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
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: 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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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