Education

Editor’s note: With school board elections less than two weeks away it’s time to start brushing up on where candidates stand on the issues. The Optic submitted questionnaires to all school board candidates in San Miguel County. What follows are the responses from candidates running for a seat on the Las Vegas City Schools Board of Education. We’ll run responses from the other candidates in future editions of the Optic. Election Day is Feb. 5.

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Ernesto J. Salazar
Age: 42; born in Las Vegas, NM

By Dave Collins
The Associated Press

MONROE, Conn. — The youngsters who survived the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary returned to class Thursday for the first time since the shooting rampage, settling in at their old, familiar desks but in a different school in a different town.

Classes resumed for the first time since last month’s shooting in Newtown, where a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators.

By Margaret McKinney
Highlands University

Four New Mexico Highlands University business students received scholarships from Bloomberg Businessweek for writing outstanding business case studies.

The scholarships were funded through Bloomberg Businessweek’s B-School Connection Program, with a match this fall semester from the Highlands University Foundation.  

Melissa Frank, a business management major from the university’s Farmington Center, won the $600 gold scholarship.