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The next two weeks will be critical in determining whether some schools in the state can keep offering in-person classes, Secretary of Education Ryan Stewart said during a virtual news conference on Monday. “Let’s be very clear that if we don’t start to trend in the right direction, if we don’t start to get these case numbers down, get our positivity rates down, then we will be in a situation where we’ll have no choice but to move all schools into remote learning,” Stewart said. While the state on Monday began a two-week lo...
As debates over school reopenings during the COVID-19 pandemic rage on, superintendents in New Mexico are calling local requirements a “moving target.” Grievances were aired to the Legislative Education Study Committee the day after the state Public Education Department publicly released more coronavirus guidance for elementary schools. For now, public schools in counties that meet virus condition requirements, among other criteria, can have elementary students on campus for a hybrid of in-person and online learning. The dist...
New Mexico’s new teacher evaluation system will get a trial run this school year. State Public Education Deputy Secretary Gwen Perea Warniment told lawmakers during a Legislative Education Study Committee hearing late last month that Elevate New Mexico, the new system created under the Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham administration, will be softly rolled out this year. The department will garner feedback but educators and districts won’t get an official evaluation report with a ranking from the PED. Formal rollout is slated for...
SANTA FE — Coronavirus cases have surfaced at dozens of school and education sites in New Mexico this month, even without the return of traditional in-person classes, according to state records. They’ve popped up across the state, from Albuquerque to Artesia, triggering the temporary closure of school buildings, contact tracing and deep cleaning. Records published by the state Environment Department — which helps oversee rapid-response testing of employers — show schools have reported about 50 positive tests among employees a...
