📚 Big wins for New Mexico kids! This week, I signed four education bills into law, targeting literacy, math, and special education. The new laws require structured literacy instruction in K–3, early math screening, higher math standards for teacher licenses, and facebook.com
New Mexico has landed near the bottom of national education rankings for far too long. That is unacceptable — and we are changing it. This session, working with lawmakers, we delivered major education reforms that strengthen special education statewide a facebook.com
Upon discovering that his son was musically inclined, Valentin Anaya enrolled the high school student in a music class at Socorro High, only to find that the boy had been marked absent nearly 40 times halfway through the first semester. Valentin “Gogo” Anaya, a junior, is autistic and his father said he did not respond […]
Following reports that some New Mexico charter schools were demanding too much personal information on their lottery applications, the Public Education Commission unanimously decided on Friday to update the lottery guidelines for schools under their jurisdiction. Now, no state-regulated charter school is allowed to circulate registration forms or require applicants to provide their home address […]
