Hansel Burley
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Creating an education pipeline can be a powerful tool for helping the state grow its economy, according to the new head of University of New Mexico’s College of Education and Human Sciences.
During a webinar hosted by the Economic Forum of Albuquerque Wednesday morning, Hansel Burley, who began as dean of UNM’s education and human sciences department last summer, spoke about the school’s role in educating school teachers and administrators and forming collaborations throughout the community.
Burley said creating a pipeline of talented and caring teachers, counselors and other school staffers can not only improve New Mexico’s perennially low rankings in K-12 education, but also act as an economic development tool for the state.
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Members of the Albuquerque Public Schools Board quite simply failed the school district’s 80,000 students and their parents Wednesday night, putting responsibility to do the right thing for our kids in the governor’s and voters’ hands.
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With no scientific data to support keeping schools largely closed, the board rejected a reasonable and safe hybrid in-person learning model proposed by interim Superintendent Scott Elder, who should be frustrated beyond end.
APS elementary schools have been closed to all but some special education students, and middle and high schools have been completely closed, since last March.
School board president David Peercy and board members Peggy Muller-Aragón and Elizabeth Armijo voted in favor of a model that would have allowed some form of hybrid, in-person education beginning in March. But they came up short in a 4-3 vote in which b
One week after Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that K-12 schools across the state can return to in-person learning regardless of their red to green risk designation, most elementary and secondary students remain at home.
While the announcement came as welcome news to a number of students around the state, many teachers were skeptical, suspicious or downright bewildered about the abrupt about-face regarding convening groups of five or more people while the coronavirus vaccine is still slow to roll out.
“All of the members of the union were su