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Education

  • Gov. Martinez signs education bills

    By Susan Montoya Bryan
    The Associated Press

    ALBUQUERQUE — Gov. Susana Martinez on Wednesday signed into law legislation aimed at increasing transparency among New Mexico’s public school districts and strengthening oversight of charter schools.

    Among the four bills signed by the governor during a ceremony at Albuquerque’s Sandia High School was a measure that requires financial information about school districts and charter schools to be posted on a government website known as the “sunshine portal.”

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  • Students, employees attending competition

    Taking its largest group ever, 28 Luna Community College students and staff members will be taking their talents to the state Skills USA competition from Thursday, April 7 to Saturday, April 9 in Albuquerque.

    “I predict that Luna Community College will have at least three state champions,” said LCC collision repair instructor Anthony Baca. “We have a good caliber of students.”
    Earlier this year, Baca was elected to the board of directors for SkillsUSA.

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  • HU soprano sings in opera

    By Margaret McKinney
    New Mexico Highlands

    New Mexico Highlands University soprano Nicole Robinson was part of a cast that received standing ovations in February for Santa Fe and Albuquerque performances of the 1964 Benjamin Britten opera Curlew River.

    Britten called Curlew River a “parable for church performance,” and both productions were staged in First Presbyterian Churches.

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  • LCC announces VP’s honor roll

    Submitted to the Optic

    Luna Community College has  announced its Fall 2010 Vice President’s Honor Roll.  
    Inclusion on the Vice President’s Honor Roll requires students to successfully complete, without incomplete grades included, a minimum of 12 graded credit hours with at least a 3.66 GPA.  Graded credit hours do not include S/U graded courses, audits or credit by exam.  

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  • Above and Beyond: Building Luna's auto collision program

    Anthony Baca takes great satisfaction and pride in teaching his students how to turn beat-up old clunkers into prized cars — some good enough to enter classic car shows locally and statewide.

    Since Baca started the first auto collision repair class at Luna Community College in 2000, his students have won five state championships and four students have competed at the national level.

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  • Input sought on NMHU report

    New Mexico Highlands University is seeking public comment on its accreditation self-study report, which is part of the university’s comprehensive evaluation by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

    Highlands University was first accredited by the North Central Association in 1926 and has retained its accreditation since then.

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  • Luna offers acting classes

    “Every man and woman is star,”—Aleister Crowley

     

    An intense eight week acting course is being offered this fall, from Oct. 13 through Dec. 4. The course will provide basic training in the skills necessary to act in theatre and in film. The course will be performance based and will include training in voice, movement, characterization, and script analysis.

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  • The Gorras Blancas ride at Gallinas

    It was on the second night when they came. Three riders, with white sacks over their heads to protect their identity, rode down the steep trail from the high country. The meeting was secret and held in the mountains adjacent to the village of Gallinas at the base of the ridges along the Rio Gallinas.

    It was 1890 and Las Gorras Blancas, the White Caps, were there to convince others of the need to resist the break up of the Commons, land that had been guaranteed under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago in 1848. Membership in the highly secretive movement grew to 1,500.

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