Posts by Myah Wilmarth
Reckoning with the Past: Native Boarding Schools
July 30, 2021 – This week on New Mexico in Focus, extended coverage of the federal government’s effort to document the truth about Native boarding schools. Interior secretary and former New Mexico congresswoman Deb Haaland announced the investigation this summer, on the heels of gruesome discoveries of mass graves at Canadian boarding school sites. Correspondent Antonia…
Read MoreNew CDC, PED, School District Mask Policies
July 30, 2021 – The Line opinion panel talks about the return of masks – even for vaccinated people – in some indoor environments, as well as how schools will handle the CDC’s new recommendation. New Mexico’s Public Education Department has mandated masks in elementary schools. School districts, however, can make their own – and…
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