Education

Lawmakers introduce hundreds of bills each session that propose to fund programs for children and families. They aim to improve the education system, prevent and punish child abuse, alter the tax code and extend medical benefits to impoverished families.

New Mexico is now officially ranked as the worst state in the country to be a child, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Some see opportunity in being 50th. Like an addict who has reached rock bottom, there is no place to go but up.

After convening for more than two hours Tuesday, the Las Vegas City Schools Board of Education took no action on Superintendent Kelt Cooper, who is currently on paid administrative leave. 

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Board Chair Dennis Romero told the Optic he could not speak on the ongoing personnel matters because they are confidential.

The Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival is traveling to New Mexico for the first time to perform Sam Shepard’s “Fool for Love,” a 55-minute play. Las Vegas was the site of the film adaptation of this stage masterpiece.

At Thursday’s Las Vegas City Schools Board of Education meeting, a representative of National Education Association N.M., representing a group of 18 staffers, proposed a plan for collective bargaining, which could lead to a standoff between the staff and the school board in coming months.