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Even by the most optimistic standards, the logistics of learning in 2020 have been difficult, if not close to impossible, for a significant number of New Mexico students.
Technological challenges have combined with trauma caused by COVID-19’s deadly rampage through hard-hit populations, especially the state’s Indigenous communities, to disrupt classrooms and educational plans.
More than 32,000 students or one of every 10 enrolled in public education statewide have been referred to a state-sponsored coaching program, many for being disengaged, regularly missing classes, or in danger of failing one or more classes. Less than a quarter are participating, however. And more than half of those, or 5,173 students, are in need of the most help, according to the state education officials, meaning they endure significant on-going barriers and are receiving regular interventions, sometimes daily.
New Mexico PED And Partners Cut List Of Unaccounted-For Students Through Data Matching, Other Efforts
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Ben Ippel, a fourth grade teacher at Governor Bent Elementary School, teaches students remotely in his empty classroom. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story included incorrect information provided by the state Public Education Department. Small group in-person learning during a two-week pause in January will be limited to students who have disabilities.
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New Mexico school districts have made significant strides in locating the state’s thousands of unaccounted for students, although more than half remain off the grid.
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Officials with the state Public Education Department announced Friday that nearly 5,000 students had been located, after announcing in November that districts were unable to account for the whereabouts of more than 12,000.
Data Cross-Checks ‘Find’ 4,926 New Mexico Students
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SANTA FE The Public Education Department announced Friday it has accounted for almost 5,000 of the 12,000-plus New Mexico students who were enrolled in public schools last spring but not this fall and were feared to be outside the educational system.
Most of the 4,926 students are being home-schooled, are enrolled in private or Bureau of Indian Education schools, or have moved out of state. Others switched school districts or withdrew for reasons like pregnancy or to pursue a GED, Deputy Secretaries Katarina Sandoval and Gwen Perea Warniment told the Legislative Education Study Committee.
LOS LUNASâThe search is over.Â
After looking for a new superintendent, the Los Lunas Board of Education finally made its choice on Monday.
Arsenio Romero, Ph.D. currently the superintendent and chief executive officer of Deming Public Schools, has been named the new superintendent after a unanimous vote by the Los Lunas Schools Board of Education.
Romero will start his new job on Jan. 18, and his contract with Los Lunas Schools is for two years, and with a starting salary of $160,000.
âI am very excited about it. This is something that is . an amazing thing because Iâm able to come back to the community I grew up in,â Romero said. âIâm very much looking forward to the great people in the community and the great school system. And Iâm lucky to be able to be a part of it now.â
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