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Public Education Department visits Las Cruces, announces $200,000 for Valley View Elementary Miranda Cyr, Las Cruces Sun-News LAS CRUCES - New Mexico Public Education Department officials came to Las Cruces Public Schools to check in on the district Friday and see how they've handled the return to in-person instruction. © Nathan J Fish/Sun-News Las Cruces Public Schools interim superintendent Ralph Ramos is pictured at Valley View Elementary on Friday, April 9, 2021. The officials visited Valley View Elementary, which has a little over 70 percent of its students face-to-fac...

New Mexico public education leaders praise transition to in-person learning in Las Cruces LAS CRUCES, New Mexico -- In their visit to a Las Cruces elementary school on Friday, leaders with the New Mexico Public Education Department praised the transition to in-person instruction at Las Cruces Public Schools. Deputy secretaries Tim Hand and Gwendolyn Perea Warniment visited Valley View Elementary, along with State Sen. William Soules, a democrat who represents Doña Ana County. "The kids are the barometer," said Timothy Hand, deputy secretary of the Public Education Department. "When you're t...

Cancer Tricks Immune Cells, Immunotherapy Can Take Advantage A paper published today in Nature shows how chemicals in the areas surrounding tumors—known as the tumor microenvironment—subvert the immune system and enable cancer to evade attack. These findings suggest that an existing drug could boost cancer immunotherapy. The study was conducted by a team of scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, led by Pitt associate professor of immunology Greg Delgoffe. By disrupting the effect of the tumor microenvironment on immune cells in mi...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Cancer evades the immune system by "feeding " the T cells that protect the tumor and "starving " the T cells that would attack. view more  Credit: UPMC, created with BioRender.com PITTSBURGH, Feb. 15, 2021 - A paper published today in Nature shows how chemicals in the areas surrounding tumors--known as the tumor microenvironment--subvert the immune system and enable cancer to evade attack. These findings suggest that an existing drug could boost cancer immunotherapy. The study was conducted by a team of scientists at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and the University of...

PED Presents Near-Flat $3.3B Budget Request For Schools PED News: SANTA FE — The New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) is requesting a near-flat $3.3 billion budget for public schools in the next fiscal year while rolling out plans to increase the share going to schools with the greatest need. “Equity is at the heart of this budget request,” Public Education Secretary Ryan Stewart said. “We’re getting additional money to the kids who need it most while giving districts the flexibility to determine at a local level what their students need.” Stewart presented the Public Scho...