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Santa Fe Music Teacher Questions PED Calendar Change Proposal

November 30, 2023
Desks and chairs in a classroom.

12.1.23 – The state Public Education Department wants to expand school calendars, increasing the number of instructional days required for students statewide. This proposal comes months after the Legislature passed House Bill 130, which increased education funding, in large part to accommodate an increase in required instruction hours — bumping those up to 1,140. Those…

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Reforming NM Education

March 3, 2023
Rows of chairs in a classroom.

03.03.23– Gene and the panel explore some of the developments in New Mexico’s efforts to pull itself up from dead last in literacy including a new training program for elementary school teachers.  Host: Gene Grant  The Line Opinion Panel: Martha Burk, political psychologist and author Edmund Perea, attorney and public safety analyst Tom Garrity, founder & president, the Garrity…

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