and Selection of Members
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UPDATE: Luján Announces Congressional App Competition for High School Students

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UPDATE: Submission period is open until 5 p.m. EDT
U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján

U.S. Congressional News:

SANTA FE—U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico’s Third District announced details today for the first annual Congressional Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Academic Competition, “The House Student App Challenge.” 

High school students from the Third District can compete by creating and exhibiting their software application, or “app,” for mobile, tablet or computer devices on a platform of their choice. The winning entry from Read More

Los Alamos AP Students and Staff Honored at State Capitol

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Los Alamos Public Schools students and staff honored Tuesday on the floor of the Senate at the State Capitol. Photo by John McHale/LAPS

Los Alamos Public Schools students and staff honored Tuesday at the State Capitol Rotunda. Photo by John McHale/LAPS

Gov. Susana Martinez congratulates Los Alamos students for their hard work in the classroom. Photo by John McHale/LAPS

By Dr. Gene Schmidt, Superintendent
Los Alamos Public Schools

Los Alamos Public Schools students and staff were honored at the State Capitol Rotunda and on the floor of the State Senate Tuesday, Feb. 4. Senate Education Chair Read More

Los Alamos School Board to Evaluate Superintendent

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Superintendent Gene Schmidt

LAPS News:

The Los Alamos  School Board will hold a Special School Board Meeting at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10 at the Los Alamos Public Schools Administration Building, Conference Room A (in basement area.) 

Following roll call at Monday’s meeting, a motion to go into a closed Executive Session will be made to discuss limited personnel matters, specifically the evaluation of the Superintendent per Section 10-15-1-(H)(2) as allowed in the Open Meetings Act NMSA1978.  Read More

LAHS Key Club Holds Rummage Sale to Combat Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus

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A previous rummage sale in the LAHS Speech Theater. Courtesy photo

LAHS News:

Each day about 160 newborns die from tetanus, a painful disease that causes excruciating convulsions and is contracted during unhygienic childbirth practices. Tetanus is a highly preventable disease that has virtually disappeared from the industrialized world, but it continues to affect mothers and their babies in developing countries. With The Eliminate Project, Kiwanis and Key Club have joined forces with UNICEF to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus.

This Saturday from 9 to noon at the LAHS Speech Theater Read More

La Tierra Montessori PTA Supports ‘Hearts for Berrendo Middle School Project’

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La Tierra Montessori students create some 100 hearts for Berrendo Middle School. Courtesy photo

LTM PTA News:

La Tierra Montessori School for the Arts and Science in Española recently formed an official Parent Teacher Association. PTA President Ben Sandoval and fellow PTA officers are working together to build a strong team in order to empower and further unify parents, students and the faculty at La Tierra Montessori School.

Within the first month of establishing the new PTA, the group collaborated with teachers and students of the lower, middle and upper level classrooms to reach out to Read More