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Three APS board members are elected without union backing

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The teachers union in New Mexico’s largest city will have fewer friends on the school board next year, after three board candidates won Tuesdays election

Created: July 06, 2021 08:12 PM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- The New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED) wants everyone back in the classroom in August. “We think our schools have been very safe,” Sec. Ryan Stewart said. “We would highly encourage everyone to make sure that you know you have a safe school to be able to send your kids back to.” The NMPED is not requiring that every school have online options, but every family should still have access, Stewart said. “What we are...

"I was very disheartened to learn that the New Mexico State Auditor's Office raised concerns that our proposed efforts to compensate you, violated the NM State Constitution. And more specifically, the anti-donation clause," Scott Elder the APS superintendent said

Public school district backtracks on promise to give staff bonus elisfkc2 / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 The pandemic forced educators to d0 a 180 to teach online. “They spent so much time trying to meet the needs of the kids, Ellen Bernstein with the Albuquerque Teachers Federation said. Then more flip flipping transitioning back to in-person instruction. “We spent months negotiating for every single employee, a small recognition for their hard work, during the most difficult years we ever had ...

feature In 2019, Rabbi Jennie Rosenn—a veteran of the Jewish nonprofit world—founded Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action. In March 2021, Steven Spielberg selected the organization, which has quickly sprung into the center of the vibrant climate justice movement, to receive a portion of his million-dollar Genesis Prize. Arielle Silver-Willner: What drove you to start... Read more » feature In 1988, when many people were ignoring ecologists, Rabbi Ellen Bernstein founded Shomrei Adamah (...

Share In 1974, my mother was twenty years old, trying to make it as a theater actress in New York after dropping out of Bennington College. She was in a painting class led by the eccentric Ukrainian-Jewish artist Norman Raeben (the youngest child of the Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem). One day, Bob Dylan showed up unannounced. They were painting abstracts at the time, and when it was my mother’s turn to comment on Dylan’s work she just shrugged. At first, that was the sum of...

APS Classrooms Open For Full In-Person Learning – KOB-TV, Albuquerque Journal, KUNM News Starting today, Mon. April 5, all Albuquerque Public Schools students are able to return to the classroom in person for the first time in over a year. In-person learning is optional for the district’s students. KOB-TV reports the number of APS students expected to return to buildings this week varies, with some schools expecting to see all of their students, and others only about a quarter. APS is allo...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... Classrooms across Albuquerque Public Schools have been prepared for students’ return. Some classes that require close contact will have plexiglass dividers. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal) Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal Highland High School band director Josephine Gonzales knows the...

Parents are concerned about how APS will return to school Share Updated: 6:19 PM MDT Mar 15, 2021 Share Updated: 6:19 PM MDT Mar 15, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript I’M BRITTANY HOPE AND I’M RON BURKE. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT COMES A THOUSANDS OF TEACHERS AND PARENTS ARE PREPARING FOR APS TO RING IN THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR IN THREE WEEKS, BUT WE LEARNED THERE ARE SOME PARENTS WHO ARE NOT GOING TO SEND THEIR KIDS BACK AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FEARS OF THEIR CHILD...