Education

Special School Board Meeting on Construction Issues Thursday

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LAPS News:

The Los Alamos School Board will hold a Special School Board Meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14 in Room 149 at Los Alamos Middle School on Hawks Drive.

Agenda items include an update on Aspen Elementary School construction, selection of the Aspen Elementary controls contractor, and the request of action on the Aspen Elementary Modification Change Request.

Other items include an update on LAMS construction, LAMS contract construction extension and a request for action on the LAMS Modification Change Request. Read More

Education Funding 101: What the Vote in Colorado Means for Los Alamos

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Education Funding 101: 
What the Vote in Colorado Means for Los Alamos
by Save Our Schools Los Alamos

This past Tuesday, two-thirds of voters in Colorado cast ballots against Amendment 66, the most comprehensive education reform package the state has considered in almost two decades. The measure would have added almost $1 billion to Colorado’s K-12 education system.

The legislation failed to pass for several reasons. The anti-tax people voted against it, believing that the economy remains fragile and that now is a bad time to raise taxes. (A household with an income of $58,000 Read More

NJROTC Hosts Micah Jay Andersen Shoulder to Shoulder and Brain Brawl Competition

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NJROTC News:

Saturday Nov. 1, the Los Alamos High School Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (NJROTC) unit hosted the Micah Jay Andersen Shoulder to Shoulder and Brain Brawl Competition. This event was the first of its kind in Area 9, which includes seven states and 60 schools.

The Los Alamos unit named the competition after a former cadet and LAHS graduate who was injured in Afghanistan by an IED and is now recovering in San Antonio.

The competition was held in the ROTC building at the high school and had six competing schools, including West Mesa High, Santa Fe High, Belen High, Montrose Read More

Student Enrollment Plays Critical Role in LAPS Funding

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Student Enrollment Plays Critical Role in LAPS Funding
By Dr. GENE SCHMIDT, Superintendent
Los Alamos Public Schools

One of the most critical factors in funding Los Alamos Public Schools is student enrollment. To generate funding for schools, the State averages the enrollment of the 80th and 120th day of school. The district’s enrollment was multiplied by a dollar value $3818 per student to create a formula that helps to explain the State Equalization Guarantee (SEG). For the School Year SY2013-14, the State provided roughly $25 million in SEG for our district’s educational budget of approximately Read More

Chamisa Honors Veterans at Special Event

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Chamisa honored veterans Friday. Courtesy photo

Chamisa honored veterans Friday. Courtesy photo

Chamisa honored veterans Friday. Courtesy photo

CHAMISA News:

Chamisa Elementary School in White Rock honored veterans Friday at a special lunch ceremony. The special event included 29 veterans, a flag ceremony by Pack 20 Scouts, patriotic songs by primary students, and presentation of letters and cards from students wearing red, white and blue.

Veterans joined their hosts for lunch and each veteran was individually announced and recognized for his or her service. The gym was ablaze with Read More

PEEC Program Explores What Turkeys Eat for Thanksgiving

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Wild turkey. Courtesy photo

PEEC News:

Most people think of a turkey as a golden brown plucked bird that comes out of an oven. But since we have native wild turkeys in New Mexico, why not spend a few minutes thinking about them having dinner instead of being dinner?

Leslie Dendy, a University of New Mexico – Los Alamos professor for the last 40 years, will discuss the surprisingly broad diet of wild turkeys, why they have big appetites, and the unique way in which they grind up their food. The program will take place at the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) from 10:30 a.m.-noon Saturday, Read More

UNM-LA Winds Up Film Series With Dr. Strangelove

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UNM-LA News:

The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) will feature Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb, Nov. 14, as the final installment in the Composition Cinema I: A Film and Lecture Series.

The host for Dr. Strangelove will be UNM-LA Associate Professor, Mickey Marsee, and the discussion will center around her course theme of the mad-scientist in fiction and film.

Dr. Strangelove is Stanley Kubrick’s black satire about the nuclear apocalypse scare of the 1950s and 60s. Starring Peter Sellers, the film is loosely based on Red Alert, Peter George’s Read More

School Board Meets Tuesday

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LAPS News:

The Los Alamos School Board will hold a closed Executive Session at 5 p.m., Nov. 12 at the Los Alamos High School Athletics Conference Room to discuss pending litigation per Section 10-15-1-H(7) of the Open Meetings Act.

The board’s Regular meeting, which is open to the public, will follow in the Los Alamos High School Speech Theater. An agenda for this meeting is posted at the district office. One item to be discussed is a report from the Study Group for Teachers Concerns.

If special accommodations are required, notify the secretary to the superintendent 72 hours before the board Read More

LAHS Makes AP District Honor Roll!

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LAHS AP teachers from left, first row, Anita Boshier, Margo Batha, Allen Andraski, Barb Musgrave, second row from left, Stephanie Mitchell, Lorraine Martinez, Brian Easton, Kathy Boerigter, Louise Gentile, Lee Goodwin, Jon Lathrop, Mike Montano, Sally Shockey, Joy Handsberry and Judy Nekimken. Not pictured, Lynn Ovaska, Catherine Puranananda, Todd Yilk and Christy Marcotte. Courtesy photo
 
LAPS News:

Los Alamos Public Schools is one of 477 school districts in the U.S. and Canada being honored by the College Board with placement on the Fourth Annual AP® District Honor Roll for increasing

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