Posts by Ashley Rammelsberg
Jimmy Santiago Baca: Words Have the Power to Change the World
April 27, 2018 – Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in New Mexico of Apache and Chicano descent in 1952. Abandoned as child, he was in an orphanage and was in and out of trouble as a teenager before eventually being incarcerated in the brutal and violent Arizona State Prison for five years. That was where…
Read MoreThe Line: Dept. of Education Retention Proposal Plans
April 27, 2018 – The struggle over how to tackle New Mexico’s ongoing reading proficiency problem flared up again this week, at a meeting of the Legislative Education Study Committee. Members of the committee are upset the Department of Education and Secretary-designate Christopher Ruszkowski are proposing rule changes that would allow schools to hold struggling…
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