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The Line Top 10 Countdown: #7 Santa Fe Soda Tax & Healthy Workforce Defeats

Top stories of 2017 7.

December 22, 2017 – Number seven on our list of the top ten stories of 2017 is two high-profile measures that failed at the polls this year – Santa Fe’s “Soda Tax” and Albuquerque’s Healthy Workforce Initiative. The tax on sugary beverages would have provided money for early childhood education in Santa Fe and the…

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Education Desk – Bilingual Education

NMiF: bilingual education

September 22, 2017 – About 15 percent of New Mexico’s student population participates in some form of bilingual education. Producer Sarah Gustavus sits down with educators to talk about what bilingual education looks like in different schools, in our latest Education Desk report.  They also examine how proposed changes to bilingual education in our state…

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