Integration and the disappearance of Black teachers Wednesday, April 28, 2021 In an undated photograph developed from film brought to George Dexter Sherrill’s Waynesville studio for developing in the early 1900s, an African American man leans on a school bus. Hunter Library, Western Carolina University photo
For Lin Forney, the end of fourth grade was the end of an era.
The year was 1963, and the world was changing. Nine years earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision struck down the “separate-but-equal” precedent that allowed racial segregation in schools, and the Civil Rights movement was spurring change or at least talk of it in communities across the South. Now, that change was coming home to Haywood County. The schools were desegregating.
AZTEC More than half of San Juan Mine s approximately 200 workers will lose their jobs this summer. These layoffs come as funding from the Energy Transition Act remains in litigation and hopes are beginning to fade for some about a carbon capture project at the generating station it serves.
The San Juan Mine has one customer, the San Juan Generating Station. The power plant s majority owner Public Service Company of New Mexico intends to switch to using stockpiled coal this summer as it prepares to end power production at the facility in 2022.
Meanwhile, the City of Farmington and its partner Enchant Energy are pushing forward with an effort to take ownership of the full power plant and retrofit it with carbon capture technology. This would allow it to remain operating into the future, thus saving jobs at both the mine and the power plant.
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PED: 42 New Mexico Schools On COVID-19 Watchlist
PED News:
SANTA FE – Forty-two New Mexico public school buildings appeared on the COVID-19 Watchlist in the week ending Friday, Dec. 11, signifying they had at least two Rapid Responses within a 14-day period.
Schools On Watchlist:
Zia Elementary
LOVINGTON
SHIPROCK
During that same period, no schools were placed on the Closure List.
The Watchlist, maintained by the New Mexico Environment Department, includes schools and businesses with two or more Rapid Responses within 14 days. Those with four or more Rapid Responses in 14 days are placed on the Closure List and required to close and, where appropriate, return instruction to remote-only learning.