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The Albuquerque Mayoral Forum, presented by the New Mexico Black Voters Collaborative

October 6, 2021
A silhouette of a person placing their voting ballot into a box

This week on New Mexico in Focus, as voting begins in local elections across the state, NMiF teams with the New Mexico Black Voters Collaborative to present a mayoral forum in the state’s largest city. Incumbent Mayor Tim Keller has three challengers, including one write-in candidate. The other two challengers – Eddy Aragon and Manny Gonzales – joined Keller…

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No Testing Results for NM Students, Dede Feldman Pens a Memoir on a Life in Politics, and New Climate Change Research in NM

October 4, 2021
Dede Feldman

Standardized testing was so sparse in New Mexico in 2020 and 2021 that the state isn’t bothering to release last year’s testing results. COVID protocols and remote learning caused the lack of usual standardized measurements, but it’s easy to see that students have fallen way behind in reaching grade-level markers in math and reading. New Mexico’s public education budget is $3 billion. How…

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