Twenty four Los Alamos students celebrated on a Bateaux Mouche on the Seine their high school graduation and their 12 days traveling through Europe. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
Students at the top of Galeries Lafayette. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
View from the Padlock Bridge. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
Cliff Rudy, left, and Bob Walker from the Los Alamos Duplicate Bridge Club play Bridge with Cory Liechty, left, and Rebekah Lockhart, both 5th graders at Pinon Elementary School. Courtesy photoStaff Report
Members of the Los Alamos Duplicate Bridge Club are offering free bridge lessons for students in Grades 4-12. These lessons are also being sponsored by the County Recreation Department.
Classes for kids in Grades 4-7 are being held at the White Rock Library 10:45 a.m. to noon Thursdays. Classes for students in grades 7-12 are being offered 1:30-3 p.m. Fridays in the downstairs Read More
LAPS News
Los Alamos High School garnered national attention this past week when the Washington Post added LAHS to its 2013 “America’s Most Challenging High School” list.
Earlier in the year, US News & World Report and Newsweek included Los Alamos in their top high schools for 2013.
“I have been rating the most challenging schools in the country since 1998,” said Jay Mathews, creator of the Challenge Index and education columnist for the Washington Post. “This is by far the oldest national rating of our best schools, and the only one that focuses on how hard schools are working to raise Read More
Linda Daly and Michael Wismer share personal stories about UNM-LA during an interview at the college Friday. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.comThe University of New Mexico-Los Alamos is holding a special election Sept. 17, to ask local residents to approve a two mil increase in support of the campus
This will be the first operational increase since the Branch Campus was formed in 1980.
Linda Daly and Michael Wismer are former UNM-LA Advisory Board members who serve on the Los Alamos Committee for Higher Education, which is comprised of a group
The Eiffel Tower is tres magnifique for 24 graduating seniors from Los Alamos touring Europe on an educational trip of a lifetime. The students are discovering Paris. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
Deep thinking underway at Versaille. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
LAPS News:
The Los Alamos School Board will meet in Executive Session at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 27 to discuss a specific personnel issue
The board also will discuss the acquisition or disposal of real property per Section 10-15-1-H(8) of the Open Meetings Act.
The meeting is closed to the public. Read More
NM Drops to 50 in Nation for Child Well-being in 2013 KIDS COUNT Data BookALBUQUERQUE—For the first time New Mexico has fallen to the bottom slot—ranking 50 in the nation in overall child well-being in the 2013 national KIDS COUNT Data Book.
New Mexico has never ranked above 40 in the publication’s 20-plus year history, but this is the first time the state has ranked dead last. Last year, New Mexico ranked 49 and Mississippi was 50. The data book, released annually by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, ranks the 50 states on 16 indicators of child well-being, Read More
Twenty-four graduating seniors from Los Alamos are touring Europe on an educational trip of a lifetime. After a long climb, they reached the top of Mt. Pilatus. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
The students view a stone lion in Lucerne. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
The group dines at their quaint Swiss Hotel. Photo by Lynn Ovaska Read More
Twenty-four graduating seniors from Los Alamos are touring Europe on an educational trip of a lifetime. Here they are cooling off at the fountain in Innsbruck, Austria. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
Students pose outside the Swarovski Crystal World. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
LAPS News:
Principal Sandy Warnock has announced that Los Alamos High School was on Newsweek magazine’s 2013 America’s Best High School list.
Los Alamos was ranked 780 from a group of the top 2,000 high schools in the nation.
“Once again I am reminded what a wonderful staff and student body we have who work hard to achieve their best,” Warnock said. “It is confirmation that what we do is making a difference in improving student achievement.”
Newsweek lists those high schools that have have proven to be the most effective in turning out college-ready graduates. The list is based on six Read More