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  • 27 May 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (5/28/2013)
  • • ABQ/ Truman Middle School Dual Language Program: Bilingual & Biliterate Students
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ High School Students Taking More Math and Science Courses
    • New York NY/ EDITORIAL: Caution and the Common Core
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Technical Literacy, Can Everyone Learn to Code?
  • 25-27 May 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (5/27/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Maxwell/ Lynn Romero: One of Village's Own Named School Superintendent
    • Shiprock/ More Administration Placed on Leave within Central Consolidated School District
    • Santa Fe/ El Dorado Community School: Residents & Students Enjoy School's Garden Bounty
    • Taos/ Planting begins at Enos García Elementary School Campus' Parr Field
    • Rio Rancho/ Dorothy Satriana: Retiring Science Teacher Part of LMS from Start
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Piñon AZ/ In Native Schools, Hope and Fears about New Nationwide Standards
    • Washington DC/ Education Department Launches Competition for Kindergarten Entry Assessments
    • Washington DC/ Teaching Students Better Online Research Skills [NM Quotes]
  • 24 May 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (5/24/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Farmington/ Tibbetts Middle School Staff & Students Prepare for Move to New Campus
    • Los Alamos/ Wind Tears Off Roof of Barranca Mesa Elementary School
    • Santa Fe/ School Board Approves Operating Budget Despite Surprise Dissent
    • Tularosa/ PED Error Shortchanges Tularosa School District
    • Raton/ Superintendent Dave Willden Submits Resignation
    • ABQ/ OBITUARY: Beloved Zia Elementary Teacher Jeannie A. Fenchel
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ Test Maker CTB/McGraw-Hill Pays Students to Take Exam
    • Washington DC/ Institute of Medicine Report: Nation's Kids Need to Get More Physical
    • New York NY/ COLUMN: A By-the-eBook Education, for $5 a Month
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Make Teaching a Desirable Career
  • 23 May 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (5/23/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ State Land Office Earns $45.4 Million in April
    • Santa Fe/ State Funding Error Leaves Schools Overpaid, Underpaid
    • ABQ/ APS Board Unanimously Approves Budget with 1 Percent Raise
    • Cloudcroft / School Boards Approves Budget Without Cutting Personnel
    • Socorro/ Distribution of Bond to Cottonwood Valley Charter School Decided
    • Farmington/ Financial Aid and College Entrance [FACE]: Program Increases Scholarship Dollars
    • Estancia/ Mandatory School Surveys Often Ignored, Schools' Grades May Be Affected
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ OPINION: The Promise of iPads for Special Education
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: AERA to Add Open-Access Research Journal, Fee Paid by Authors
    • Washington DC/ ESSAY: Do Charter Schools Work?
  • 22 May 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (5/22/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Taos/ Adult Learning Center Warns of GED Changes in 2014
    • Santa Fe/NM Students Could Win Prizes for Reading Books
    • ABQ/ Residents Unhappy with APS Plan for Jefferson Middle School Loop Road
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ STEM Schools Put High Priority on Digital Skills
    • Washington DC/ Student Data Too Often a Tangled Web for Schools
    • Washington DC/ Free Online Education: edX Adds 15 Schools, Several from Asia
    • Denver CO/ Governor Hickenlooper Signs School-Funding Overhaul
  • 21 May 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (5/21/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Alamogordo/ Desert Star: New Elementary School Nears End of Design-Phase
    • ABQ/ APS to Manage 21st Century Public Academy Charter School's Budget
    • Santa Fe/ Judge to Rule in Favor of PED on Textbooks for Private Schools
    • Santa Fe/ Ernesto Cruz and Chris Eadie: Teachers Who Inspire at Santa Fe High School
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Sequestration Forces Indian Land, Military Base Schools to Make Drastic Cuts
    • Washington DC/ Windows XP Deadline Puts Pressure on Schools
    • Washington DC/ Education Schools Lag Behind Digital Content Trends
    • New York NY/ TeachLivE: Aspiring Teachers Learn from Avatars
    • Washington DC/ 2013 National Language Teacher of the Year & Foreign Language Partnerships
    • Washington DC/ 16 DC Public School Buildings Released for Reuse by Charter Schools
    • New York NY/ Should We Let Wunderkinds Drop Out of High School?
    • New York NY/ Before Tumblr, Founder David Karp Made Mom Proud. He Quit School.
  • 18-20 May 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (5/20/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Estancia/ Board of Education OKs Sale of $3 Million in Bonds
    • Bernalillo/ Preschool Program to Expand, Provide Transportation
    • Santa Fe/ Parent Academy: Parents Sharpen Educational Skills at SFPS Pilot Academy
    • Rio Rancho/ Budget Cuts Eliminate Some RRPS Positions
    • ABQ/ Metro Area 8th in Nation for Suburban Poverty
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: IAIA Celebrates 50th year in DC Style
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Like a Gladiator, Teachers Must Learn to Win Over Students
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Digital Trends Shifting the Role of Teachers
    • Washington DC/ Common Science Standards Face Capacity Issues
    • Arlington VA/ Children's Spatial Skills Seen as Key to Math Learning
    • New York NY/ Schools Add to Test Load, Just to Assess the Questions
    • Washington DC/ Home Visiting Programs are Preschool in Its Earliest Form
  • 17 May 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (5/17/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Farmington/ Greer Stafford/SJCF Named Architect for New Farmington High School
    • Española/ School District Changes Tech Funding Formula
    • Española/ School District Debates Cutting 80 Jobs
    • Deming/ Police, Schools Work Toward Emergency Preparedness
    • Santa Fe/ 'Literacy Hero' Kathleen Nakamura Honored as Teacher Who Inspires
    • Grants/ GHS Summer Math Courses Add AP Trigonometry
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ E-Rate Needs Overhaul for Digital Era, Experts Argue
    • Northridge CA/ California Struggles to Assess Teacher Training Programs
    • Washington DC/ Microsoft Donates $1 Million to Help Expand 'Blended Learning'
  • 16 May 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (5/16/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Rio Rancho/ School Board Disagrees Over Finances
    • Santa Fe/ Proposed SFPS Sale of Vacant Manderfield School Building
    • Santa Fe/ Carlos Gilbert Elementary School Teacher Martha Armijo Retires After 38 Years
    • Santa Fe/ Sweeney Elementary School Teacher Sandy Sena Honored as Teacher Who Inspires
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • London UK/ What's the Best Way to Teach Languages?
    • Loveland CO/ Education Reform's Next Big Thing: Common Core Standards Ramp Up
    • Washington DC/ Common Core Supporters Firing Back
    • Edinburgh SCOTLAND/ Elementary Math, Reading Skills at Age 7 Linked to Financial Success at Midlife
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Why High Schools Should Treat Computer Programming Like Algebra
  • 15 May 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (5/15/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Peñasco/ After February Defeat, School Tax Goes to Voters June 18
    • Santa Fe/ 11 Districts, 3 Charters Receive Reading Grants
    • Silver City/ Cobre School Board Seeks Public Input on Hiring New Superintendent
    • Santa Fe/ César Chávez Community School's Teresita Hamman Named as Teacher Who Inspires
    • Shiprock/ Central Consolidated School District Rescinds Layoffs for 39 Employees
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Funding in Classroom, Not Courtroom
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Nearly 2 of 5 Children Exposed to Violence, Crime and Abuse
    • Washington DC/ Dual Language in Early Education Best for Youngest ELLs
    • Washington DC/ Unaccompanied Minors Crossing Border Has Tripled
    • Sacramento CA/ California Boosts School Funds, Aims to Help Poorest Districts
    • New York NY/ OPINION: How KIPP Uses Technology
  • 14 May 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (5/14/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Proposed Budget Offers Teachers 1% Raise
    • Rio Rancho/ RRPS: Reductions in Positions Needed to Balance Budget
    • Santa Fe/ Ramirez Thomas Elementary: Rising Even as Turnaround Funds End
    • Tularosa/ School Employees Set to See Pay Raise
    • Laguna-Acoma/ L-AHS Student Survey "Encouraging"
    • Silver City/ Southern NM Teen Birth Rates Fall as School Districts Address Issue
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: APS Aims for 75% Graduation Rate
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ New Chapter on Children's Book Program
    • New York NY/ COLUMN: Poverty as a Childhood Disease
  • 11-13 May 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (5/13/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ PED Seeks Bids for Online Evaluation System
    • Rio Rancho/ RRPS, APS Allies in Teacher-Evaluation Negotiations
    • Raton/ NM's Top Education Official Hanna Skandera Visits Local Schools
    • ABQ/ Dual-Credit High School Set to Open on CNMCC Campus
    • ABQ/ Sen. Udall's Proposed Plan Will Aid Student Parents
    • Española / Velarde Elementary School's Proposed Closure Infuriates Parents
    • Grants/ Survey: Which Grades Will New School Ultimately Accommodate?
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Nava Elementary School Students Push 'Greens' Initiative
    • Alamogordo/ OPINION: Schools, Parents Must Work Together
    • Rio Rancho/ INTERVIEW with RRPS Superintendent V. Sue Cleveland
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Proper Role of Education-Technology: Rising Issue in Pre-K
    • Washington DC/ Diversity at Issue as States Weigh Teacher Entry
    • Carbondale/ Valley Settlement Project Helps Immigrants by Connecting Parents to Schools
    • Washington DC/ Games Win Big in Education Grants Competition
    • New York NY/ After More Test Errors, City Considers Ending Pearson Contract
  • 10 May 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (5/10/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Shiprock/ Career Prep High School Will Not Close
    • ABQ/ RRPS & APS Boards Discuss Teacher Evaluations Jointly
    • Taos/ County Charters Schools Emphasize School Choice During National Charter Schools Week
    • Bernalillo/ More on myinstead.com: Gov. Discourages DWI, Underage Drinking
    • ABQ/ UNM-CEPR Presents to New Mexico PTA: Truancy in NM Schools
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Manor TX/ Obama Lauds 'New Tech' High School: Model for Future?
    • New York NY/ As Latinos Make Gains in Education, Gaps Remain
    • Washington DC/ Partnership Aims for Hybrid Traditional-Charter School
    • Sarisske Michalany SLOVAKIA/ In Efforts to Integrate Roma, Slovakia Recalls US Struggles
    • New York NY/ COLUMN: Started at the Bottom
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Migrant Life and the Inspiration of a Mother
    • New York NY/ OPINION: The Accuracy of Federal Education Data
  • 9 May 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (5/9/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Dual Final High School Exams Questioned
    • Shiprock/ Career Prep High School Students Plea to Save School
    • Socorro/ Parkview Elementary School: Summer School Days
    • Santa Fe/ New State Website MYINSTEAD Addresses Epidemic of Underage Drinking
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • San Francisco CA/ Common Standards Set for Federal Education Research
    • New York NY/ In Switch, City Says It Can Speed Up Replacing School Lights Containing PCBs
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Where Private School is Not a Privilege
  • 8 May 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (5/8/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Clovis/ $20 Million School Bond Passes with Ease
    • Aztec/ Voters Pass Continuation of 2-Mill Levy Tax for Aztec Schools
    • ABQ/ APS Looks to Rejuvenate Van Buren Middle School
    • Shiprock/ Central Consolidated School District Proposes Closing Career Prep High School
    • Santa Fe/ School District Plans New Charter School Compacts
    • Alamogordo/ Public Schools Seek Community Input on District Budget
    • Grants/ Doctoral Student Vanessa Fonseca Engages Chicano Communities
    • ABQ/ UNM Hits 'Reset' on Teacher Education
    • Las Cruces/ OPINION: School Nurses Provide Much More Than Bandages
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Rifts Deepen Over Direction of Education Policy in US
    • New York NY/ NCEE Report: Rethink Readiness
    • Denver CO/ Colorado 3rd-Grade Reading Scores Remain Stagnant
    • Miami FL/ COLUMN: Exchange Students Key to Better US-Mexico Relations
  • 7 May 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (5/7/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ TV Investigation Reveals NM Charter School Rent Problems
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: 11 Months to Unlock Education Policy
    • Deming/ OBITUARY: Former New Mexico Legislator G.X. McSherry
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ NCLB Waivers: Rewarding Improvement
    • New York NY/ National Council on Teacher Quality Report: Teacher Pay Hurt by Recession [ABQ mention]
    • Dallas TX/ Hispanics Now Largest Ethnic Group in Texas' Public Schools
    • New York NY/ ACT to Move Toward Computer-Based Testing
    • Washington DC/ Citizen Science: Students Conduct Fieldwork for Scientists' Research
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Technology for Education vs. Technology for Learners
  • 4-6 May 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (5/6/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Clovis/ $20 Million School Bond Election Tuesday
    • Aztec/ Continuation of Aztec Schools' 2 Mill Levy Tax Up for Vote
    • Socorro/ District Schools in Poor Repair
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Considers Suit vs. State Over Funding
    • Tucumcari/ Community Effort Aims to Boost School Spirit
    • Santa Fe/ Piñon Elementary School Nurse Shona Stack: SFPS School Nurse of the Year
    • Deming/ NM International Reading Association: Literacy Group Earns National Award
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Turquoise Trial Principal Sandy Davis Stepping Down
    • ABQ/ OPINION: School Nurses Vital Providers of Children's Health Care
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Arne Duncan's AERA Speech: Standardized Test Criticism 'Is Merited'
    • Washington DC/ States' Online Testing Problems Raise Common-Core Concerns
    • New York NY/ The Apprentices of a Digital Age
    • Washington DC/ Multi-tasking: You'll Never Learn!
    • New York NY/ TED Teams Up With PBS on Ideas for Education
  • 3 May 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (5/3/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Shiprock/ Central Consolidated School District Faces $4 Million Budget Shortfall, Layoffs
    • Ojo Caliente/ 3 School District Officials Submit Resignations
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ P-TECH: NYC-IBM Partnership Focuses on Students' Technology Skills
    • Washington DC/ Smartphones: Standard for Majority of Students by High School
    • Washington DC/ Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Opens to Public
    • Washington DC/ Meeting the Challenges of Student Writing in the Digital Age
    • Hillsville VA/ Virginia's First Statewide Virtual School May Be Closing
    • Washington DC/ Coursera Plans New Continuing Education MOOC Options for Teachers
    • Austin TX/ Figuring Out How to Give Teachers Useful Feedback
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Grantmakers for Education Recommend More Philanthrophic Investment for ELLs
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Executive Education Tiptoes Online
  • 2 May 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (5/2/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Aztec/ Schools to Hold Town Hall Meeting on Upcoming Mill Levy Election
    • Rio Rancho/ Schools Offer Online Info, Food Help
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Schools Evaluate Whether to Privatize Support Services
    • Washington DC/ Rural Teachers Turn to Tech to Support Teaching and Learning
    • Los Angeles CA/ Walton Foundation Gives $8 Million to Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Why Collaboration is Vital to Creating Effective Schools
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Overcoming Four Barriers to Evidence-Based Education
  • 1 May 2013: NEWS DIGEST   (5/1/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Clovis/ New Middle School Cost Matches Projection
    • Deming/ School District Master Plan Encompasses All Facilities
    • Santa Fe/ Testing Out: How Privatized GED Could Hurt New Mexico's Neediest Students
    • Farmington/ Home-Schooling Parents Upset Over Library Policy
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Put Changes in APS Policy on Public Table
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: A Premature Promotion
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Durham NC/ Duke University Withdraws From Semester Online Course Group
    • Washington DC/ One-Third of Developed World's High-Performing Students are American
    • New York NY/ Coursera Aims to Help Teach K-12 Teachers to Teach
    • New York NY/ NewSchools Venture Fund Attracts More Capital
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Extreme Common Core Rhetoric Clouds Serious Debate
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Can Technology Teach Grit?
    • New York NY/ OPINION: E-Books and Democracy
  • 30 April 2013: PSFA News Digest  (4/30/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Farmington/ Principal: Newcomb High School Needs More Security
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Pre-K Programs Take Biggest State Funding Hit Ever
    • Washington DC/ States Seek High School Pathways Weaving Academic, Career Options
    • San Jose CA/ Colleges Adapt Online Courses to Ease Remedial Work Burden
    • Washington DC/ Turmoil Swirling Around Common Core Education Standards
  • 27-29 April 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (4/29/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ APS Superintendent Brooks Seeks Ability to Transfer Teachers
    • ABQ/ Albuquerque Public Schools Release Details on Proposed Educator Reviews
    • Farmington/ Area Teachers Share Experiences in UNM Graduate Teacher Education Program
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Tricky Process of School Registration
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Citizen Schools Program Offers Glimpse of Teachers' Joys, Challenges
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Charter Money Flow Clarified
    • ABQ / OPINION: What to Call Hanna?
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Schools Vet Education Companies' Research With Critical Eye
    • Washington DC/ Preschool Funding Reached 'State Of Emergency' In 2012: NIEER Report
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Toddlers and Touchscreens-The Case in Favor
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Bill Gates' School Panopticon
    • New York NY/ OPINION: No Rich Child Left Behind
  • 26 April 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (4/26/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Deming/ Deming High School Targeted for Renovation
    • Santa Fe/ State Boosts Preschool Funding by $4.5 Million
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS to Double Pre-K Program with Boost in State Funding
    • Santa Fe/ NM School Executive Hanna Skandera Elevates Title
    • Santa Fe/ School Gardens Help Connect Students with Local Food Sources
    • Santa Fe/ 'Forgotten' Latino Scholar George I. Sanchez to Receive NM Education Honor
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Austin TX/ State Aims to Serve Free Breakfasts to All Students in Poor Areas
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Cities Should Embrace After-School Learning
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Playing for All Kinds of Possibilities
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: The Coming Revolution in Public Education
  • 25 April 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (4/25/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: SFPS Parent Academy Helps Parents Stay Connected
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Bilingual Students Deserve Special Seal
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Governor Martinez's Ideas Damage Education
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Aurora CO/ Aurora Public Schools Saves $5 Million on School Bond Projects
    • Los Angeles CA/ ACLU Lawsuit: California Neglecting 20, 000+ ELLs
    • Washington DC/ 30 Years After "A Nation at Risk" Report, Schools Remain at Risk
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Why I Support Common Core Reading Standards
  • 24 April 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (4/24/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Alamogordo/ Alamogordo Public Schools Submit Teacher-Evaluation Proposal
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ US News & World Report Ranking of Best High Schools, 2 Gold Medals in NM
    • San Antonio TX/ Pre-K SA Education Center Sets Sights on Preschool Leadership
    • New York NY/ Minerva Project Aims to be Online Ivy League University
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Why Are 2 of US News's Top 5 'Best High Schools' AZ Charter Schools?
  • 23 April 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (4/23/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ NM Education Secretary-Designate Hanna Skandera to Head 'Chiefs for Change'
    • Grants/ Grants/Cibola County School Officials Talk Attendance Boundaries Again
    • ABQ/ After-School Activity Demonstrates Positive Outcomes
    • ABQ/ Los Alamos Students Honored at White House Science Fair
    • Deming/ Friend of Education: School District Pays Tribute to Betty Gilmore
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Tennessee's Not-So-Radical School Reforms
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Atlanta GA/ Schools Work to Help Kids Left Behind
    • Washington DC/ Companies, Policymakers Look for Common Ground
    • Washington DC/ A Presidential Recognition for Young Scientists
  • 20-22 April 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (4/22/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ PERA Ignores Errors that Short-Change Retirees
    • Rio Rancho/ RRPS Battle of the Budget
    • Rio Rancho/ Yellow Buses in the Red: Unrelieved Budget Deficits
    • Moriarty/ Schools Face $2.1 Million Budget Shortfall
    • Kirtland/ Central Consolidated School District Plans for Improving Facilities: Mixed Reactions
    • ABQ/ Manos Program Turns School into Science Workshop
    • Santa Fe/ Testing Likened to Prison Lockdown
    • Rio Rancho/ When Home is School ... and School is Home
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: School Districts Should Welcome At-Risk Data
    • Rio Rancho/ EDITORIAL: PED Needs to Fund Mandated Programs
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Austin TX/ Seeking to Pare Standardized Tests, Legislators Take Aim at Testing Firm
    • New Orleans LA/ TFA Alumni Aid New Teachers in New Orleans
    • New York NY/ EDITORIAL: Moving Ahead With Common Core
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Universal Preschool Sure Path to Middle Class
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Exams Aren't the Enemy
    • New York NY/ OPINION: The First Race to the Top
  • 19 April 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST 3-6-13  (4/19/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Alamogordo/ Alamogordo Public Schools Seek Funds for Holloman Elementary School
    • Santa Fe/ Governor's Plan for Dropout Prevention Unveiled
    • ABQ/ APS Board OKs 2 Magnet Schools
    • ABQ/ APS Considers Closing Schools, Approves 2 New Magnet Schools
    • Rio Rancho/ Schools Looking at Spending Cuts
    • Sandia Park/ East Mountain High School Debate Team Finishes 3rd-Best in World
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Supporting Schools to Improve the Educational Outcomes of Emergent Bilinguals
    • Washington DC/ Research Suggests 'Real World' Social Media Helps Students Bond
    • Las Vegas NV/ To Save Endangered Languages, Tribes Turn to Tech
    • New York NY/ OPINION: A Tale of 2 Summits: Sandbox vs. Education Innovation
  • 18 April 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (4/18/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ APS Projects $3 Million Budget Surplus, Not Enough to Fix Overcrowded Classroom
    • Rio Rancho/ Teacher and Principal Evaluations: Schools Struggle with Another Unfunded Mandate
    • Portales/ Educators Voice Concerns at PED Forum
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Inside the Culture of Cheating
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ High School Redesign Gets Presidential Lift
    • Washington DC/ Data Security: Cloudy With a Chance of Data
    • Washington DC/ School Board Transparency a Challenge in Digital Age [NM content]
    • Denver CO/ Jeffco Merging School IT Programs into inBloom, Parents Question Security
    • Washington DC/ Study: Charters Receive Less Funding Than Traditional Public Schools
    • New York NY/ OPINION: The Kids Are (Not) All Right
  • 17 April 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (4/17/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Atalaya Elementary School Students, Staff Moving to Kaune for Construction
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Narrows Options for High School Reform
    • Santa Fe/ District Pushes for Clear Info on Charter Schools
    • Rio Rancho/ School District Considering Resisting State's Proposed Evaluation System
    • ABQ/ ABQ Institute for Mathematics and Science: APS Charter School Among Most Challenging
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Santa Fe Public Schools Making Most of Tight Budget
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Nearly $500 Million From Race to Top Funding Early Learning, District Ideas
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: A Failing Grade for Broadband
    • New York NY/ OPINION: The Scramble to Sit at the Blended Learning Table
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Framing the School Technology Dream
  • PSCOC NEWSLETTER April, 11 2013  (4/19/2013)
  • PSCOC NEWSLETTER - FY12  (5/31/2012)
  • 16 April 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (4/16/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ APS Signs $11 Million Deal for Digital Textbooks
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ Tired of Waiting, Employers Provide Just-in-Time Education
    • Denver CO/ Colorado Court Approves Changes to Plan for Educating English Learners
    • Washington DC/ Schools Demanding News Literacy Lessons
    • New York NY/ Maendeleo, Intel Bring Solar-Powered Tech Education to Rural Uganda
  • 13-15 April 2013: NEWS DIGEST  (4/15/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ NM's Early Childhood Education Gets Funding Boost
    • ABQ/ APS to Expand Course Offerings
    • ABQ/ State Special Education Grant Timeline Irks School Officials
    • Española/ First Born Program: Help for First-time Parents
    • ABQ/ NM Among Worst Nationally in Child Abuse Deaths
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Superintendent Brooks Correct-APS Needs Strategic Plan
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Teacher Evaluation Criticism Doesn't Add Up for NM
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Digital Learning Way of the Future
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Supt. Boyd on Budget Strategy Maximizing Resources
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ Tests So New They Outpace Lesson Plan
    • Washington DC/ GED Will Go Digital Next Year in VA, Elsewhere
    • Kansas City MO/ Some States Dropping GED as Test Price Spikes
    • Miami FL/ Instruction of Students Learning English Bleak
    • Minneapolis MN/ Quietly, Indians Reshape Cities and Reservations
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Teachers - Will We Ever Learn?
  • 12 April 2013: NEWS DIGEST  (4/12/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ New State Law Offers Schools Relief from Class-Size Rules
    • Santa Fe/ Proposed Compact Offers Online Education Common Market
    • Española/ Odysseyware: District Buys Education Software for Online Learners
    • Chimayó/ New Site for Northern New Mexico Inquiry Science Consortium Inspire Students
    • Raton/ Effort Targets High Truancy with Change to Magistrate Court
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ State Lines May Ease for Classes Held Online
    • Washington DC/ Higher Education Leaders Move to Ease Online Rules
    • Washington DC/ Qualified Math Teachers Elusive for Struggling Students
    • Washington DC/ Worldreader Provides Access to e-Books Through Mobile Phones
  • 11 April 2013: NEWS DIGEST   (4/11/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ UNM-CEPR Presents at CEOs for Cities
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Preschool Network Puts 'Innovation' Grant to Test
    • New York NY/ Research on How, Where Online Education Works
    • New York NY/ Parents Choose Unique School Takeover Model in 'Trigger' Vote
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: What Teachers Need and Reformers Ignore: Time
  • 10 April 2013: NEWS DIGEST  (4/10/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Tensions Rise Over New Teacher Evaluation System
    • Santa Fe/ As Literacy Funding Dips, Tension Among Nonprofits Grows
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Common Science Standards Make Formal Debut
    • New York NY/ New Guidelines Call for Broad Changes in Science Education
    • Washington DC/ Math 'Publishers' Criteria' Aim to Guide Common-Core Materials
    • Houston TX/ OPINION: Texas Turnaround Becomes Model for Success
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Is Online Learning Only for STEM?
  • 9 April 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (4/9/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Aztec/ Teacher Irene Barry Develops Online Courses for Rural Teachers in Guatemala
    • ABQ/ 'Book Camp' Graduates Young Readers, ABQ School Break Activities
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: APS Can't Bandage Its Budget
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • San Antonio TX/ Teacher Knows If You've Done the E-Reading
    • Washington DC/ Digital Public Library: Promise of the Internet Fulfilled
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: School Budgets and Social Media
  • 6-8 April 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST (rs)  (4/8/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ APS Bucks State Teacher Evaluations
    • Santa Fe/ Dropouts: Finding Out Why Kids Quit, How to Get Them Back
    • Santa Fe/ Language Barrier Forced Dropout Decision
    • Rio Rancho/ Learning to Speak Chinese
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Bills Meet End with Governor's Veto
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Common-Core Curricula Spark Teacher Resistance
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: YouthBuild, Building Better Futures with Education
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Can a Computer Pass the "Teacher Turing Test"?
  • 5 April 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (4/5/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ State's Public Schools May See Slight Bump in Funding
    • Raton/ School District Plans Virgin Galactic Aerospace Program
    • Española/ La Tierra Montessori Students Learn as They Clear Los Luceros Acequia
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Give Manzano, APS 3 Cheers for Hazing Reaction
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ Essay-Grading Software Offers Professors a Break
    • Washington DC/ Cursive Handwriting Disappearing from Public Schools
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: School Reforms More of a Racket
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Bill Gates-A Fairer Way to Evaluate Teachers
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Bill Gates' Op-ed-Don't Overuse Tests in Teachers' Evaluations
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Restorative Justice Practices in Every Classroom
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Bridging the School-Community Divide in Digital Learning
  • 4 April 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (4/4/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ PED Expects State Aid Increase for NM Schools
    • Alamogordo/ Virtual Academy: Online Program Grows, Ideas for Funding Needed
    • ABQ/ APS to Require Proof of Residency Each Year
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS School Reform Ideas on the Table
    • Los Alamos/ LA School Board to Streamline Meetings
    • Gallup/ Jefferson Elementary School Begins Free Glidden Makeover
    • Rio Rancho/ EDITORIAL: The ASK Academy Practices What It Teaches
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Graduation Tests Give NM Diplomas Value
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: Prevention Best Tool Against Bullying
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Test Groups Weigh Unified Accommodations Policies
    • Oakland CA/ Opening Up, Students Transform a Vicious Circle
    • Washington DC/ Nationwide Math Problem: Job Seekers' Skills Way Below Par
    • Washington DC/ECS Report: State Kindergarten Policies Show Inequities
    • New York NY/ OPINION: 5 Unexpected Benefits of a Wired School
    • New York NY/ OPINION: The Child, the Tablet and the Developing Mind
  • 3 April 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (4/3/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Tularosa/ Teacher-Evaluation Template Ready for PED Approval
    • ABQ/ Boundaries May Change at North Star and Double Eagle Elementary Schools
    • Taos/ 3 Students Win at National American Indian Science and Engineering Fair
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ School Districts, Colleges Identify Technology Infrastructure Shortcomings
    • Palo Alto CA/ Stanford to Help Build edX MOOC Platform
    • Memphis TN/ Crucible of Change in Memphis as State Takes On Failing Schools
    • New York NY/ Girls Who Code: Gateway for Girls to Enter the Computer Field
  • 2 April 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (4/2/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Deming/ NM Officials Rank DMS 2nd for Facilities in Need of Improvements
    • Farmington/ Funding Could Help Address Overcrowding at Northeast Elementary School
    • ABQ/ New Tests Aim to Equip Students with Needed Skills
    • Cimarron/ School Board Selects New Superintendent: Adan Estrada
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Tucson AZ/ Arizona English-Learner Program Upheld in Federal Court
    • Washington DC/ Engineering Building a Foundation in K-12 Curricula
    • Boulder CO/ CU-Boulder Profs to Teach Global Classrooms Through MOOCs
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: The New Challenges of Teaching
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Early Learning Prerequisite for Success in the Hispanic Community
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Steps and Leaps into Next-Gen Learning
  • 30 March-1 April 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (4/1/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Governor Vetoes 7 School Bills
    • Santa Fe/ Educator Pension Fix Signed into Law
    • Santa Fe/ Governor Signs Education Pension Overhaul
    • Rio Rancho/ New Culinary Arts Classroom Opens at Rio Rancho High School
    • ABQ/ UNM-CEPR Presents Webinar to Nationwide Strive Network
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: $1 Million Should Be Real Money, Even to APS
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima" Still Fuels Fears
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Santa Fe High's Naval ROTC Instills Pride, Discipline
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Too Much Emphasis on Tribes
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Early Education is a National Security Issue
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Don't Forget Charter Schools When Reforming Education
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Math Teachers Strive to Bring Core to At-Risk Students
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: MOOCs, Sensors, Apps and Games: The Revolution in Education Innovation
    • Bloomington IN/ OPINION: Early Education the Moral Thing To Do
    • New York NY/ OPINION: "Bring Your Own Device" and the Digital Divide
  • 29 March 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (3/29/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Clovis/ 2 New Schools Set for May Completion, Renovations on 2 Additional Schools Finished
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Ending the Standoff Over Education Reform
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ What's Needed for Preschool to Pay Off? 2 Studies Offer Insights
    • Washington DC/ New Study: States Can Afford Better Tests by Restructuring Costs
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: On the Question of Student Privacy
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Why We Must Learn From the Learners
  • 28 March 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/28/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Magdalena/ Schools Face $300,000 Budget Shortfall
    • Santa Fe/ NM Police Leaders Endorse Early Childhood Programs
    • Socorro/ First 2,000 Days: Program Focuses on Early Childhood
    • Rio Rancho/ Advanced Placement Enrollment Up 'Exponentially' at RR School District
    • Farmington/ PAX Good Behavior Game: Schools to Expand Student Behavior Program
    • Deming/ EDITORIAL: Education Pension Fund Bill Should Be Approved
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Education Department Launches 2013 Investing in Innovation (i3) Competition
    • Washington DC/ District School Facilities Plan Considers Charters for 1st Time
    • Washington DC/ Districts Want E-Rate Help Beyond School Walls
    • Washington DC/ Race to Top Districts 'Personalize' Plans
    • Sonoma CA/ Partnership Blends Science and English Proficiency
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Special K: Don't sleep on Khan Academy, Knewton
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Competitive Timed Tests Might Be Contributing to the Gender Gap in Math
  • 27 March 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/27/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Farmington/ School Board Awards Bid for Early Childhood Center
    • ABQ/ Cuidando Los Niños: Homeless Preschoolers Use Cameras to Document Lives
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: APS Right to Require Annual Residency Proof
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: PARCC Testing Method Has Serious Deficiencies
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Chicago IL/ Indiana's Expansive School Voucher Program Upheld: A Model for Others?
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: School Vouchers: Still a Bad Idea Despite Indiana Court Ruling
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Why We Can't Threaten Our Way to Better Schools
    • New York NY/ FILM REVIEW: When Knowing Everything About Your Students Isn't Enough
  • 26 March 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/26/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ 2 Bills Target Skandera's Public Education Commission Decision
    • Santa Fe/ Low Teacher Morale Not Just About Pay
    • Rio Rancho/ School Board Not Pleased with Teacher Evaluation Change
    • Shiprock/ CCSD to Kick Off Diné Immersion Program at Eva B. Stokely Elementary School
    • Clovis/ Power 2 Parents: Seminars Target Parental Issues
    • ABQ/ Finally! Chicano Studies Degree at UNM
    • Cimarron/ Cimarron High School Preparing to Graduate 100th Class This Year
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Boston MA/ Teacher-Prep Programs Zero In on Effective 'Practice'
    • Washington DC/ Districts Place High Priority on 1-to-1 Computing
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Can Open Educational Resources Rise Again?
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: The Price of Education [Facilities]
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Common Core State Standards & STEM: Raising the Bar
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: How Bilingual Brains Think Outside the Box[es]
  • 23-25 March 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (3/25/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Moriarty-Edgewood/ Schools Initiate $5 Million Bond Sale
    • Taos/ LANL Sponsors STEM Challenge for Students Grades 6-12 in Northern NM, Taos
    • Santa Fe/ Senate Rules Committee May Hold Summer Hearing on Skandera Confirmation
    • ABQ/ APS May Want Residency Proof Yearly
    • Shiprock/ Bribery Allegations Shake Central Consolidated School District
    • Estancia/ Panel to Take Up Estancia Schools Budget
    • Rio Rancho/ ASK Academy to include Grades 7, 8
    • Grants/ Student-Produced Metal Fence Enhances Grants High School
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: School Reform Still a Moving Target in Legislature
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Chicago IL/ COLUMN: Latest Rx for Children: Reach Out and Read
    • Chicago IL/ COLUMN: New System Rids Language Barrier
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Bring Your Own Tech to School... and Become a Hacker!
  • 22 March 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/22/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Cibola County/ Important Tests Loom for Area High School Students
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ More States Consider 'Parent Trigger' Laws
    • Washington DC/ Are High School Science Teachers Getting Enough Training?
    • Washington DC/ ESSAY: The Touch-Screen Generation
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: What Successful Classroom Teachers Do to Stop Bullying
  • 21 March 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (3/21/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Alamogordo/ School Board Picks Site for New Elementary School
    • Santa Fe/ AG's Opinion Sought after Skandera Hearings
    • Santa Fe/ AG's Opinion Asked on Whether Skandera Actions Stray from State Law
    • ABQ/ Homework During Break Preps Students
    • Farmington/ Piedra Vista High School Library Wins 2013 Outstanding School Library Award
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Whittier Elementary School Works to Make the Grade
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ US School Buildings Earn D Grade in Federal Infrastructure Report
    • Washington DC/ School Districts Seek Faster Internet Connections
    • New Brunswick NJ/ Report Demonstrates Continuing Value of Preschool for NJ's Poorest Kids
    • Boise ID/ Idaho Pilots Effort to Integrate Khan Academy Videos
    • Loveland CO/ Conrad Ball Middle School Extends School Day with Math and Language Arts
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Magical Thinking about Technology in Education
  • 20 March 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/20/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ School Board Approves Resolution Opposing Cell Tower
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Opposes Cell Tower by K-8 Gonzales Community School
    • Deming/ Truancy Crackdown for Deming Schools
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: SFPS & SFCC Talk of Teaming for Elections
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: The Dream School
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ TRANSCRIPT: A Level Playing Field, an Equal Starting Line
    • Washington DC/ In Common Core, Teachers See Interdisciplinary Opportunities
    • Washington DC/ New MOOC Offers Technology Training for K-12 Administrators
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: How School Reform Became the Cause Célèbre of Billionaires
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: How Middle School Failures Lead to Medical School Success
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Why Aren't Low-Income Students Succeeding in School?
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Who's Afraid of Big Data?
  • 19 March 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (3/19/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Portales/ State Education Funding Increases $112 Million
    • Taos/ Student Numbers Updated as Charter Lotteries Near
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Charters Held to Higher Standards
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Florida Should Not Be New Mexico's Education Model
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Hanna Skandera vs. Sen. Molasses
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ 'Green Schools' Go on National Display
    • Washington DC/ Ed-Tech PD Focuses on Student Learning Needs
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Privacy, Big Data and Education: More on inBloom Databases
  • 16-18 March 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (3/18/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ APS Funding Levels to Stay About Same
    • Santa Fe/ Home-School Bill Sent to Governor
    • Santa Fe/ Legislature Revamps School Grading Formula
    • Magdalena/ Alamo Navajo School Board Honored for Collaborative Forestry Program
    • Silver City/ Greenhouse Newest Addition to Guadalupe Montessori School
    • Santa Fe/ Governor Blasts Senate for Not Voting on Education Secretary-Designate Skandera
    • ABQ: COLUMN/ Reaching 3rd-Grade Reading Goals
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Fight, Hide or Flee? Teens Speak on Gunman Response
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Time for Teaching Hijacked by Tests
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: NM Virtual Academy: Online School Public, Run by New Mexicans
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Inclusion Remains Nettlesome Topic for NAEP Officials
    • Washington DC/ Global Study Finds Math, Reading Gaps by Gender Persist
    • Austin TX/ A Tough Road for Charter Proposal
    • New York NY/ Nine High Schools, One Roof
    • Rockville MD/ Experts Make Case for Later School-Start Times
    • Buffalo NY/ Districts Find Youngest Students Among Most Absent
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Reading, Writing and Video Games
  • 15 March 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (3/15/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Skandera Hearing May Still Be Held
    • Deming/ 2 Schools Recognized at Capital for Bilingual Work
    • Angel Fire/ Grow on the Bus: Greenhouse Helps Student-Gardeners
    • Española/ School District Superintendent Art Blea Resigns Citing Health
    • Santa Fe/ Public Invited to Santa Fe Public Schools Board of Education Retreat
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Diversity Shouldn't Be Controversial
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Data-Sharing GOALS Data Development Drives Change
    • New York NY/ Taking College Courses in High School: New Dual Enrollment Data
    • New Orleans LA/ Los Angeles Superintendent John Deasy: Depoliticize Education Research
    • Washington DC/ Stemming the Tide of English-Learner Dropouts
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Big Bucks for Blended Learning in K-12: Where's the Evidence?
  • 14 March 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/14/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ NM Legislature Approves $5.88 Billion Budget, Gov. Martinez Veto Expected
    • Santa Fe/ Nora Espinoza, New Mexico Legislator: Keep Mexican-American Studies Books Out of Schools
    • Rio Rancho/ Proposed PED Teacher and Principal Evaluation System Angers RRPS
    • Silver City/ Charter Schools 4-Year Graduation Rates Low
    • ABQ/ OPINION: It's Vital for Us to Focus on Early Childhood Education
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ NYC Experts, Officials Blast New Student Database
    • New York NY/ Who Should Be in the Gifted Program?
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Will Common Core Hurt Struggling Readers?
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Helping Education Leaders Grow
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Testing Consortium Reorganizes for Long-Term Survival
  • 13 March 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (3/13/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Senate OKs $5.9 Billion Budget
    • Santa Fe/ Senate OKs Budget with State Worker Pay Raise
    • Santa Fe/ Constitutional Amendment for Early Childhood Education Reaches Senate
    • ABQ/ APS Considers North Star Elementary School Boundary Change
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Permanent Fund Raid Not Fiscally Appetizing
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ School Maintenance Report Shows Need For $542 Billion To Update, Modernize Buildings
    • Orlando FL/ 2013 AIA Conference Keynote: Rising to the Challenge of Educational Change
    • Washington DC/ Digital Learning Priorities Influence School Building Design
    • Washington DC/ Details Trickling Out on Latest NCLB Waiver Bids
    • Boston MA/ No Division Required in This School [Districting] Problem
    • Washington DC/ $2.3 Billion Federal E-Rate, Subsidy for Internet for Schools Expansion Proposed
    • Providence RI/ Top City in Contest of Ideas [Early Childhood Literacy]
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: The Problem with High-Tech 'Personalized' Learning Tools
  • 12 March 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/12/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Deming/ OPINION: Invest in Early Childhood Education
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ 11 States Will Continue to Receive SIG Turn Around Funding [inc. NM]
    • Los Angeles CA/ LAUSD Invites Proposals for Major Ed-Tech Contract, Up to $500 Million Over Time
    • Washington DC/ States Draw Hard Line on 3rd-Graders, Holding Some Back Over Reading
    • Washington DC/ Political Potshots Keep New Mexico K-12 Chief's Fate Up in the Air
    • New York NY/ OPINION: What Technology Can (and Can't) Do for Education
    • New Haven CT/ OPINION: Defining Bullying Down
  • 9-11 March 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/11/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Senate Rules Committee Continues Skandera Confirmation Hearing, No Vote
    • Santa Fe/ 3rd Day of Testimony Ends with No Vote on Skandera
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Teachers Need Better Means to Advancement
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: An Education in Politics
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Give Skandera a Chance to Boost NM Education
    • Santa Fe/ OBITUARY: NM Loses an Education Icon, Arlene Ackerman
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Commission Calls for 'Radically Different' Tests
    • Washington DC/ Obama Proposal Raises Issue of Pre-K Teacher Prep
    • Washington DC/ Districts See Value in Ensuring Home-School Connections
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: 'Storm of Reform' - Principal Details Damage Done
    • St. Paul MN/ Q&A with Melvin Carter: Trying to Break the Poverty Cycle in Minnesota
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Recognizing the Impact of After-School STEM
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Tracing Technology's Unintended K-12 Effects
    • Rose Valley PA/ OPINION: The 100th Day-Learning's Tipping Point Deep in the School Year
  • 7 March 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST 2  (3/8/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Public Education Commission Appeals Skandera Decision on Charter Approvals
    • Silver City/ Aldo Leopold High School: Grant County's Only Charter School Expands to Include Middle School
    • Deming/ School District Offers Parents Free English, Spanish Classes
    • ABQ/ NM: Obesity Rising Among Kids in Grades K-3
    • Santa Fe/ New Mexico Ranked One of the Worst States for Teacher Absenteeism
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Hanna Skandera Deserves a Vote
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Let's Take Big, Bold Steps for Our State
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ Schools, and Syllabuses, Designed With the Environment in Mind
    • New York NY/ Big Data and Schools: Education Nirvana or Privacy Nightmare?
    • Oklahoma City OK/ Public Preschool for All 4-Year Olds: Test Case
    • New York NY/ News Corporation Will Sell its Own 10" Android Tablet for K-12 Schoolchildren
    • Washington DC/ Governors Take Varied Paths in Boosting K-12 Aid
    • Washington DC/ Principal Appraisals Get a Remake
    • Washington DC/ Teaching Computer Coding in K-12
    • New York NY/ EDITORIAL: How to Start a Good School Day
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Are Grading Trends Hurting Socially Awkward Kids?
  • 6 March 2013: PSFA News Digest   (3/6/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ NM Senate Scraps New Grading System for Schools
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: "Santa Fe Public Schools at the Legislature" Day
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Teachers Deserve True Respect
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ New School-Level Graduation Rate Data Released to Better Inform Parents, District Leaders
    • Washington DC/ Assessment Consortium Releases Testing Time Estimates
    • Washington DC/ Career Technical Education Linked to High School Survival for Boys
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Does Spelling Count?
    • New York NY/ OPINION: The Country That Stopped Reading
  • 5 March 2013: PSFA NEWS DIGEST [2]  (3/5/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Taos/ PEC Appeals Reversal of 2 Charter School Denials
    • Santa Fe/ Governor Targets More Funding for AP Classes
    • Shiprock/ Shiprock High School Music Department Returns after 10 Years
    • Maxwell/ Superintendent Chuck Harrison Retires, 38 Years in Education in Texas, NM
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Finally, a Vote on Skandera
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Teacher-Evaluation Plans Bedevil Waiver States
    • Washington DC/ Push Under Way to Standardize ELL Definitions
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Foreign Language Policies Around the World
  • 2-4 March 2013: PSFA NEWSDIGEST  (3/4/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Confirmation Hearing Resumes for State Secretary of Education
    • Santa Fe/ Senate Panel to Decide Education Secretary-Designate Hanna Skandera's Fate
    • Santa Fe/ No End in Sight to Skandera Confirmation Hearing
    • Santa Fe/ Senate Rules Committee Delays Vote on Skandera's Confirmation
    • Santa Fe/ Santa Fe High School Student Forum: Multimedia 'Dream' School Reform Proposal
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: $2,000 Choir Trips Not in APS' Core Mission
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Forget Above and Below, Bottom Line is Results
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Bill's Teacher Merit Pay Idea Not Best Solution
    • ABQ/ OPINION: APS Needs to Rethink Priorities Around Arts Activities
    • ABQ/ REPORT: CEPR Presentation to LANL Foundation Board
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Student Database Backed by Gates Foundation Jazzes Tech Startups, Spooks Parents
    • San Francisco CA/ Where Apps Meet Work, Secret Data Is at Risk
    • Washington DC/ Character Education Seen as Student-Achievement Tool
    • St. Lawrence Island AK/ In Remote Alaskan Villages, Teachers Struggle to Make School Meaningful
    • New York NY/ Keeping an Eye on Online Test-Takers
    • Terre Haute IN/ Sticky Notes Promote Acts of Kindness in Schools
    • New York NY/ Getting In Without the SAT
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Bringing Music Back to School
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Capitalists for Preschool
    • Los Angeles CA/ OPINION: Why Are Walmart Billionaires Bankrolling School 'Reform' In LA?
  • 1 March 2013: PSFA News Digest [2]  (3/1/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ House: Keep Permanent Fund Payout Level
    • Santa Fe/ House Approves Tapping into Permanent Fund for Schools
    • Santa Fe/ Education Secretary-Designate Hanna Skandera's Charter Approval Appealed by PEC
    • Santa Fe/ Senate Democrats: Get Past Education Rhetoric
    • Moriarty/ School Board Talks Testing
    • ABQ/ Room at Rio Grande High to be Rid of Asbestos
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Education Secretary-Designate Hanna Skandera Has Earned NM's Support
    • Española/ EDITORIAL: Implement Strategic Plan
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Roundhouse 2013: Above and Below the Battle Line
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ New Efforts to Reduce Gender-Based Violence
    • Washington DC/ Common Core Standards Worrying Teachers
    • Washington DC/ Pew Survey: Digital Divide 'Major Challenge' in Teaching Low-Income Students
    • Denver CO/ Colorado Appeals Court: Douglas County School Voucher System Legal
    • Denver CO/ Colorado Court of Appeals Overturns School Voucher Block
    • New York NY/ COLUMN: The Learning Virtues
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: 5 Things to Know about the SAT
  • 28 February 2013: PSFA News Digest  (2/28/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ House OKs Proposed Solvency Fix for Teacher Pension Plan
    • Santa Fe/ House OKs Pension ERB Reform Bill
    • Santa Fe/ Sen. Morales Clears Hurdle in Challenging NM Schools A-F Grading
    • Santa Fe/ PED Secretary-Designate Hanna Skandera Confirmation Hearing Friday
    • Santa Fe/ Should Corporate Education Firms Influence State Reform Policies?
    • Socorro/ School Board Hears District Updates
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ The New Ed-Tech Leader Models by Digital Example
    • Albany NY/ IBM, NY to Create New Technical Education Programs in Public Schools
    • New York NY/ Local School Districts New Target of Education Reformers
    • Lacachi PERU/ Logistics Unhinge Peru's Laptop Dreams
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Research on Preschool-Setting the Record Straight
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Poverty's Prominent Role in Absenteeism
    • Palo Alto CA/ $1 Million TED Prize 2013 Winner Sugata Mitra: We Need Schools, Not Factories
    • New York NY/ INTERVIEW: Sugata Mitra, 2013 TED Prize Winner
  • 27 February 2013: PSFA News Digest  (2/27/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ State Land Office Earns $52.6 Million for Public Schools, Institutions
    • Santa Fe/ PEC to Challenge Skandera's Authority Over Charter Schools in Court
    • Aztec/ Schools Approve Another Mill Levy Election
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ College-Remedial Placements Found to Be Overused
    • Washington DC/ Mathematica 2013 Study: KIPP Charter School Students Outperform Public School Peers
    • Washington DC/ Gates, Zuckerberg, other Tech Icons Promote Youth Coding in New Film
  • 26 February 2013 PSFA News Digest   (2/26/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ APS Prepares for $9 Million Shortfall in Coming Year
    • ABQ/ Early College Academy: Magnet School's Graduation Rate 91.7 Percent
    • Aztec/ School District to Work with Firm on Campus Security
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Dispelling Charter School Myths
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: The Tao of Poeh, A School for Being, Sharing and Laughing
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ New School Turnaround Americorps Program Announced
    • Washington DC/ School Turnaround Americorps Program Will Cost $15M, Target Poor Performance
    • Washington DC/ Watchdog Gnaws on Foundation with Jeb Bush Ties
    • Washington DC/ Companies Aim to Leverage Open-Source Opportunities
    • Washington DC/ State Councils Propel STEM Education
    • Denver CO/ Pediatricians Oppose School Suspension, Expulsion
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Why Preschool Isn't Enough
  • 23-25 February 2013 PSFA News Digest   (2/25/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Taos/ Skandera Overturns Decision to Deny New Charter School in Taos
    • Santa Fe/ Student Retention Proposal Tabled
    • Santa Fe/ Committee Tables Governor-Supported Bill to End Promotion of 3rd-Graders Who Can't Read
    • Santa Fe/ Questioning Test Scores
    • Santa Fe/ Superintendent Boyd Unveils New Budget Plan That Gives Schools More Autonomy
    • Las Cruces/ Many Charter High Schools See Low 4-Year Graduation Rates
    • Santa Fe/ Bill Addresses Money for Home-Schoolers
    • ABQ/ Booster Issues Concern School Board: Bill for Joining School Choir Tops $2,000
    • Shiprock/ High School Rescinds "No-Zero" Grading Policy for Current School Year
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Pay Attention to School Votes
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Let's Show Educators Respect They Deserve
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Virtual Learning Will Open Doors
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Don't Buy the Single Story on Capital High
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ HS Graduation Rate In US on Pace to Reach 90 Percent By 2020
    • Lambert MS/ Lessons from Pre-K That Works: Will Mississippi's Children Finally Move Ahead?
    • Denver CO/ gSchool in Session, Expanding with User Experience (UX) Design Program
    • Washington DC/ College 'E-Advisers' Show Promise for K-12 Schools
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: District NCLB Waivers: Do Risks Outweigh Rewards?
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Making School Work for Student Nomads
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: How to Stop the Bullies
    • Washington DC/ INTERVIEW with Emily Bazelon: Can We Really Stop Bullying?
  • 22 February 2013: PSFA News Digest   (2/22/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Public Education Department Aims to Avoid Federal Special Education Funding Penalty
    • Alamogordo/ District May Push Back Opening of New Elementary School
    • Española/ School Board Approves Strategic Plan for District
    • Española/ School District Busts Budget
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/Arne Duncan on NCLB Waivers, Sequestration, Common Core
    • New York NY/ Test Scores of Hispanics Vary Widely Across 5 Most Populous States
    • Austin TX/ Weighing Prospect of Changes in High School Graduation Requirements
    • Washington DC/ Public School for 3-Year-Olds Already the Norm in DC
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Celebrate Our Mother Tongues
  • 21 February 2013: PSFA News Digest   (2/21/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ School Board Backs Revamp of School Grading System
    • Santa Fe/ Expansion Costs for Early Childhood Education
    • Santa Fe/ School Board Member Glenn Wikle Censured
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: A School Board Vote to Censure
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Reading, Teacher Pay Need to Be On the Table

    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Federal Commission Urges Bold Steps to Boost Education Equity
    • Washington DC/ Survey Finds Rising Job Frustration Among Principals
    • New York NY/ Teacher Job Satisfaction at 25-Year Low
    • New York NY/ Universities Abroad Join Partnerships on the Web
    • New York NY/ Revamped GED Faces First Big Challenge
    • New York NY/ Study Finds Effects of Bullying Last Into Adulthood
    • Washington DC/ New Duke Study Links Childhood Bullying to Adult Psychological Disorders
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: US Teachers' Job Satisfaction Craters
    • New York NY/ OPINION: The Benefits of Positive Parenting
  • 20 February 2013: PSFA News Digest   (2/20/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Cloudcroft/ School Board Proposal to Refund Bonds
    • ABQ/ Native American Community Academy Blends Native Culture, City Life
    • ABQ/ Charitable Endowment Started at Atrisco Heritage Academy
    • Santa Fe/ In Last Act, Outgoing Board Members Extend Superintendent's Contract
    • Shiprock/ CCSD Renews Superintendent's Contract after 4-Hour Closed Meeting
    • ABQ/ NM Teachers Missing Many School Days
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Children Fall Victim to Legislature
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Closing Education Achievement Gap: Blue Ribbon Panel Offers Blueprint
    • Washington DC/ Federal Grant Prospect Reignites Kindergarten-Assessment Debate
    • Washington DC/ Equity And Excellence Commission Report Warns Of Failure To Right Unfair U.S. Schools
    • Denver CO/ Colorado District, Union Team Up to Solve Budget Crunch
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Sal Kahn on his Famous Online Academy
  • 19 February 2013: PSFA News Digest  (2/19/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Democrats in NM House Block School Retention Bill
    • Santa Fe/ State Kicks Off Early Learning Challenge, Program Includes an Award
    • Carlsbad/ School Board to Vote on Special Grants for Schools
    • Estancia/ Middle-School Asbestos Abatement Cost Assessed Before Demolition
    • ABQ/ Congressman Ben Ray Lujan Pushes to Continue Native Language Programs
    • Santa Fe/ LETTER: Make Early Reading a Community Priority
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Overhaul of Teacher-Prep Standards Targets Recruitment, Performance
    • Lambert MS/ In Mississippi, Private Money and Strong Principals Boost Struggling Schools
    • West Palm Beach FL/ Gym Class Isn't Just Fun and Games Anymore
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Why Teach For America Can't Recruit in My Classroom
  • 16-18 February 2013: PSFA News Digest  (2/18/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Tapping New Mexico's Land Grant Permanent Fund
    • Santa Fe/ State Land Commissioner Ray Powell Favors Land Transfer Alternative
    • Santa Fe/ Permanent or Rainy Day?
    • Santa Fe/ Remediation, Retention Bills Advance
    • ABQ/ 2 New Members to APS Board Have Charter School Ties
    • Santa Fe/ School Board's Use of Private Emails Raises Questions of Transparency
    • Santa Fe/ School Superintendent's Leading Critic, Domestic Partner of SFPS Board Member
    • Santa Fe/ Schools Chiefs' Salary-Cap Bill Fails
    • Farmington/ Parents as Teachers: Program Seeks to Empower Parents
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Debate Over Online Schools the Wrong One
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: SWAT Gets Serious with Comedy Skits
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Education Needs More Than Just Money - Reform
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Teachers May Be Unfairly Punished
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: School or Food- The Choice for So Many Families in Santa Fe
    • Santa Fe/ LETTER/ Disagreeing Board Member Good for Democracy
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ 'Big Three' Publishers Rethink K-12 Strategies
    • New York NY/ Schools Ask: Gifted or Just Well-Prepared?
    • Seattle WA/ Study: Nonviolent TV Shows Improve Preschool Kids' Behavior
    • New York NY/ Certain Television Fare Can Help Ease Aggression in Young Children
    • New York NY/ EDITORIAL: Getting Preschool Education Right
  • 15 February 2013: PSFA News Digest  (2/15/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ A-F Revamped? Proposed Bill to Rework State's System for Grading Schools
    • Shiprock/ Shiprock High School Adopts Inflated Grading System
    • Cibola County/ New School Superintendent Marc Space 'Looking Forward' to NM
    • Española/ McCurdy Charter School E911 Calls Jump
    • ABQ/ OPINION: 'Trojan Horses' Undermine Schools
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Districts Move to the Cloud to Power Up, Save Money
  • 14 February 2013: PSFA News Digest  (2/14/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ APS to Audit Enrollment at Overcrowded North Star Elementary School
    • ABQ/ APS Unveils Tech Books, Text Books May Soon Be Gone
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Constitution's No Place for Smaller Class Sizes
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: International Flair
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Using Permanent Funds Will Hurt Nothing
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ President Obama Outlines Bold Education Proposals to Grow the Middle Class
    • Washington DC/ Obama's Universal Preschool Proposal: Game-Changer or Federal Overreach?
    • New York NY/ Details Emerge on Obama's Call to Extend Preschool
    • New York NY/ Preschool Proposal Faces Uncertain Future
    • Washington DC/ Obama Proposal Reflects Shift in Views on Early Childhood Education
    • Garrett IN/ Rural Indiana School Leader Helps Wire a Community
  • 13 February 2013: PSFA News Digest   (2/13/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ NM School for Arts Seeks State Funds
    • Santa Fe/ Bill Would Bar Private Firms from Operating State's Public Schools
    • Santa Fe/ Capital High School Students Voice School Reform Ideas
    • Taos/ Wing of Taos Middle School Dedicated to Frutoso López
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Gov. Martinez' Administration Policies Hurting Students
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ President Obama Urges Big Preschool Expansion in State of the Union Speech
    • New York NY/ State of the Union Features Historic Focus on Early Education
    • Washington DC/ BYOD: Schools Set Boundaries for Use of Students' Digital Devices
    • Washington DC/ Studies Find Vocabulary Instruction Falling Short
    • Denver CO/ Process Slammed for Yielding No Latino Denver School Board Finalists
  • 12 February 2013: PSFA News Digest  (2/12/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ NM Land Office Brings in $52.6 Million in Revenues in January
    • Farmington/ Area School Districts See High School Graduation Rates Rise and Fall
    • ABQ/ UNM-CEPR Presentation to the National Afterschool Network
    • Portales/ Superintendent Randy Fowler Announces Plans to Retire
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: ABQ High School Graduation Rate of 70% Noteworthy
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: 2 Programs Put Parents, Students First
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Texas: Pharr-San Juan-Alamo School District Goes Door to Door to Find Dropouts
    • Denver CO/ Critics Linger, but Colorado Girds for Roll-Out of Common Core Standards
    • New York NY/ Community Colleges Help Train Teachers
    • Washington DC/ Virtual Educators Critique Value of MOOCs for K-12
    • New York NY/ COLUMN: How Advertising Targets Our Children
  • 9-11 February 2013: PSFA News Digest  (2/11/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ House Education Committee Approves 5% Hike in Education Funds, Teacher Pay Raise
    • Estancia/ School Bond Election: 2 Bonds Approved
    • Socorro/ School Elections: Mill Levy and General Obligation School Bond Pass
    • ABQ/ APS Crammed Classes
    • Las Cruces/ Mayfield High School: Largest Budget in Las Cruces School District
    • Deming/ Are Schools Safe? Student, Faculty Safety Brought to Forefront
    • Rio Rancho/ RRPS Board Will Evaluate Superintendent Sue Cleveland
    • Santa Fe/ Bill Would Make Bullying a Misdemeanor Crime
    • Santa Fe/ New Mexicans Seek to Honor Noted 'Forgotten' Latino Scholar: George I. Sanchez
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Increasing Distributions Takes Permanent Out of NM's Funds
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Contrary School Board Member Should Step Down
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Reading Help Must Start Before 3rd Grade
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ Holding States and Schools Accountable
    • Washington DC/ Schools Can Help Combat Sexual Exploitation, Trafficking of Children
    • New York NY/ Impatient Employers Step In to Educate Prospective Workers
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: A REAL Paradigm Shift in Education
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: A Mission (Hill) for Education Policy? School Facilities Matter
    • New York/ OPINION: The Secret to Fixing Bad Schools
  • 8 February 2013: PSFA News Digest   (2/8/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Grants/ Officials Break Ground for Performing Arts Center at Grants High School
    • Grants/ School Bond Passes
    • Moriarty/ 2 School Bonds Pass
    • Maxwell/ Continuation of 2-Mill Levy Approved
    • Silver City/ Mill Levy Passes in Cobre and Silver City
    • Española/ Mixed Reactions to Big High School Graduation Rate Jump
    • Las Cruces/ Las Cruces Public Schools: Enrollment Drop at 80th Day
    • Santa Fe/ School Board Member Glenn Wikle's Emails Incur Wrath
    • Santa Fe/ Superintendent Joel Boyd's Contract Under Review
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: State Should Expand on Dual Credit Success
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Tucson AZ/ A Long Struggle for Equality in Schools
    • Tucson AZ/ Ethnic Studies to Return to Tucson in Court-Backed Desegregation Plan
    • Washington DC/ Multimedia Journalism Programs Emphasize Real-World Skills
    • Washington DC/ Enrichment Programs Fill Opportunity Gap for Students
    • Washington DC/ Secretary Arne Duncan to Congress: Giving States Flexibility is Working
    • Washington DC/ Duncan to Senate Panel: No More Invisible Children Under NCLB Waivers
    • Washington DC/ The Glory of Self-Learning, Discovered by Children in India
    • Denver CO/ $3 Million Grant for Better, Simpler Health Surveys at Colorado Schools
    • New York NY/ OPINION: $10K Bachelor's Degree Provides High Value
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Introverted Kids Need to Learn to Speak Up at School
  • 7 February 2013: PSFA News Digest  (2/7/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ School Board Member Defends Opposition to General Obligation Bond
    • Taos/ Taos 2-Mill Levy Passes, Peñasco Tax Renewal Fails
    • Rio Rancho/ Overcrowding at Maggie Cordova Elementary School Causing Concern
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Puppets, Kids and Critical Thinking
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Imagination Library Program Helps Children in Grant County Learn to Read
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Newcomb NY/ Rural Superintendent Clark Hults Buoys School with Foreign Students
    • Washington DC/ From Digital Doubter to Tech Guru
    • New York NY/ Big MOOC Coursera Moves Closer to Academic Acceptance
  • 6 February 2013: PSFA News Digest  (2/6/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ School Bond Vote Passes 3-1
    • Alamogordo/ Residents Vote to Extend Mill-Levy Tax
    • Tucumcari/ Voters Agree to Extend 2-Mill Levy for Schools
    • Farmington/ Bloomfield: Yes, Aztec: No on School Funding
    • Santa Fe/ Santa Fe Community Foundation: Nonprofit Funds Benefiting Schools with Fewer Low-Income Kids
    • ABQ/ Deadline for Sandia High's International Baccalaureate Program Near
    • ABQ/ Little Change in Superintendent Brooks' New APS Contract
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ NM Schools Chief Overrules Panel, Clears Path for Virtual School
    • Kansas City MO/ Literacy by Third Grade, a Renewed Priority for States
    • Washington DC/ For Young Illegal Immigrants, Social Security Cards Just a Small Step
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Is Parent Involvement in School Really Useful?
  • 5 February 2013: PSFA News Digest  (2/5/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ $368 Million Funding for Schools: Election Today
    • Santa Fe/ Superintendent's Reminder: Community Vote Vital for Schools
    • Santa Fe/ Voters to Decide Tax Bond [Today]
    • Otero County/ School Elections Tuesday [Today]
    • Grants/ GEAR UP: Grants High School & Los Alamitos Middle School Receive $200,000 Grant
    • ABQ/ Helping Hands: Del Norte High School's Alumni Association
    • ABQ/ APS Accepting Transfer Requests
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Voting is Crucial Today
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Student Wellness Action Teams at Capital High School Talk about Bullying
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Education Reform Should Undergo Radical Turn
    • Santa Fe/ 4 LETTERS: Election Will Matter to Children's Education
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • St. Paul MN/ Minnesota Superintendent Valeria Silva Pioneer in ELL Reforms
    • Washington DC/ National Career and Technical Education [CTE] Month Marks Pivotal Moment
    • New York NY/ Girls Lead in Science Exam, but Not in the United States
  • 2-4 February 2013: PSFA News Digest   (2/4/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Bubble Gum Brigade: Vote for APS Bonds
    • Rio Rancho/ Rep. Ben Ray Luján: ASK Academy Students 'Incredible'
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Vote for School Bonds Tuesday
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: APS, CNM Relying on You to Vote Tuesday
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: NM Needs to Deliver Its Babies from Poverty
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Early Childhood Education a Job-Maker
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Work Together to Meet Kids' Needs
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Educational Improvements in NM? Hardly
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Jackson MS/ Public School Management by For-Profits Attracts New Skepticism
    • Denver/ Recruiting Teachers from Corporate World
    • New York NY/ Timing Tips for the ACT and SAT
    • New York NY/ EDITORIAL: More Lessons About Charter Schools
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Why Much-Praised KIPP DC Expels High School Kids
  • 1 February 2013: PSFA News Digest  (2/1/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Proposal Boosts Payout from State's Permanent Fund for Early Childhood Programs
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Breaks Ground for New Agua Fria Community School
    • Española/ School District Goes Back to Voters for 2-Mill Levy
    • Silver City/ School District 2-Mil Levy Election Feb. 5
    • Santa Fe/ Skandera Overrules PEC to OK Virtual School
    • Grants/ Grants-Cibola County School Board Approves Indian Policies and Procedures
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Voters-Keep Sights on Education
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Endorsements for APS Bonds
    • Farmington/ EDITORIAL: High School Dual-Credit Programs for American Indian Students
    • Deming/ COLUMN: Teachers Use Data in Deming Classrooms
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Let's Use Fund Money to Help Young Learners
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Federal School-Level Assessment Data in Reading and Math for All Schools for 2008-09 to 2010-11
    • Washington DC/ Kids Online: Social Media Sites Can Help Develop Identity
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Scholars, Tech Insiders Tout Digital 'Bill of Rights' for Students
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Teachers and Policy Makers-Troubling Disconnect
  • 31 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/31/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Legislative Finance Committee Seeks Overhaul of School Funding Formula
    • Socorro/ Socorro and Catron County Schools Seek Funding in Election
    • Tucumcari/ Bond Issue Goes to Vote Feb. 5
    • Santa Fe/ Special Education in State May Lose $43 Million
    • Bernalillo/ Bernalillo High School Graduation Rate Up to 67%
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Focus Secondary School Reform
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Internships Help High School Students Prepare for the Workplace
    • Denver CO/ 12 Area Schools Receive $435,000 from Foundations for Great Schools Awards Program
    • New York NY/ COLUMN: Revolution Hits the Universities
  • 30 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/30/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Mayor, APS Pitch $368 Million School Renovation & Construction Funding to Voters
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Hopes Voters Approve $130 Million Bond Issue Feb. 5
    • Clovis/ $20 Million Bond Renewal Would Keep Same Taxes
    • Santa Fe/ NM Faces Loss of Up to $93 Million in Federal Special-Education Funds
    • Alamogordo/ Alamogordo High Graduation Rate is No. 4 Among 5A Schools
    • Grants/ Grants/Cibola County School Board Selects New Superintendent Marc Space
    • Santa Fe/ Legislature Takes Up Bullying as Crime
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: West Side Passes on APS
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Home Visits an Investment in Our Kids
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Seattle WA/ Skills Promoted to Aid Learning Amid Adversity
    • Washington DC/ 'i3' Raises Ante in Evidence, Research Push
  • 29 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/29/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ West Mesa High School: Full-Service Community High School
    • ABQ/ Graduation Rate Jumped After Test Change
    • Rio Rancho/ Officials: Early Intervention Leads to Graduation
    • Raton/ Good Showing for High School Graduation Rates
    • Santa Fe/ Educators Take Common Core Workshop
    • Farmington/ COLUMN: Time to End the Stalling
    • ABQ/ OPINON: Benefit of Community Schools for New Mexico
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ State Finance Lawsuits Roil K-12 Funding Landscape
    • San Diego CA/ No Academic Harm Found in Early Retirement of Teachers
    • Santa Ana CA/ 'Flipped Learning' Classroom Model Embraced by Teachers in Schools Nationwide
    • Citronelle AL/ The Web-Deprived Study at McDonald's
    • Washington DC/ Tear Down the Swing Sets
  • 26-28 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/28/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ School Groups Seek 4% Raise for NM Teachers
    • Santa Fe/ Feds May Cut Special Education Funding In New Mexico
    • Santa Fe/ Governor Pushes New Plan to Draw Teachers to NM
    • Rio Rancho/ Rio Rancho High District Sets Graduation-Rate Bar
    • ABQ/ West Mesa High School Graduation Rate Jumps 12 Points
    • Deming/ Deming High School Graduation Rate Exceeds State Average
    • Carlsbad/ Tutor's Passion for Teaching Benefits Those Seeking GED
    • Santa Fe/ W.K. Kellogg Foundation Gives $1.8 Million for Expansion of First Born Program
    • ABQ/ School Choice Advocated
    • Farmington/ George Werito: Watching Ancient Navajo Language Develop in Modern Culture
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Vote Yes on Bonds
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Better Graduation Rates Show Promise of Reform
    • Rio Rancho/ EDITORIAL: We Should Arm School Districts with Tools to Build Graduation Rates
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Students Organize Forums on Reform
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Early Education Starts at Birth
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Early Learning Needs Proper Fund Source
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Davos SWITZERLAND/ Davos Forum Considers Learning's Next Wave
    • Boulder CO/ University of Colorado May Put Some Classes Online for Free
    • New York NY/ OPINION [Bill Gates] My Plan to Fix the World's Biggest Problems
  • 25 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/25/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ NM High School Graduation Rate Soars to 70%
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS High School Graduation Rates Up, 56.5% to 61.8%
    • Santa Fe/ Gov. Martinez: New Mexico High School Graduation Rate Up 7 Points
    • Curry County/ 2 Superintendents Withhold 2012 Graduation-Rate Acceptance
    • Estancia/ $4.1 Million Bond Would Help Aging Middle School
    • Cibola County/ Final Piece to Impact Aid Application Denied
    • Farmington/ High School to Get New Field House
    • ABQ/ UNM-CEPR Releases Report on Home Visiting Programs in NM
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ University of Wisconsin College Degree, No Class Time Required
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Why Gloomy Pundits and Politicians Are Wrong About America's Education System
  • 24 January 2013: PSFA News Digest   (1/24/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Alamogordo/ APS Seeks to Continuation of Mill Levy: Generates $1.6 Million Annually
    • Carlsbad/ Mill Levy Continuation Sought: Would Provide $3.3 Million for Schools
    • ABQ/ Superintendent Brooks' Contract Extended One Year
    • Farmington/ High School Teacher Stephanie Jaquez Helps Build Next General Assessment Test
    • Deming/ OPINION/ Testing: 1, 2, 3
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Model Common-Core Unit Piloted for ELL Teachers
    • Washington DC/ Charter Schools Prepare for Challenges of Common Core
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Texas House Bill Proposes Elimination of Funding for Standardized Testing
  • 23 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/23/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Gov. Martinez Proposes $2 Million Teacher Initiative Plan
    • ABQ/ APS Board Election: New West Side Seat, 2 Bond Projects
    • Clovis/ School Board Eyeing Possibility of $20 Million Bond Election
    • Tucumcari/ School District Hopes to Renew Property Tax in Special Election
    • Santa Fe/ Sen. Smith Pulling for Early Childhood Education
    • Magdalena/ School Issues Go to Santa Fe
    • Farmington/ CCSD Employees Demoted, Put on Leave Mid-Year
    • ABQ/ OPINION: APS Bond Will Improve Community
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/US Graduation Rate Highest Since 1976 [ABQ Journal]
    • Washington DC/ National High School Graduation Rate Tops 78 percent [CSMonitor.com]
    • Washington DC/ National High School Graduation Rate Climbs [Edweek.org]
    • Washington DC/ Districts Look to E-Rate Program to Help With Common Core Tech Costs
    • New York NY/ Public Universities to Offer Free Online Classes for Credit
    • New York NY/ Code.org Aims to Make Programming Cool
  • 22 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/22/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Community Forums on School Reform: Dual-Languages Popular Idea
    • Farmington/ High School Principals Discuss Adding 7th Period to School Day
    • Raton/ Schools, Virgin Galactic Eyeing 'Space' Partnership
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: More Breakfasts Great, Now Track Outcomes
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Charter Authorizers Play Crucial Roles
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ i3 Grant Provides STEM Graduation Path for Colorado Students
    • New York NY/ Pew Survey Finds Rising Reliance on Libraries as Gateway to Web
    • Albany NY/ Dream Act Would Provide Aid to Illegal Immigrants
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Top 10 Skills Children Learn from the Arts
    • Los Angeles CA/ OPINION: Many Hands Make Fractals Tactile
  • 19-21 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/21/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ School Board Approves $983,000 Purchase of South-Side Land for New K-8
    • Pojoaque/ Schools Seek Voters' Continuation of 2-Mill Levy
    • Farmington/ Tribal Colleges Look for Dual-Credit Program Funds
    • Socorro/ Socorro High School Students Welders in the Making
    • Santa Fe/ End to Golden Parachutes: One of Many School Reform Bills
    • ABQ/ New West Side Sports Stadium Might Be Ready by May
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Where Does Education Fit In at High School?
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: School Board Should Evaluate, Sit on Contract Until After Election
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: It's Never Too Late to Eat Breakfast
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Education of Adults Key to Reform Effort
    • Santa Fe/ LETTER: Focus on Early Education
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Healthy School Lunches Served Up Through Farm-To-School Program
    • New York NY/ Q&A with Lisa Nielsen: NYC Schools Hoping to Use Social Media in Classroom
    • New York NY/ EDITORIAL: The Teacher Evaluation Fight
    • Chicago IL/ COLUMN: Parents' Role Big Piece of Education Pie
  • 18 January 2013: PSFA News Digest   (1/18/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Raton/ Schools Receive Positive Audit; 3 Findings Being Addressed
    • ABQ/ One Big Day for One Young Author, Jamal Witter
    • ABQ/ APS Superintendent Brooks Undergoes Board Review
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Early Childhood Programs Work
    • Santa Fe/ LETTER: Volunteers for Boys and Girls Club Reading Program Needed
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Community Partnerships for the Digital Learning Revolution
    • New York NY/ Measuring the Success of Online Education
    • New York NY/ Reggio Emilia: From Postwar Italy to NYC's Toniest Preschools
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Inequality in American Education Will Not Be Solved Online
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Probing the Science of Value-Added Evaluation
  • 17 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/17/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Rep. Mimi Stewart: New Chair of House Education Committee
    • Santa Fe/ NM Top in US For Feeding Kids School Breakfasts
    • Santa Fe/ Wage Report Confirms Santa Fe Teachers' Salaries Below State, National Averages
    • Santa Fe/ Competitive Wage Committee: School Pay Raises Recommended
    • Deming/ OPINION: A Different Perspective on Diversity
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Schools' Design Can Play Important Role in Safety, Student Engagement
    • Washington DC/ Executive Summary: Schools Aim to Craft Environment for Learning
    • Washington DC/ Harvard, SurveyMonkey Offer New Tool to Weigh Parent Engagement
  • 16 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/16/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Kids Count Report Released at New Mexico Capitol
    • Taos/ School Board Examines Tax Election
    • Socorro/ Zimmerly Elementary School Looks to Improve
    • ABQ/ Annual Evaluation of School Superintendent Starts
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Dispatch from India, Looking Beyond Classrooms
    • Dixon/ LETTER: Fewer Corporate Breaks, More School Money
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ National High School Graduation Rate Moves Up
    • Boston MA/ How to Get High School Dropouts into 'Recovery'?
    • Washington DC/ Home and Community Involvement Can Play Key Part in School Success
    • New York NY/ Plucked From Back in the Pack, Unlikely Peer Leaders Step Up
    • Stanford CA/ Stanford Report: Disadvantaged Students in US Gaining on International Peers
    • Denver CO/ Several Colorado School Districts Push for Rigor in Science
    • Washington DC/ The Problem With the School of One: Danger of Over-Customizing Education
  • 15 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/15/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Grants/ Los Alamitos and Grants High School Share $200,000 Federal Award
    • Santa Fe/ Kids Count Report Will be Released at NM Capitol
    • ABQ/ APS Uses Surveillance Cams to Monitor Schools
    • Cimarron/ School Superintendent James Gallegos Plans to Retire in June
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Gallup: Student Engagement Drops With Each Grade
    • San Jose CA/ California to Give Udacity Web Courses a Big Trial
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Waving the Flag for Formative Assessment
  • 12-14 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/14/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ State Lawmakers to Consider Best Course for Struggling Elementary School Students
    • Taos/ UNM-Taos Kids' Campus Earns National Accreditation
    • Bloomfield/ James Olivas: Golden Apple Winner Brings Own Spin to Learning
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Education Issues at Forefront of Legislative Session
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Ensure Teacher Observation Implemented Correctly
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Why Schools Merit More Money
    • ABQ/ OPINION: We Need Crystal Ball for Education Reform
    • Clovis/ OPINION: Ms. Mae Gilbert Taught More Than English
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Social-Emotional Needs Entwined with Students' Learning, Security
    • New York NY/ Will Longer School Year Help or Hurt US Students?
    • Seattle WA/ Standardized Test Backlash: Some Teachers Just Say 'No'
    • New York NY/ Gifted, Talented and Separated
  • 11 January 2013: PSFA News Digest   (1/11/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Gov. Susana Martinez: Proposed Budget Seeks School Money
    • Santa Fe/ Governor's Education Spending Plan
    • Santa Fe/ Gov. Martinez Proposes $101 Million for Public Schools
    • Española/ PED Backs Off $945,125 Special Education Audit Claim Against School District
    • Deming/ Luna County Rejects Support of School District's 'Master Plan'
    • Santa Fe/ Students' Input on High School Reform: Keep 2 Campuses, Expand Programs
    • Grants/ Grants/Cibola County School District: Performing Arts Center Project to be Awarded
    • Estancia/ Board of Education Meeting: School Security, Handbook Top Topics
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Delayed PEC Do-Over Cheats System, Public
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Discipline Policies Shift With Views on What Works [NM mention]
    • Adelanto CA/ Board OKs Charter Takeover of California Public School After 'Parent Trigger'
    • New York NY/ StudentsFirstNY Report Links Poor Schools, Teachers
  • 10 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/10/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Bigger, Better Sweeney Elementary School Reopens After 18 Months of Construction
    • Deming/ Luna County Commissioners Poised in Support of School District
    • ABQ/ OPINION: APS Reform Are Efforts Working
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ States Show Spotty Progress Across Swath of Education Gauges
    • Charlotte NC/ School Project Blurs Line Between Public, Private Funding
    • Washington DC/ McKinley Technology High School Closes The Achievement Gap, Against All Odds
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Language Education We Can Use
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Without Teachers, the Classroom is Just a Room
  • 9 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/9/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Gov. Martinez Spells Out Education Plans
    • Rio Rancho/ School District Saves Water, Money
    • Las Cruces/ LCPS Students Troop Back to Class, Construction Continues in Many Schools
    • Santa Fe/ School District Schedules Public Forums on Proposed Secondary Education Reform Plan
    • ABQ/ CNM Community College President Kathie Winograd Calls for Education Reform
    • ABQ/ StudentsFirst: New Mexico Gets 'D' in New School Study
    • Tularosa/ School Board Discusses Safety Policies
    • Taos/ 2012 Newsmakers: Taos School Superintendent Rod Weston
    • ABQ/ OPINION: NM Must Set 2013 Education Goals [Margaret Spellings]
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Gates Foundation: Combined Measures Better at Gauging Teacher Effectiveness [Edweek]
    • New York NY/ Gates Foundation MET Report: Teacher Observation Less Reliable Than Test Scores [HuffPo]
    • New York NY/ Gates Foundation Study: Good Teachers Linked to Test Success [WSJ]
    • New York NY/ StudentsFirst Report: More States Using Student Data in Reform
    • Washington DC/ New Science-Standards Draft Includes Many Changes
    • Washington DC/ National-Board Professional Teaching Standards Certification Hits 100,000 Mark
  • 8 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/8/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Raton/ Solar Power Eyed for Schools, Plan Could Mean More Education Money
    • Deming/ PNM, MRAC Join to Provide Grant for Arts in the Classroom
    • ABQ/ National Board Certification in Teaching: High Standards
    • ABQ/ TEDxABQED: Education Innovation Includes Less Homework
    • ABQ/ UNM College of Education Launches iTunes U Collection of Research Matters Videos
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Bonds Help Without Tax-Rate Hike
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Portland OR/ K-12 Leaders Discuss Deteriorating Public Schools as Top Concern
    • Washington DC/ Language and Learning on the Border [Columbus NM]
    • San Diego CA/ Study Results: Inoculations Boost High School Graduation Rates
    • New York NY/ McGraw-Hill to Debut Adaptive E-Book for Students
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: 5 Key Questions about the Common Core Standards
  • 5-7 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/7/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ State Public Education Commission Will Re-Do Vote on 2 Charter School Renewals
    • Santa Fe/ SFHS Hopes for New Auditorium
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: APS Reform Delivers Weak Bottom Line
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Keep Improving Bid Process
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Nikhil Goyal - Savvy Teen Offers Recipe for Reform
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Let's Help New Mexicans Further Their Educations
    NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Sacramento CA/ School Facilities Improve Learning
    • Mountain View CA/ Students Rush to Web Classes, but Profits May Be Much Later
    • New York NY/ Ergonomic Seats? Most Pupils Squirm in a Classroom Classic
    • Chicago IL/ Comic Books in Education? Schools Embrace Graphic Novels as Learning Tool
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Should Feds Host Separate Competitions for Rural Schools?
  • 4 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/4/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ APS Amends Bid Process
    • Taos/ School Administrators' Lawsuit Dismissed with Prejudice
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ School Design, Classroom Layout Can Heavily Affect Student Grades, Learning
    • Washington DC/ Federal Effort Aims to Transform Learning Technologies
    • Newark NJ/ In New Jersey, Teachers' Union Fights Blended Learning
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Why are College Textbooks so Absurdly Expensive?
  • 3 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/3/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: Starting New School Presents Unique Challenges
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Detroit MI/ Compuware, United Way Aim to Better Early Child Literacy
    • New York NY/ Deferring Six Figures on Wall Street for Teacher's Salary
  • 2 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/2/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ NM to Receive $25 Million in Federal "Race to the Top" Education Funding
    • ABQ/ School Overhaul Results Mixed
    • ABQ/ OPINION: High-Stakes Testing Still Favors Whites
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ Educators Debate Academic Merits of Free Online Courses
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Consensus on Schools is Crucial
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Robbed
  • 1 January 2013: PSFA News Digest  (1/1/2013)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Clinical Rotations: APS Career Enrichment Center's Nursing Program
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Pediatrics Academy Speaks Out on 'Crucial Role' of Recess
  • 29-31 December 2012: PSFA News Digest  (12/31/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Española/ School Board Approves Master Facilities Plan
    • Española / Cariños Charter School Has Home Until 2016
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Workshops for Teachers, Voluntary Board-Candidate Financial Disclosure
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Adelante Homeless Student Program Needs Your Help
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New Delhi INDIA/ An Idea Promised the Sky, but India is Still Waiting
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Literature and Nonfiction: Common-Core Advocates Strike Back
  • 28 December 2012: PSFA News Digest  (12/28/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Grants/ Superintendent Search Update
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Early Reading Initiatives Deserve Support
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Denver CO/ Schools Seek Restorative Solution to Age-Old Truancy Problem
    • Washington DC/ CA Study Shows Kindness Boosts Student Popularity
  • 27 December 2012: PSFA News Digest  (12/27/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Farmington/ New Tibbetts Middle School Undergoes Indoor Construction During Winter
    • Rio Rancho/ RRPS Seeks to Avert Boundary Issue for Maggie Cordova Elementary Students
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Denver CO/ No-Quit Attitude Prevails at Mapleton Schools after Grant Money Missed
    • Washington DC/ The Great Montessori Schism
  • 25-26 December 2012: PSFA News Digest  (12/26/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Gallup/ Navajo Nation Suing Gallup Schools Over Redistricting
    • Carlsbad/ School District Officials Talk Success and Safety
    • Clovis/ Education Year in Review
    • ABQ/ Taylor Middle School Program: More than Music
    • Isleta Pueblo/ Strengthening Tewa Language Program Goal of New Governor
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Replication Reforms Education
  • 22-24 December 2012: PSFA News Digest  (12/24/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Chaparral/ Gadsden District Early College High School is 2nd in NM
    • Deming/ District Teachers Help Develop National Dual Language Standards
    • Rio Rancho/ Homework Happy Hour: Pizza, Soda and School, After Class
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Investing in Early Education Pays Off
    • Santa Fe/ LETTER: Take a Closer Look at Absences
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Educators Tout International Baccalaureate's Links to Common Core Standards
    • Washington DC/ Federal Report: Head Start Advantages Mostly Gone by 3rd Grade
    • New York NY/ 2 Head Start Reports Find Problems and Some Hope
    • New York NY/ Wondering How to Create a Great Tablet App for Kids? Ask Bert and Ernie
  • 21 December 2012: PSFA News Digest  (12/21/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Dulce & Mesa Vista/ Both School Districts Look for Bond Mill-Levy Help in 5 February Elections
    • Deming/ La Cosecha: Teachers Contribute to Dual Language Conference
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Accountability, Results Justify School Spending
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Data, Evidence and Digital Learning
    • Washington DC/ Wisconsin Study: Promise Pell Aid in 8th Grade
    • Washington DC/ Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg Donates $500 Million for Education and Health
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Bringing Technology to the Classroom
  • 20 December 2012: PSFA News Digest  (12/20/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Truancy: Report on NM Schools Shows Troubling Trends
    • Moriarty/ New Honors Diploma Program for Moriarty High School
    • Socorro/ Superintendent Earwood Checks School District Safety Concerns
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: Education Foundation Continues to Grow
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Forget Political Rhetoric and Improve Schools
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Advice, Caution from Early Adopters of New Teacher Evaluations
    • Washington DC/ US State Department Unveils Online Game, Web Site to Teach English
  • 19 December 2012: PSFA News Digest   (12/19/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ PED Seeks 6% Increase in Education Spending
    • Santa Fe/ UNM-CEPR Truancy Presentation to the Legislative Education Study Committee
    • Santa Fe/ State Studies Problem of Habitual Truancy in Public Schools
    • Deming/ Language Programs Not Just for Spanish Speakers
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Lay Out Options To Cut NM's Teen Pregnancies
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Security Steps Said to Avert More Deaths at Connecticut School
    • New York NY/ Arts as Antidote for Academic Ills
  • 18 December 2012: PSFA News Digest  (12/18/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Gov. Susana Martinez: Extra $4.75 Million Proposed for Public Education Department
    • Santa Fe/ NM Secretary of Education-Designate Skandera Asks LESC to Back Increased Education Funding
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS, City & County Response to Connecticut Shooting
    • Alamogordo/ Amid Sadness and Anger, a Closer Look at Alamogordo Schools
    • Deming/ Schools, Police React to Connecticut Shooting
    • ABQ/ APD Trains Hope Christian Staff to Fight Back Against Gunmen
    • Farmington/ City-Halliburton Energy Services Bond Issue May Have Cost Schools
    • Questa/ PED Decision: School Board Suspension to Continue
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Resources for Schools to Prepare for and Recover from Crisis
    • Washington DC/ Newtown Massacre Leads to Security Assessments Nationwide
    • Washington DC/ State Chiefs to Examine Teacher Prep, Licensing
  • 15-17 December 2012: PSFA News Digest  (12/17/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ APS Site Safety Plans in Place for Every School in the District
    • ABQ/ UNM-CEPR Presentation to PIPER Committee
    • ABQ/ NM Still Battling Teen Pregnancy
    • ABQ/ Half of Teen Moms Don't Earn Diploma
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Glenis Redmond Opens Door to Poetry in Schools
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Licenses For Young Illegal Immigrants?
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ Nation Heads Back to School With New Worries About Safety
    • Washington DC/ Schools in Newtown Closed; Elsewhere Security Reviewed, Ramped Up
    • New York NY/ Tips for Talking to Children About the Shooting
    • New York NY/ Having a Life Before Creating One
    • New York NY/ For Mothers at Risk, Someone to Lean On
    • Washington DC/ NAEP Seeks to Test New Measure of Student Poverty
    • New York NY/ Apps Give Preschoolers a First Look at TV Shows
    • New York NY/ COLUMN: How Not to Talk With Children About the Sandy Hook Shooting
    • Chicago IL/ COLUMN: Ethnic Stereotypes Don't Aid Literacy
  • 14 December 2012: PSFA News Digest   (12/14/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Mixed Messages on Continuing Waiver on School Class-Size Cap
    • ABQ/ Native American Head Start Program Receives $820,000 Federal Funding
    • Raton/ School Board Seeks Training to Resolve Problems; Proposed Staff Policies Draw Teacher Concerns
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Why Education Reform Must Continue Forward
    • Santa Fe/ LETTER: Professional Development for Teachers Doesn't Have to Require Absences
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Federal Attention on ELL Needs Seen to Wane
    • Washington DC/ NAEP: School Absences Translate to Lower Test Scores
    • Washington DC/ Policies Proposed, Change Demanded to End 'School-to-Prison Pipeline'
    • New York NY/ COLUMN: In Ignorance We Trust
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Educational Apps Alone Won't Teach Your Kid to Read
  • 13 December 2012: PSFA News Digest  (12/13/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Rio Rancho/ Common Core Money Top Wish
    • Clovis/ School Board Approves Sale of $5 Million 2010 Bonds
    • Santa Fe/ State High School Test Scores Improve
    • ABQ/ 2 UNM CEPR Presentations: College Access Inventory and Education in Doña Ana County
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Computer Outlays Must Have Students at Core
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ In Rural Areas, After-School Efforts Must Stretch to Provide Services
    • Washington DC/ Common Core School Standards Have States, Teachers on Edge
    • Washington DC/ Mind Research Network & UNM Study: Concussions Alter Children's Brains for Months
    • Washington DC/ ESSAY: No Teachers, No Class, No Homework. Would You Send Your Kids Here?
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Confusing Achievement with Aptitude
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: A State of Emergency for American Indian and Native Students
  • 12 December 2012: PSFA News Digest   (12/12/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ School Consortium Misses Cut for Race to the Top Money
    • Tularosa/ School Board Talks Training, Math Programs
    • Bloomfield/ School Audit Shows Irregularities
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: 2 School Board Vacancies Offer Opportunity
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Arne Duncan: How Do US Students Compare with Peers Around the World?
    • Boston MA/ Giving Teachers More Power Helps in Schools' Turnaround
    • Baton Rouge LA/ 'Diplomas Now' Data-Based Model Turns Around Failing Broadmoor Middle School
    • Berkeley CA/ Undocumented Student Scholarships: UC Berkeley Sets $1 Million Fund to Help Dreamers
    • Yucaipa CA/ Students Learn Cell Phone App Programming
  • 11 December 2012: PSFA News Digest  (12/11/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ New Del Norte High School Building Worthy of Recognition
    • ABQ/ Historic Building Renovated for Native American Community Academy
    • Taos/ Questa School Board Suspension Hearing Concludes
    • Taos/ PED Hearing Held on Questa School Board Suspension
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Teacher-Absences Study Raises Questions
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: International Baccalaureate Diploma Program May Be Here in 2013
    • Santa Fe/ OBITUARY: Santa Fe Teacher Dorothy "Dottie" Mullins
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ TIMSS Results: US Math, Science Achievement Exceeds World Average
    • Washington DC/ PIRLS Results: American 4th Graders Among Top Readers in Global Study
    • New York NY/ US Students Still Lag Globally in Math and Science
    • New York NY/ International Competitors Still Beat US Students in Tests
    • Washington DC/ How Does Your Child's School Rank Against the Rest of the World?
    • Washington DC/ Common Core Nonfiction Reading Standards
  • Copy of 8-10 December 2012: PSFA News Digest  (12/10/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ NM Near Bottom in NAEP Vocabulary Scores
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Analysis of Absent Teacher Statistics: 'Big Gap' Among Schools
    • Santa Fe/ Teachers Out 12 Days Per Year
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Keep Teacher Evaluation Reform on Smart Track
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Literature Deserves Its Place in Classroom
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Brooklyn Castle - Chess and Success in the Inner City
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Big Returns on Early Education Investments
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Logical Ways to Improve Funding for SFPS

    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEW
    • Manchester NH/ Strapped District Plans to Add Online Classes
    • Waterbury CT/ Cognitive Labs: Test Designers Seek Help of Students, One at a Time
    • Highlands Ranch CO/ Highlands Ranch High School Alt-Ed Program Named State's Best
    • New York NY/ Charter Schools Expanding Rapidly in More US Cities
    • New York NY/ Poor Schools Struggling to Meet State Standards, Years After Critical Ruling
    • Jackson KY/ COLUMN: Profiting From a Child's Illiteracy
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: The Half-Day Kindergarten/Common-Core Mismatch
  • 7 December 2012: PSFA News Digest  (12/7/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ NM Receives $25 Million in "Race to the Top" for Early Learning
    • Farmington/ NM Awarded $25 Million in Education Grant
    • ABQ/ New Tests to Cost APS $39 Million
    • Carlsbad/ State Audit of Pate Elementary School Focuses on Improvement
    • Taos/ School Board Boundaries Shift Prior to Candidate Filing
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Federal Commitment to Tribal Collaboration on Education
    • Washington DC/ 7 Districts Split $25 Million from Gates Foundation for Charter Schools
    • Washington DC/ Vocabulary 'Report Card': 'Urbane' Stumps 8th-Graders, 'Grimace' Doesn't
    • Washington DC/ NAEP Data on Vocabulary Achievement Show Same Gaps
    • Denver CO/ New NAEP Results Explore Link between Vocabulary, Reading Skill
    • New York NY/ Students Fall Flat in Vocabulary Test
    • Tacoma WA/ Economic Reality Marries Age-Old idea - Apprenticeships - with College
    • Washington DC/ Startups Target Teachers as 'Consumerization' of Education Emerges
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Teach to Each Child's Intelligence
  • 6 December 2012: PSFA News Digest  (12/6/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ 2-Language School Draws Interest, Santa Fe Board Hears Ideas for HS Reform
    • Santa Fe/ NM Teacher Colleges Not Good Enough
    • ABQ/ ABQ Progress Report: APS' Grim Statistics
    • Clovis/ Mentoring Program in 15th Year, Elementary School Needs More Volunteers
    • ABQ/ Running Program Helps Sierra Vista Elementary School Students Get, Stay Fit
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Secretary Duncan Sketches Out 'Long Haul' Agenda
    • Washington DC/ Was 'Brown v. Board' a Failure?
    • Washington DC/ Carnegie Unit May Yield to Better Course-Credit Measure
    • Washington DC/ Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Updates Common-Core Tech Requirements
  • 5 December 2012: PSFA News Digest   (12/5/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Socorro/ County Looks at Acquiring Old San Antonio School Building
    • Santa Fe/ Superintendent Joel Boyd Unveils 4 Options for High School Reform
    • Las Cruces/ LCPS Plans Health-Focused Early College High School
    • Taos/ 2 Taos Elementary Schools Initiate Recycling Projects
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Training Programs Connect Principals to District Realities
    • Philadelphia PA/ For Young Latino Readers, an Image is Missing
    • New York NY/ Gates Foundation Awards $25 Million in Grants to Back Public-Charter Cooperation
    • Washington DC/ Access to AP Courses in STEM to Grow With $5 Million Google Gift
    • Washington DC/ Google Gives $23 Million To Charities To Spur Innovation, Help Girls And Minority Students
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: List of What Common Core Authors Suggest High School Students Should Read
    • Wellesley MA/ OPINION: WellesleyX, a Grand Experiment in Online Education
  • 4 December 2012: PSFA News Digest  (12/4/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Nearly $500 Million Available for Capital Projects in NM
    • Santa Fe/ Slowing Down Urged for New Reviews of Teachers
    • ABQ/ Discovery Education: Parents Introduced to Web-Based Resources
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Reforming Secondary Schools
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: NM Small School Districts Show How It's Done
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ School Districts in 5 States Will Lengthen Their Calendars
    • Washington DC/ Longer School Day? How 5 States Are Trying to Change Education
    • Denver CO/ Expanded Learning Offers More Hours, but Not More of the Same
    • Rochester NY/ 4,000 Students Taking Part in Class Time Expansion
    • Washington DC/ US Court Upholds $1 Million for Latino Student Harassed in NY High School
    • Washington DC/ Common Core Sparks War Over Words
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Common Core vs. Common Sense
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Why Be Afraid of Ethnic Studies Programs?
  • 1-3 December 2012: PSFA News Digest  (12/3/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Las Cruces/ US Department of Education: NM Graduation Rate 1 of Nation's Lowest
    • ABQ/ Teacher Theresa Sandoval Brings Agriculture to Kindergarten Class
    • Taos/ Tierra Lucero Raising Funds for School Greenhouses
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: A Welcome Taste of Teaching
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Child's Reading Raises New Horizons
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Hats Off to New Mexico School for the Arts Cindy Principal Montoya
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ New Graduation Data Shows Lower Rates, Wide Achievement Gap
    • Washington DC/ Elementary Pupils Nationwide Immersed in Foreign Language
    • Washington DC/ Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Scales Back Test Performance Items
    • Longmont CO/ St. Vrain School Students Benefit from All-Day Preschool, Kindergarten
    • Washington DC/ Schools Ring Closing Bell
    • Baton Rouge LA/ State Judge Blocks Gov. Bobby Jindal's Signature School Voucher Program
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Speaking Up for and Demanding Full-Day Kindergarten
  • 30 November 2012: PSFA News Digest  (11/30/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Española / Mill-Levy on Ballot (Again) Next February
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: NCAA's Online Rule Backs Student Athletes
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Education Secretary Sharpens 2nd-Term Agenda, Stresses Teacher Quality
    • Newark NJ/ Newark Global Village School Zone: School Turnaround Strategy Changes Course
    • Los Angeles CA/ / No Consensus on Which Skills Should Be Included in Teacher Evaluations
    • New York NY/ Not Just 4 Texting: 1 in 3 Middle-Schoolers Uses Smart Phones for Homework
    • Washington DC/ Online Charter Schools Spent Millions of Taxpayer Dollars on Advertising to Recruit New Students
    • Denver CO/ Board OKs Charter School on North High School Campus Despite Protests
  • 29 November 2012: PSFA News Digest   (11/29/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Rio Rancho/ RRPS Looks to Conserve Water
    • ABQ/ New America School: Student Danny Lueras Speaks at Groundbreaking
    • Clovis/ On Fast Track: Dual Credit Courses Give Students College Experience
    • ABQ/ School Boards Prepare for State Convention
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: Schools Open Doors to Parents After Hours
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Report on Civil Rights Enforcement and Educational Equity Released
    • Washington DC/ Brookings Study: Standardized Testing Costs States $1.7 Billion Annually
    • Washington DC/ New Literacy Research Infuses Common Core
    • Washington DC/ SAT, ACT No Longer Required for Admission to 800 US Colleges & Universities
    • New York NY/ A Lie on Facebook Has Consequences for Children
    • New York NY/ With 'Social Reading,' Books Become Places to Meet
  • 28 November 2012: PSFA News Digest  (11/28/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ NM Districts Finalists for Federal Race to the Top Funds
    • Las Cruces/ Spaceport America Tax Pays $1.9 Million to Local Schools
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Our No. 1 Concern Must Be Education
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: School Re-Formed
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ 61 Applications as Finalists for $400 Million Race to the Top's School District Competition
    • New York NY/ Finalists Announced in District-level Race to the Top Competition
    • Washington DC/ New Graduation Rate Data Show Large Achievement Gaps
    • Washington DC/ Which State Does Best Job of Graduating Students from High School?
    • Oklahoma City OK/ A+ Schools Infuse Arts and Other 'Essentials'
  • 27 November 2012: PSFA News Digest   (11/27/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ NM Land Office Earns $3.85 Million in November Lease Sale
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS State of the Schools Address Notes Progress and Work to be Done
    • Santa Fe/ Superintendent Joel Boyd's State of the Schools Address: School District To See Changes
    • Las Cruces/ Doña Ana County to Hear about Schools Spending Share of Spaceport Tax
    • ABQ/ Citizen Schools Program Teaches Skills for 21st Century
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Gov. Susana Martinez Shows Support for Charter Schools
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Separate Standards Mean Lower Expectations
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ States Report New High School Graduation Rates Using More Accurate, Common Measure
    • Washington DC/ Retooled Textbooks Aim to Capture Common Core
    • Washington DC/ Resisting 'Downward Pressure' of Common Core in Early Education
    • Washington DC/ Native-Student Group Pushes Federal Policy Recommendations
    • Los Angeles CA/ LAUSD English Learners to Move Faster into Mainstream Classes
    • Washington DC/ Colleges Agree to Recruit KIPP Alumni
  • 24-26 November 2012: PSFA News Digest  (11/26/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Surfeit of Talent Hampers ABQ Aviation Industry
    • ABQ/ Rachel Kolb: Rhodes Scholar
    • Taos/ Appeals Court Affirms PED Decision, Ex-Taos Teacher Chad Skowronski to Lose License
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Education Reform Can't Be All or Nothing
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: APS Title IX/Booster Policy Exceeds Sensibility
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Hooked on Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee, School Board Seats Open
    • ABQ/ OPINION: 3-Tiered Teacher System Never Tied to Students
    • Santa Fe NM/ LETTER: Remembering Our Teachers: Thanks to All
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ In the Book Bag, More Garden Tools
    • Miami FL/ Teen Pregnancy Study: Students Need Better School Support
    • McComb MS/ Solutions Follow Funding Eetbacks for Early Childhood Education
    • New York NY/ OPINION: What Should Children Read?
    • New York NY/ OPINION: At Work, Practice Puts Perfection in Reach
    • Essex NY/ OPINION: Getting Poor Students to College is about Access
  • 23 November 2012: PSFA News Digest  (11/23/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Las Cruces/ Different Schools of Thought: Charter School Enrollment Rising in Region
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Teacher Raises Earlier in Career Correlates to Better Student Performance
    • Washington DC/ Early Math Teachers Celebrate 'Critical Thinking, Not Correct Answers'
    • Los Angeles CA/ Inexperienced Teachers More Likely to Be Assigned to Students Behind in Math
    • Columbus OH/ Pete Kaser, Preschool Teacher, Replaces Toys with Cardboard Boxes
    • Washington DC/ FILM REVIEW of Children in Poverty: 'To Us, It's Just How We Live'
  • 22 November 2012: PSFA News Digest  (11/22/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ APS Seeks $200 Million Bond Approval on February 5
    • ABQ/ Title IX: School Board Changes Booster Club Financial Reporting Flow
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Kudos to Governor for Supporting Charter Schools
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Fayetteville NC/ Special Needs Students Benefit from Synched Classrooms
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Addressing Bullying with School-Wide Solutions
  • 21 November 2012: PSFA News Digest  (11/21/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Maternity Leave for High School Students?
    • ABQ/ ACLU Proposes Teen Maternity Leave in New Mexico
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS School Board Seeks Consistent Calendar
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Student Interest Should Be the Common Core
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: All-Online K-12 Needed in NM
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Literacy Instruction Expected to Cross Disciplines
    • Washington DC/ Experts Say Accountability Focus Stymies Assessment Research
    • Los Angeles CA/ Empower Academy: 1st School in KIPP Network to Embrace Blended Learning
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Should Schools Set Sliding Scales for Student Achievement?
  • 20 November 2012: PSFA News Digest  (11/20/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Estancia/ School Board Puts $4.1 Million Bond on February Ballot
    • ABQ/ APS Looks at Health Benefits
    • Las Cruces/ The Bridge: Resigning Leader Tracey Bryan Built Legacy of Education Partnerships
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Price Should Matter When the Public Pays
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ US Department of Education Releases Early Snapshot of School Improvement Grants Data
    • Washington DC/ US Department of Education Analysis Paints Mixed Picture of SIG Program
    • New York NY/ College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: What Happened to Magnet Schools?
  • 17-19 November 2012: PSFA News Digest  (11/19/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Las Cruces/ NMSU's STEM Outreach Center: $4.78 Million Grant Helps Students Reach for the Stars
    • Socorro/ Automotive Technology Program: Dual Enrollment High School Students Shifting Gears
    • ABQ/ School Board: Charter School Objectivity Questioned
    • ABQ/ $11 Million APS Discovery Education Contract Approved Unanimously Despite Controversy
    • ABQ/ New Frontier for Scaling Up Online Classes: Course Credit
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Las Cruces Educator Pamela Cort - State's Top Teacher is Santa Fe Native
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Savannah GA/ U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Sketches Out 2nd-Term Agenda
    • Washington DC/ Education Technology, Digital Learning Not As Easy As It Seems
    • Washington DC/ Writing Undergoing Renaissance in Curricula
    • New York NY/ Private School Goes All In With Tech
  • 16 November 2012: PSFA News Digest  (11/16/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Teacher Pay Plan Failed to Hike Scores
    • Santa Fe/ Lawmakers, Education Officials Question School Grading Policy
    • Silver City/ Students From Several Decades Celebrate 6th Street Elementary Schools' 130th Birthday
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Austin TX/ In Financing of Schools, Defining 'Adequate'
    • Washington DC/ Scale Tips Toward Nonfiction Under Common Core
    • Washington DC/ Report Emphasizes Creating Culture of Better Data Use in Schools
    • Denver CO/ DPS, ELL Plaintiffs Now Speak Same Language on Modified Consent Decree
    • New York NY/ New Online Venture Promises Small Classes and College Credit
    • New York NY/ University Consortium to Offer Small Online Courses for Credit
  • 15 November 2012: PSFA News Digest  (11/15/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ State Sen. Howie Morales: A-F School Grades Still a Puzzle
    • Taos/ 3 Taos Schools Lose Free Lunches
    • ABQ/ Ray Nance: NM Coalition of Charter Schools 2012 Teacher of the Year
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Charters' District Enrollment Shares Rising
    • Washington DC/ 'Soft Skills' Seen As Key Element for Higher Education
    • Denver CO/ Peter Senge: Educators, Businesses Must Partner to Create Innovation in Schools
    • Washington DC/ Q&A with Rob Zdrojewski: Students Teaching Their Teachers How to Use Technology
  • 14 November 2012: PSFA News Digest  (11/14/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Farmington/ FMS Maintenance Department Wins Ben Luján Gold Award
    • ABQ/ Charter School Online Class Credit to be Limited
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: State Fund Turnaround, a State Investment Council Success Story
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Common Standards Drive New Approaches to Reading
    • Halifax County VA/ Rural District Nurtures Dual-Enrollment Effort
    • New York NY/ College Credit Eyed for Online Courses
    • Detroit MI/ 826Michigan Expands to Detroit With $100,000 Grant for Tutoring and Writing Programs
    • New York NY/ Enrollment in Charter Schools Increasing
  • 13 November 2012: PSFA News Digest   (11/13/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Silver City/ Sixth Street Elementary School to Celebrate 130th Birthday
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: APS Boss Gives Thanks
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: 3rd-Graders Will be Talk of 2013 Legislature
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Tucson AZ/ Ethnic Studies Could Return in Proposed Desegregation Plan
    • Washington DC/ ELL-Focused Projects are Big Winners in i3 Competition
    • Washington DC/ Maryland College Presidents Praise Dream Act Victory
    • St. Petersburg FL/ Teacher Rob Tarrou's YouTube Video Math Lessons: Global Access for Students
  • 10-12 November 2012: PSFA News Digest  (11/12/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Date Set For SFPS $130 Million Capital Improvements Bond Election
    • Bernalillo/ School District Administrative Offices and Departments Get New Digs
    • Santa Fe/ SF Federation of School Employees Rejects 6% Pay Hike
    • ABQ/ Atrisco Heritage Academy High School: Tech Wins in English Class
    • ABQ/ ASK Academy Charter School Adds Many APS Pupils
    • ABQ/ Abriendo Puertas: Parents Learn to Prepare Their Kids for Life
    • Española/ Cariños Charter School Asked to Move Making Way for Fairview Elementary Occupancy
    • ABQ/ Education items: Skandera Favorite for FL Post; EAs Speak Out; APS' Legislative Agenda
    • Santa Fe/ Farmers Seek State Funds to Put More Local Produce in Schools
    • Questa/ Questa Independent School Board Hearing Postponed
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Union Wrong To Reject Pay Raise
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Dollars4Schools.org - 150 School Programs Funded and Counting
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Bullying in Any Form Cannot Be Tolerated
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Tie a Big Blue Ribbon on America's Great Schools
    • Washington DC/ School and City Officials Address Truancy Rates in District
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Physical Activity and Digital Learning: Two Peas in a Pod
  • 9 November 2012: PSFA News Digest   (11/9/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ NM Permanent Funds Grow $4 Billion in Past Year
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Superintendent Boyd takes Teachers' Questions at Staff Forum
    • ABQ/ New APS Community Stadium Coming
    • Moriarty/ Moriarty-Edgewood School District Earns $58,000 PED Award for Growth
    • Española/ School Officials Edge Closer to Furloughs
    • Chimayó/ Elementary School Parents Organize for Change
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: APS, Give the Public the Information It Deserves
    • ABQ/ UNM CEPR Report: Our Future, Our Challenge, Our Call to Action
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Educare Preschools Aim to Close Academic Gaps
    • Washington DC/ Research Traces Impacts of Childhood Adversity
    • San Antonio TX/ Mayor Julian Castro: Pre-K 4 SA Passage Shows Belief in Education, Opportunity for Future Prosperity
    • Washington DC/ Teach For America Launches Recruitment Initiative for Veterans
    • Vershire VT/ A School Distanced from Technology Faces Its Intrusion
  • 8 November 2012: PSFA News Digest   (11/8/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Public Forums Set For SFPS Input
    • Santa Fe/ Absentee Report, Pay Discussion Test Tempers at Santa Fe School Board Meeting
    • Texico/ Texico High School's ProStart Culinary Program Offers Career Basics
    • Socorro/ Anti-Bullying Policy: Bullies in Schools Face Reality
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Digital Technology: Schools Using Social Networking to Involve Parents
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: 5 Issues Facing Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in 2nd Term
  • 7 November 2012: PSFA News Digest  (11/7/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • No NM education-related stories today.
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Graduation Rates Latest NCLB Waiver Flash Point
    • Washington DC/ Revise Teacher-Absence Policies: Improve Student Achievement, Save School Districts Money
    • New York NY/ Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education (CCCIE) Report: Dreaming Big
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: MOOCs and Entrepreneurial Professors
  • 6 November 2012: PSFA News Digest   (11/6/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Common Core: New Set of K-3 Targets
    • Raton/ Training Exercise Part of Ensuring Student Safety on RHS's Open Campus
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ Pew Research Center: Record Number Complete High School and College
    • Washington DC/ MOOCs: Elite Education for the Masses
    • London UK/ Everyone Wants a Slice of Raspberry Pi
    • Chicago IL/ OPINION: Improving Education a Common Challenge-Not a Tug of War
    • New York NY/ OPINION: The Gift of Language
    • East Lansing MI/ OPINION: The Common Core State Standards in Mathematics
  • 3-5 November 2012: PSFA News Digest   (11/5/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Gov. Susana Martinez: Charter Schools are 'Pioneers' in Reform
    • Santa Fe/ Teachers Dispute Accuracy of Report on Absences
    • Santa Fe/ Absenteeism Report Stuns SFPS District Officials
    • Santa Fe/ Bernice García Baca, Teacher Union Head Lashes Out
    • ABQ/ New APS Sports Stadium Halfway Completed
    • Rio Rancho/ $32,000 PED Grant to RRPS: 'Science ... Rocks!'
    • Santa Fe/ Questa Suspended School Boards' Case Delayed, PED Hearing Now Set for Dec. 10
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Santa Fe Schools Take on 'Mañana' Today
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Culture of Mañana? We Don't Think So
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: SFPS District to Kick Off Parent Academy
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Superintendent's Report Overstates Teacher Absences
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Report: Scrap One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Teaching ELLs
    • Denver CO/Metro School Districts Get into Race for Federal Grants
    • Somerset NJ/ Hurricane Sandy Gas Station Crisis Solution from High School Students
    • New York NY/ The Year of the MOOC
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: String Figures and Early Higher Cognitive Learning
  • 2 November 2012: PSFA News Digest  (11/2/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Moriarty/ School District's Enrollment Declines 9 Percent
    • Española/ School District Budget $400,000 Short, Furloughs Eyed
    • Farmington/ New CCSD District Map to Offset Kirtland Growth
    • Española/ Doctor Strikes Clinic Deal with La Tierra Montessori Elementary School
    • Santa Fe/ Estancia Valley Classical Academy Charter School Receives PED Warning
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Scores Drop on Kentucky's Common Core-Aligned Tests
    • Philadelphia PA/ District Suspends School Rating System, Seeks Fix
  • 1 November 2012: PSFA News Digest  (11/1/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Panel: Santa Fe Public Schools Lacks Sense of Urgency
    • Socorro / GRADS Program Advances Teen Parents to Graduate
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New Orleans LA/ Attention Shifts to Blended Learning at Virtual Education Conference
    • Stonewall LA/ TAP: Career-Ladder Program Centers on Teaching Rubric, Targeted Support
    • Denver CO/ 5 Failing Schools to Lose School Improvement Grants
    • Freeport ME/ Maine's Decade-Old School Laptop Program Wins Qualified Praise
    • New York NY/ 2 Teacher Surveys: Technology Changing How Students Learn
    • New York NY/ The Brain Trainers
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Are Computers Alone Enough to Educate Children?
  • 31 October 2012: PSFA News Digest  (10/31/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ APS Breaks Ground on New Facilities for South Valley Academy Charter School
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Hooked on Books Sets an Example
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Milwaukee WI/ School Report Cards Give Milwaukee Schools Look at Student Growth
    • Denver CO/ Absence Notification Only Part of Complex School Info Systems
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Bubbles on the Brain
  • 30 October 2012: PSFA News Digest  (10/30/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Clovis/ W.D. Gattis Middle School & Lockwood Elementary School: New Construction on Schedule
    • Grants/ Mesa View Elementary School Receives $25,000 PED Bonus for Improvement
    • Santa Fe/ Santa Fe School for the Arts & Sciences: Bookshelves Lead to Nobel Winner
    • ABQ/ More Teacher Collaboration Benefiting Students
    • Santa Fe/ Superintendent Boyd Calls Teacher Absences 'Startling'
    • Grants/ School Staff Strive for 'Black Belt' Certification
    • Springer/ Reactivating Agriculture Education: High school Reviving Vo-Ag, FFA Program
    • Farmington/ Johnny Depp Gives $25,000 to Navajo Nation for Scholarships
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: APS Tone Deaf About Benefits for Top Brass
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • San Francisco CA/ San Francisco Flex Academy: Flexibility, Support Build Student Independence
  • 27-28 October 2012: PSFA News Digest   (10/29/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Montessori Charter School Breaks Ground
    • ABQ/ National Conference Focuses on Homeless Children
    • Socorro/ Professional Development Plan is New in Code of Ethics
    • ABQ/ Controversy Remains over APS Westside Stadium
    • ABQ/ APS Releases Bullying Statistics
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Learning to Write - A Welcome Reform
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Bullying-Prevention Effort Aims to 'End the Hate'
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ All Eligible States Apply for 2nd Round of Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge
    • Washington DC/ The Writing Revolution
    • Washington DC/ Adaptive Testing Evolves to Assess Common-Core Skills
    • New York NY/ Engaging Children With the Siren Call of the App
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Cures for Bad Teaching of Writing
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Teaching Lessons
  • 26 October 2012: PSFA News Digest  (10/26/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Santa Fe Community Foundation: Panel Discusses How Poverty and Education Connect
    • ABQ/ Contract Gives APS Superintendent Winston Brooks $23,000 Pension Bump
    • Farmington/ Municipal Schools Consider Proposed Bilingual Recognition Program
    • Grants/ Grants-Cibola County Schools: No Bullies in the Classroom
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Charleston SC/ Haut Gap Middle School: Basic Behavior
    • Washington DC/ Caution Urged in Using 'Value Added' Evaluations
    • New York NY/ Eric Eisner: Unlikely Education Reformer Named Innovator of the Year 2012
    • Washington DC/ INTERVIEW: Jonathan Kozol on Keeping Faith with the Kids
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Middle School-The Worst Years of Our Lives
  • 25 October 2012: PSFA News Digest   (10/25/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    [no articles posted state-wide today]

    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ OIG Audit: US Oversight of Charter School Funds Lax
    • Miami FL/ College Board Puts Spotlight on Needs of ELLs, New Kinds of Tests
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Crippling Consequences of a Disappearing Preschool Data Source
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Gamification in the Scientific Process
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Different Kind of String Theory
  • 24 October 2012: PSFA News Digest  (10/24/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ NM Educational Pension Fund Assets Reach Nearly $10 Billion
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS, School for the Deaf Consider Land Deal for New South-Side Elementary
    • Raton/ 88 Schools Earn Cash for Good Grades in State Rating System
    • Quay County/ 2 "Top Growth" Middle Schools Awarded PED Grant Money
    • Taos/ School Board Hears about Gains, Opportunities from Taos Pueblo Leaders
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: 3rd Annual School Choice Fair-Opportunity to Compare Public Charter School Programs
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ E-Learning Opens Real-World Doors
    • Miami FL/ Miami-Dade District Wins Broad Prize for Urban Education
    • Miami FL/ Why Miami-Dade Schools Won Prestigious Broad Prize for Urban Districts
    • Washington DC/ Translating the Common Core for Dual-Language Classrooms
    • Oakland CA/ In Search of High-Quality Teachers, Charter Network Trains Its Own
    • Washington DC/ Millennials: Rising Generation of Booklovers
    • New York NY/ "Be More Than a Bystander" Campaign Tries to Help Defuse Bullying
  • 23 October 2012: PSFA News Digest   (10/23/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Manzano Mesa Elementary School's Homework Diner: Learning on the Menu
    • Grants/ Grants High School Garners "2012 College Readiness Award" for Academic Achievement
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Betsy Tapia, Teacher Who Made a Difference
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Competency-Based Schools Embrace Digital Learning
    • Denver CO/ Boulder Valley to Use New Model to Teach Teachers about Technology
    • Austin TX/ Texas Schools Head to Trial over School Finance, Claim System is Unconstitutional
    • Washington DC/ INTERVIEW: 'How Children Succeed' - Q&A with Paul Tough
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Personalized Learning on the March
  • 20-22 October 2012: PSFA News Digest  (10/22/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ The A-Z of School Grades: State Official Works to Decipher New A-F System
    • Las Cruces/ NMSU Researcher Alfred Valdez Studies Computer-Based Feedback in Education
    • Taos/ $14,200 National Park Foundation Grant Helps Taos County Students Connect to Old Spanish Trail
    • ABQ/ APS Fitness Program Earns Rave Reviews
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Some Troubles Haunt Schools for Decades
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Testing Madness Hurts Teachers, Too
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Test Scores No Panacea for Teacher Evaluations
    • ABQ/ LETTER: Incredible Kids Day Huge Success
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Denver CO/ Mandarin Chinese Becoming First Choice as Second Language
    • Brooklyn NY/ At Technology High School, Goal Isn't to Finish in 4 Years
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Ex-Marine Turned Teacher: 'Stop Demonizing Me and My Profession'
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Considering Cursive in a Digital World
  • 19 October 2012: PSFA News Digest  (10/19/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ State Teacher of the Year: Las Cruces High School's Pamela Cort
    • ABQ/ APS Seeking Race to the Top Grant with Possible $40 Million Funding
    • ABQ/ APS Sends 18 To National Conference of Council of Great City Schools
    • ABQ/ Pay Hikes For 3 Associate Superintendents
    • Grants/ Mt. Taylor Elementary School Commemorates Space History
    • Taos/ PED Documents Detail Issues Involving Questa School Board
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Baltimore MD/ 'Restorative Practices' Offer Alternatives to Suspension
    • Washington DC/ IES to Start 'Continuous Improvement' Study Program
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: A New Approach to Difficult Middle School Years
  • 18 October 2012: PSFA News Digest  (10/18/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Santa Fe Community College: Green Construction Training to At-Risk High School Students
    • Clovis/ Top Growth School: Sandia Elementary Awarded $25,747 PED Grant
    • Deming/ Agriscience Teacher Susan Swope Sends FFA Students to Nationals for 4th Year
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Miami FL/ Florida Officials Defend Racial and Ethnic Learning Goals
    • Vancouver BC/ Open Education Resources Encourage Teachers to Tinker
    • Boston MA/ Dual Enrollment Linked with Significant College Advantage
    • Denver CO/ Cash Incentives for Colorado Students a Study in Progress
  • 17 October 2012: PSFA News Digest  (10/17/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Superintendent's Plan to Boost Schools: New 'Support Zones'
    • Santa Fe/ Superintendent Joel Boyd on Creating 'World-Class Schools'
    • Farmington/ Lights On Afterschool Rally at Library
    • Belen/ DAs: NM Lacks Law on School Threats
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC / ABQ Parenting Program Aims to Help Latinos Close Early-Learning Gaps
    • Washington DC/ Bandwidth Demands Rise as Schools Move to Common Core
    • Denver CO/ Bill Gates Drops in to Keep Tabs on Colorado Education Investment
  • 16 October 2012: PSFA News Digest  (10/16/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Grants/ School Party Kicks Off U.S. Senator Tom Udall's Visit
    • Santa Fe/ Santa Fe Community College Receives $1 Million Federal Funding for YouthBuild
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Starting Reform at the Top
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ States Punch Reset Button Under NCLB
    • Washington DC/ Are You Tech-Ready for the Common Core?
    • Columbus OH/ State Auditor: School Districts' Data Scrubbing Driven by "Mal-Intent"
    • Denver CO/ Denver: Fastest Growing Large Urban School District in US
    • Longmont CO/ Seeking Aid, School Districts Change Teacher Evaluations
    • New York NY/ Alvin Roth: Man Behind City's High School Admissions Wins 2012 Economics Nobel Prize
  • 13-15 October 2012: PSFA News Digest  (10/15/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Superintendent's Idea for Reform: Fuse Santa Fe's High Schools
    • ABQ/ Incredible Kids Day at Edward Gonzales Elementary: Letters for Literacy
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Parade on Canyon Road Kicks off SFPS's MusicFest!
    • Santa Fe/ OBITUARY: Betsy Tapia: St. Michael's Teacher 'Truly Changed Students' Lives'
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • El Paso TX/ Schools Confront Scandal of Students Who 'Disappeared' at Test Time
    • Denver CO/ Douglas County: Teacher Pilot Plan Using Market-Based Pay & Rigorous Evaluation
    • New York NY/ Dear Teacher, Johnny Is Skipping the Test
    • Washington DC/ College Persistence Linked to Rigorous Courses and Academic Advising
    • Washington DC/ Charter School Financing Gets You a Green Card? The New US-Visa Rush
    • Bangalore INDIA/ Rohini Nilekani Pours Her Wealth into Books for India's Poorest Children
    • Boston MA/ Games for Change: How Digital Fun is Becoming Way to Better the World
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Bill Gates, Other Billionaires Funding Charter Effort in Washington State
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Want to Ruin Teaching? Give Ratings
    • New York NY/ BOOK REVIEW: Exam Schools
  • 12 October 2012: PSFA News Digest  (10/12/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Farmington/ Secretary of Education-Designate Hanna Skandera Discusses School Grades
    • Raton/ Summer Program Boosts Reading Skills
    • Santa Fe/ Blast-Off: Capshaw Middle School Students Get Lift from Rocket Launches
    • Santa Fe/ Rocket Malfunctions Become Teaching Tool
    • Farmington/ New Mexico Celebrates Centennial with 100 Rocket Launches
    • Portales/ Bullying Prevention: Elementary Students Participate in National Awareness Month
    • Española/ Deferment Program Offers Options to Illegal Students
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: High-Tech Chip Tracking of Children in Schools
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Guide Advises on Tying English Proficiency to Common Core
    • Denver CO/ Adams 12 Five Star Schools Expands STEM Program
    • Boston MA/ How Tougher Classes in High School Can Help Kids Make it Through College
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Why 'Market Theory' of Education Reform Doesn't Work
  • 11 October 2012: PSFA News Digest  (10/11/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ La Raza Cites Work with Pre-K Latino Kids by Youth Development Inc.
    • Carlsbad/ Puckett Elementary School Awarded an "A" by PED
    • Clovis/ Marthella Lewis' Diversified instruction Fosters Literacy in Students
    • Taos/ Taos News Citizens of the Year: Educators Jim and Mary Gilroy
    • Anthony/ EDITORIAL: Anthony Elementary School Teaches Lesson to NM
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: "A Day Made Better" Program Aims to Fund Classrooms
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Civic Education Found Lacking in Most States
    • Boston MA/ Libraries Reinvent Themselves as Labs of Creativity
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: How Long One Teacher Took to Become Great
  • 10 October 2012: PSFA News Digest  (10/10/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Teachers Use Variety of Methods to Get Students' Reading Speed Up
    • Farmington/ School Grading Public Meeting to be Held in Farmington
    • Shiprock/ Central Consolidated Education Association Pushes Back on Teacher-Evaluation Pilot Program
    • Santa Fe/ Santa Fe For Students Partners with Communities in Schools to Expand Volunteer Aid
    • ABQ/ CEPR Presents to Albuquerque Public Schools District Council Meeting
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Many Choices for Mid-School Parents
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Oakland CA/ California Program Takes Aim at 'Teacher-Diversity Gap'
    • Washington DC/ Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
    • Los Angeles CA/ Sparking Conversations with Creativity
    • Medford MA/ OPINION: Long Live Paper
  • 9 October 2012: PSFA News Digest   (10/9/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Law Takes on Reading Instruction
    • Las Cruces/ Literacy for All: Reading Mini-Conference Coming to Camino Real Middle School
    • Cubero/ Grants/Cibola County School District Superintendent Search Continues
    • Taos/ School Administrators' Federal Court Case Dismissed
    • Santa Fe/ Judge Rules for Taos School Board Members
    • Raton/ Having a Blast(Off) in 100 NM Schools
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Detroit MI/ Educational Achievement Authority: New Statewide School District Projected to Grow to 60 Schools
    • Moorhead MS/ A Solution to Lost Early Childhood Opportunities in Mississippi?
    • New York NY/ Before a Test, a Poverty of Words
    • Canton GA/ Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School
    • Palo Alto CA/ Brain Scientists Seek Developmental Measures for Learning to Read
  • 6-8 October 2012: PSFA News Digest   (10/8/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Anthony/ Excellence at Anthony Elementary School
    • Santa Fe/ Superintendent Lets Students Talk Back at Public Forums
    • ABQ/ APS Proposes New Parent Engagement Policy
    • Socorro/ 3rd-Grade Retention Questioned
    • ABQ/ ACE High School's Collaboration with US Fish & Wildlife Service
    • Farmington/ Race to Educate: Running Events to Benefit Farmington Schools Foundation
    • White Sands/ Hispanic Heritage Speaker John Muñoz on Diversity, Importance of High School Diploma
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Developing Effective Educators
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ 'Gateway' Districts Struggle to Serve Immigrant Parents
    • New York NY/ Loopholes Seen at Schools in Obama Get-Tough Policy
    • Washington DC/ Exit Exams Face Pinch in Common-Core Push
    • Denver CO/ 2 Teacher Pay-for-Performance Programs Receive $37 Million Federal Funding
  • 5 October 2012: PSFA News Digest   (10/5/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ $600,000 Grant from Lumina Foundation to Aid UNM, CNM, APS Hispanics
    • Questa/ School Board Yet to Discuss Response to PED
    • Santa Fe/ PED Cites Farmington School District
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Laguna-Acoma Makes Data Hands-On Lesson
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Study Finds Benefits to Infusing Math into Science Lessons
    • Washington DC/ Giving Teachers Tools to Stop Bullying: Free Training Toolkit Now Available
    • Moscow RUSSIA/ Teachers Reveling in Growing Technology
    • New York NY/ EDITORIAL: The Documented Life
  • 4 October 2012: PSFA News Digest  (10/4/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Governor Martinez Still Pushing Education Reform Bill
    • Rio Rancho/ RRPS Workers May Get $500
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: Schools Taking Bullying Seriously
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/Federal Grants Totaling More Than $1.2 Million to Charter Schools
    • Washington DC/ Online Schools Face Backlash Amid Exploding Popularity
    • Orlando FL/ New State Pre-K Test Draws Concerns from Educators
    • Concord NH/ Charter Freeze Triggers Backlash, Scramble to Repeal
    • Washington DC/ Educate The Educator: New Initiative to Better Prepare Teachers for Instructing Military Kids
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Pearson's New Chief on the Business of Education
  • 3 October 2012: PSFA News Digest   (10/3/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Shiprock/ Central Consolidated School District Board Position to be Filled
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Education Secretary Arne Duncan Outlines Progress and Challenges Ahead
    • Washington DC/ Educators Craft Own Math E-Books for Common Core
    • Washington DC/ Education Secretary Arne Duncan Wants Digital Textbooks
    • El Paso TX/ School District Rebuilds After Fraudulent Testing Practices by Administrators
    • Miami FL/ OPINION: Education Gambit Needs Players
  • 2 October 2012: PSFA News Digest  (10/2/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Laguna-Acoma/ Junior-Senior High School Finds Tracking Improves Student Performance
    • Santa Fe/ PEC Denies Proposed Taos International Charter School
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Chinle AZ/ Shaun Martin: National Rural Teacher Award-Winner Draws on Navajo Heritage
    • Washington DC/ Deanna Jump: Kindergarten Teacher Becomes Self-Made Millionaire Selling Lesson Plans Online
    • Washington DC/ ESSAY: Salman Khan on Rise of the Tech-Powered Teacher
  • 29 September-1 October 2012: PSFA News Digest  (10/1/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ New Mexico School Superintendents' Association's Letter to State Schools' Boss
    • Santa Fe/ NM's Chances for $25 Million Federal "Race to the Top" Grant Touted
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Superintendent Joel Boyd's Public Forums Continue
    • Santa Fe/ Online-Only Schools: Next Flashpoint in Education Reform
    • El Rito/ Mesa Vista School District Receives $399,946 for Counseling
    • Clovis/ Cyber Bullying Probe
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Music Helps Teen Overcome Bullying
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ More Than $21 Million Awarded to School Districts to Expand Counseling Programs
    • Seattle WA/ Fostering Tech Talent in High Schools
    • Sacramento CA/ Free Digital Textbooks Offered as Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Bill
    • Denver CO/ Despite Slim Savings, More Colorado Districts Opt for 4-Day Week
    • New York NY/ In Film and Union's Ads, Dueling Views of Teachers
    • Austin TX/ Parents Pitch In to Help Schools Face Budget Cuts
    • Washington DC/ INTERVIEW with Marc Prensky: Quest for 'Digital Wisdom'
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Educating the World - No More Excuses
  • 28 September 2012: PSFA News Digest  (9/28/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Planned Buyer of Former St. Catherine's Indian School Property Steps Aside
    • Alamogordo/ City Moves Ahead with Challenge to PED Equalization Formula
    • Cibola County/ Life of an Educator: Superintendent Kilino Marquez
    • Moriarty/ Moriarty-Edgewood School District to Offer Free Meals
    • Deming/ Getting 3rd-Graders to Garden
    • Santa Fe/ LETTER: School Upgrades Complement City
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Education Department Awards $290 Million in Grants to Incentivize Top Teachers
    • Washington DC/ Traditional or Charter Schools? Actually, They Help Each Other
  • 27 September 2012: PSFA News Digest  (9/27/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Academy for Technology and the Classics Aims to Buy Building
    • Santa Fe/ Vacant Manderfield Elementary School Eyed by Nonprofit
    • ABQ/ UNM-CEPR Presents at Strive Network 2012 Convening
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: More Students Taking College Exams a Start
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: Schools Expanding 'Family Centers'
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Classroom Observations: Tough Part of Teacher Evals
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Denver CO/ Janus' $2.1 Million Grant to Boost Blended Learning in City Schools
    • Washington DC/ Latest States in Hunt for NCLB Flexibility Include Rural Players
    • New York NY/ Education Nation: Revived Support for Grammar Instruction
    • Denver CO/ EDITORIAL: Best DPS Schools Refute Critics
  • 25 September 2012: PSFA News Digest   (9/25/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ NM Land Office Lease Sale Brings in $4.89 Million
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS: Change State Funding Formula
    • ABQ/ Flat ACT/SAT Test Scores Nationwide Reflects NM Results
    • Santa Fe/ Hope 4 Today: Education Nonprofit Considers Purchasing St. Catherine Property
    • Acoma/ Educator Joe A. Aragon, Jr. Receives Prestigious Award
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Charters Promise High Quality
    • Santa Fe/ LETTER: True Financial Burden of Salary Hikes Hidden
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ SAT Scores Show Slight Decline
    • New York NY/ City to Add Pre-K Efforts in Poor Areas Next Year
    • Yuma AZ/ Education Nation: In Arizona Desert, A Charter School Competes
    • Chattanooga TN/ The Apprentice: Manufacturers and Community Colleges Team Up
  • 22-24 September 2012: PSFA News Digest  (9/24/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Students Threaten To 'Shoot Up' Tony Hillerman Middle School, Intervention Commended
    • ABQ/ Health Leadership Charter High School Charter to Help At-Risk Children
    • Las Cruces/ Gravel Pit Owners Clash with School District
    • Los Alamos/ Loma Colorado Library, UNM Partner to Provide GED Courses
    • ABQ/ Griegos School Principal Deanne Smith, Education Runs in Her Blood
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Measuring Success, One Principal at a Time
    • ABQ/ OPINION: APS Reaches High for Top Rankings
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Superintendent on Accepting Responsibility for Student Success
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ School Districts Lack Critical Data on Early Education
    • New York NY/ Public Television Takes Role in Curbing Dropout Rates
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Superintendents Fight Ohio's 'Third Grade Guarantee'
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Education First
  • 21 September 2012: PSFA News Digest  (9/21/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Española/ Proposed 2-Mill Levy Fails for 4th Time in a Row
    • ABQ/ APS to Review Residency Data at North Star Elementary School
    • ABQ/ PEC Rejects 8 of 9 Charter School Plans
    • Santa Fe/ 2 Santa Fe Charter School Applications Rejected
    • Santa Fe/ State PEC Panel Turns Down Virtual Charter School Bid
    • ABQ/ APS Approves More Online Info for Parents
    • Grants/ School Superintendent Search Begins, $1.9 Million in GAO Bonds Authorized
    • Sandia Park/ East Mountain High School Students Find Confidence on Czech Republic Trip
    • Questa/ State PED Suspends Entire Questa School Board [ABQ Journal]
    • Questa/ State PED Suspends School Board [Taos News]
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Parochial Approach Won't Reform Schools
    • Portales/ OPINION: Teaching to the Middle No Longer Acceptable
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Sacramento CA/ State Poised to Spotlight ELLs Stalled in Schools
    • Washington DC/ $1.5+ Million to Strengthen Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Instruction
    • Washington DC/ Civil Rights Project Report: American Schools Still Heavily Segregated By Race, Income
    • Washington DC/ Public School Funding Unequal: State, Local School Finance Systems Perpetuate Per-Student Spending Disparities
    • Washington DC/ Scholars and Educators Team Up for the Long Haul
    • Staten Island NY/ ESSAY: The Writing Revolution at New Dorp High School
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Is Online Education Plateauing?
  • 20 September 2012: PSFA News Digest   (9/20/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Proposed Educator Pension Contribution Hike Backed
    • Santa Fe/ New Evaluations for SFPS Workers Proposed
    • ABQ/ $1.3 Million NIH Grants Enrich Science Programs in Rural NM Middle Schools
    • Santa Fe/ NM PED Suspends Entire Questa School Board
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: Today's Teachers Provided with More Tools
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Teachers Make Easy Scapegoat
    • New York NY/ OPINION: A Digital Tool to Unlock Learning
  • 19 September 2012: PSFA News Digest  (9/19/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Taos/ Voters Renew Taos County Educational GRT
    • Santa Fe/ Superintendent Joel Boyd Unveils Plan to Evaluate School Principals
    • ABQ/ APS Insurance Rates Rising
    • ABQ/ APS, Community Take On Bullying
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Interplay of Strategies Seen as Key in Turnarounds
    • New York NY/ Coursera Education Site Expands Slate of Universities and Courses
    • New York NY/ More Colleges Team with Coursera, For-Profit Web-Based Educator
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Schooling Beyond Measure
  • 18 September 2012: PSFA News Digest  (9/18/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Carlsbad/ $3.4 Million Technology Bond Would Replace Lost Funding for Carlsbad Schools
    • Santa Fe/ Outsiders Pushing Charter Schools
    • Farmington/ New Mexico Virtual Academy: Virtual Charter School Questioned
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: APS Wired Into Smart Online Credit Controls
    • Santa Fe/ 3 LETTERS: Dollars for Executives, None for Teachers
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Palo Alto CA/ Startup Hopefuls Test Ideas with Educators
    • Washington DC/ Arts in Education Week: Federal Resources
    • New York NY/ ESSAY: The Machines are Taking Over
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Can Cat's Cradle Help Save Our Schools?
  • 15-17 September 2012: PSFA News Digest  (9/17/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Rio Rancho/ Jason Lucero: Custodial Foreman for Rio Rancho Middle School Wins District Acclaim
    • Carlsbad/ School Board Members to Vote on $3.4 Million Technology Bond
    • Santa Fe/ Poverty, School Grades Still Linked
    • Clovis/ Superintendent: New Teacher-Principal Evaluation System Untested
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Administrators Get Small Salary Increase
    • Rio Rancho/ School Board Reviews High School Truancy Rates
    • ABQ/ Alvarado Elementary School Kindergartners Harvest Garden
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Teacher Evaluations Should Be Multifaceted, Comprehensive
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ White House Outlines Impact of Looming Sequestration Cuts
    • Washington DC/ DREAM Act-Lite: 7 in 100 Eligible Illegal Immigrants Apply
    • Tucson AZ/ Schools Overhaul Program to Help Struggling Hispanic Students
    • Washington DC/ NAEP Shows Most Students Lack Writing Proficiency
    • New York NY/ Could Raising Salaries Be Best Way to Attract and Keep Better Teachers?
    • New York NY/ EDITORIAL: In Search of Excellent Teaching
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Training Teachers to Embrace Reform
    • Chicago IL/ OPINION: Are We Asking Too Much From Our Teachers?
  • 14 September 2012: PSFA News Digest   (9/14/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Española/ 2-Mill Levy Before Voters September 18
    • Taos/ County Educational GRT on September 18 Ballot
    • ABQ/ APS May Tighten Online Class Rules
    • ABQ/ Legislation Proposed to Preserve Native Languages
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Charlottesville VA/ Research Links 'Responsive' Teaching to Academic Gains
    • Washington DC/ Most States Providing Common-Core Instructional Materials
    • Washington DC/ More Than $6 Million Awarded for Indian Education and Professional Development
    • New York NY/ Hey, Elmo, That Concept Has Legs
    • Denver CO/ CDE & GED Testing Service Partner on Computerized High School Equivalency Test
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: The 'Human Touch' in Computer-Based Learning
  • 13 September 2012: PSFA News Digest  (9/13/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Taos/ State to Vote on 2 Taos Charter School Proposals
    • ABQ/ Poll: Majority Backs Linking Teacher Salaries to Scores
    • Rio Rancho/ RRPS Workers Receive $500 Payment
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Common Core Thrusts School Librarians into Leadership Roles
    • Washington DC/ Literacy Information and Communication System Launched
    • New York NY/ Poll: Parents and Teachers Support Spending for Classroom Technology
    • Denver CO/ INTERVIEW: State Board Representative Elaine Gantz Berman on CO's Educational Landscape
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Business Group Gauges STEM 'Vital Signs' Across States
  • 12 September 2012: PSFA News Digest  (9/12/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Superintendent Joel Boyd Takes Hot Seat at 1st of 9 Community Forums
    • Roswell/ NM Mexico Military Institute: Class of 2012 Bests State & National ACT Averages
    • Clovis/ Clovis & Portales School Enrollment Down Slightly
    • Farmington/ ConocoPhillips Awards: $100,000 for 39 Projects
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Game Puts Fun, Real World Back in Math
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Charter Schools Still Subject to Assault by APS
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Paris FRANCE/ OECD Study Finds US Trailing in Preschool Enrollment
    • New York NY/ US Students Struggle More Than Global Peers to Top Parents
    • Washington DC/ $9.8 Million to Fund Centers for Parents of Students with Disabilities
    • New York NY/ Chicago Teachers' Strike Reflects National Feud
    • Chicago IL/ National Schools Debate on Display in Chicago
    • Denver CO/ School Reform Group Wants More Consistent, Better Arts Education
    • San Francisco CA/ INTERVIEW: San Francisco School Superintendent Richard Carranza
  • 11 September 2012: PSFA News Digest  (9/11/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Grants/ Grants High School ACT Scores Surpass the State
    • ABQ/ APS Meeting to Address Overcrowding
    • ABQ/ NM Rural Middle Schools to Benefit from UNM Science Grant
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: APS Team Keeps It All Humming
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ 7 States, Puerto Rico and Bureau of Indian Education Request NCLB Flexibility
    • New Orleans LA/ Louisiana Opens Novel Marketplace of K-12 Courses
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Why Latest Race to the Top Competition Matters
  • 8-10 September 2012: PSFA News Digest  (9/10/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Superintendent Joel Boyd: New Plan to Address Proficiency in District Schools
    • Farmington/ State's 1st Virtual Academy Opens Amid Questions
    • Rio Rancho/ Clarification of High School Students' Use of Cell Phones
    • ABQ/ Computer Games Get Students Into Math
    • ABQ/ Sierra Vista Elementary School Adds Pre-Kindergarten Class
    • Fruitland/ Ojo Amarillo Elementary School: Little School Showing Big Success
    • Artesia/ Central Elementary School: Only NM 2012 National Blue Ribbon School
    • Taos/ Sustainability: Students Grow with School Gardens
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Changing Ways, Reaching Parents
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Superintendent Boyd Reaches Out to Parents
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: A to F School Grades Not Ready for Prime Time
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Evaluations Would Lift, Not Punish, Teachers
    • ABQ/ OPINION: The Good and Bad in Schools, as in Life
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ New Breed of Community Partnerships Aiding Schools
    • Washington DC/ Education Department Disables Access to Full-Text Documents on ERIC
    • New York NY/ Teacher Grading Off to Uneven Start
    • New York NY/ State Seeks to Set Up Unit to Oversee Pre-K Contractors
    • Denver/ EDITORIAL: Public Schools Makes Case for $515 Million Tax Increase
    • Washington DC/ BOOK REVIEW: Fire in the Ashes by Jonathan Kozol
    • New York NY/: OPINION: America Can 'Out-Educate and Out-Compete' Anyone
    • London England/ OPINION: Why Would Kids Read Books If Their Parents Never Do?
  • 7 September 2012: PSFA News Digest   (9/7/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Cubero/ Grants/Cibola County Schools Proudly Opens New Cubero Elementary School
    • Estancia/ Schools in Estancia District To Get Updates
    • Deming/ NM Secretary for Workforce Solutions Celina Bussey: Education Vital to Job Market
    • Santa Fe/ Santa Fe School for the Arts & Sciences' Reading Program Aims To Hook Kids on Books
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Boston MA/ Is Top-Ranked Massachusetts Messing with Education Success?
    • Washington DC/ Virtual Education Addresses Teacher-Certification Questions
    • Denver CO/ Colorado State to Offer Credits for Online Class
    • Yonkers NY/ City Courts Investors to Fix Schools
    • Washington DC/ California Spending More on Prisons Than Colleges
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: World Class Teachers for 61 Million Out-of-School Youth
  • 6 September 2012: PSFA News Digest  (9/6/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Superintendent Joel Boyd Unveils Parent Academy
    • Santa Fe/ 2 Top Santa Fe Public Schools Positions Filled
    • Rio Rancho/ Cool Vans Shoes Prize Money: $55,000 Will Help Foot Arts Bill
    • ABQ/ Early Literacy Center Opens at Albuquerque Library
    • Santa Fe/ PED License Ethics File Still Open at State Auditor's Office
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: 'Techbooks' May Lead Way to Learning
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: Students Off to Successful Start
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ E-Learning Funding Models Analyzed
    • Washington DC/ How Children Succeed: Which Matters More, Cognitive Ability or Motivation?
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: A New Finnish Lesson: Why Gender Equality Matters in School Reform
    • Middletown CT/ OPINION: Learning as Freedom
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Poverty Must be Tackled But Never Used as an Excuse
  • 1-5 September 2012: PSFA News Digest  (9/5/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ School District Honored For Saving Energy
    • ABQ/ 'Techbooks' Instead of Textbooks
    • Santa Fe/ Kids Campus at Santa Fe Community College on Mission to Teach Tots
    • ABQ/ 2 Elementary Schools Get Library Makeovers
    • Tesuque/ Trouble in Numbers: Elementary School Reports Sharp Drop in Enrollment
    • Santa Fe/ Tents Help Desert Academy Start in New Home
    • Eunice/ Urenco's App Teaches Kids About Energy
    • Raton/ District Schools Receive Intel Water-Study Grant
    • Santa Fe/ School Board Hears from Students Who Failed State Test
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Testing Experience for High-Schoolers
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: High School Diploma Must Mean Something
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Pecos Schools Seek Voters' OK for $5.4 Million Facilities' Upgrade
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: NM School Funding Formula Unfair to Santa Fe Teachers
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Gervais OR/ School District Bets Future on Real Estate
    • Miami FL/ Race To The Top District Competition Receives Nearly 900 Applications
    • Phoenix AZ/ US, Arizona Settle over Students with Limited English
    • Pasadena CA/ University of the People: A Free Online University Tests the Waters
    • Boston MA/ Back to School: From Rural Africa to Ivy League
    • Washington DC/ High-Performing Teachers in Low-Income Schools to Get Fastest Raises
    • Berkeley CA/ New Attendance Push Prized by Students, Educators
    • Omaha NE/ OPINION: Indoor Air Quality Management Helping to Improve Academic Achievement
    • Los Angeles CA/ OPINION: Schools Push Out Best Teachers
    • Tucson AZ/ OPINION: Bonus? Did Tucson School Board Reward Superintendent for MAS Crackdown?
  • 31 August 2012: PSFA News Digest  (8/31/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • San Antonio/ Elementary School Building May See Changes Soon
    • Española/ Highmark School Development: Delay in New McCurdy Construction
    • Española/ New Track Funding Tied to Cariños Long Term Lease
    • Española/ New La Tierra Montessori Charter School Proposes Tie with El Centro
    • Questa/ School Board Hires Lester Beason as Interim Superintendent
    • ABQ/ Thieves Help Themselves to APS Electronics
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: State Needs to Buy Local
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Special Needs Kids Worry About SBA
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ In Districts Where Seniors Outnumber Children, Schools Adjust
  • 30 August 2012: PSFA News Digest  (8/30/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Who Rules the Schools?
    • ABQ/ Susie Rayos Marmon Elementary School: Educating Teachers
    • Mescalero/ Udall Visits Mescalero Apache Schools to Talk Language Preservation
    • ABQ/ Albuquerque Public Schools' Community Stadium Earns Award
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Will Preschool Budget Cuts Damage a Generation?
  • 29 August 2012: PSFA News Digest  (8/29/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Clovis/ Middle School Redistricting Plan Approved
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ New Laws, Programs Expand E-Learning Options
    • Washington DC/ New 'STEMworks Database' Aims to Identify Strong Programs
    • Seattle WA/ Indian Tribal Leaders Give ED Input on Needs of Urban Indian Students
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: The Rebirth of Recess
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Can Bilingualism Counteract Effects of Poverty?
  • 28 August 2012: PSFA News Digest   (8/28/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Zuni/ PBS' Time Team America: 24 Middle School Students on 4-Day Archaeology Adventure
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Charter Schools: Why They Succeed
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Out-of-School Settings Create Climate for New Skills
  • 25-27 August 2012: PSFA News Digest  (8/27/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ NM Land Office August Lease Sale Brings in $7.39 Million
    • ABQ/ High School Diplomas at Risk for 10,000 in NM
    • Casa Blanca/ Laguna-Acoma High School Staff Receive $160,000 in Merit Pay
    • Alamogordo/ Academic Opportunities Academy Proposes Alamogordo Charter School
    • Santa Fe/ Public Education Commission Seeks to Tighten Appeals on State Charter Schools
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Familiar Blame Game Hasn't Fixed Truancy
    • ABQ/ OPINION: APS Engaging Families to Partner Against Truancy
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Seeking Solutions to Nation's Math Problem
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Big-City Districts Bail on Teacher-Incentive Grants
    • Westminster CO/ Adams County School District 50: Innovative Framework Showing Results After 3 Years
    • New York NY/ 6 Weeks to Adapt to America
  • 24 August 2012: PSFA News Digest  (8/24/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ State's New Grading System Puzzles Lawmakers
    • Grants/ Mount Taylor Elementary Principal Benny Gallegos Explains School's Grade
    • Carlsbad/ Schools Hire Architect Firm for Bond Measure
    • Questa/ Superintendent Roy Herrera Resigns; Public Calls for Board Unity
    • ABQ/ Lawsuit Filed by Former Associate Principal
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ NYC Study Finds Vouchers Boost Blacks' College-Going Rates
    • Boston MA/ Do Private School Vouchers Help?
    • Washington DC/ As Competition Grows, Districts Make Pitches To Boost Enrollment
    • Denver CO/ Schools to Ask Voters for More Than $500 Million
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: What to Do - and Not Do - for Growing Number of ELLs
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Preschool Investments Critical for Global Competitiveness
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: China Aiming for the Gold in Starting Kids Early, US Late to the Game
    • Washington DC/ BOOK REVIEW: Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public Schools
  • 23 August 2012: PSFA News Digest  (8/23/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Oil Production Up in New Mexico, Boosting Revenue
    • Santa Fe/ Atalaya Elementary School Makeover to Start in Spring 2013
    • ABQ/ Health Leadership High School: Proposed New South Valley Charter School Debated
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: District Bustles for New School Year
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ American Schools Spending Less on Minority Students Through Federal Loophole
    • New York NY/ UCLA and Child Trends Study: Cost of Living Affects Student Achievement
    • Chicago IL/ COLUMN: The Right Mentors for Our Teachers
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: US Education Must Keep Up with Bold Programs of China & India
  • 22 August 2012: PSFA News Digest  (8/22/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Reorganization Plan to Save $500,000
    • Santa Fe/ Superintendent's Team Frees Up $500,000
    • Tucumcari/ School Superintendent Aaron McKinney's Contract Extended
    • Hobbs/ Schools' Hiring Difficulty Partly Due to Housing Shortage
    • Santa Fe/ School Board Votes to Bring Back Per Diem
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: APS Misses the Point-Charters Fill a Need
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: School Re-Formed-The Business of School
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ ACT Finds Most Students Still Not Ready for College
    • Washington DC/ Federal Agencies Spar Over NAEP for Special Populations
    • New Orleans LA/ School Vouchers Make Comeback, Stir Concerns about Quality
    • Washington DC/ DC Charter Schools Fight Second-Class Status
    • Washington DC/ School Gardens Blooming Teach Lessons on Nutrition, Environment, Science, Teamwork
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Thinking We Know What We Test
  • 21 August 2012: PSFA News Digest  (8/21/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Raton/ Core Curriculum to Increase Education Standards
    • Portales/ High School Focusing on Attendance
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Start Talking Now about School Calendar
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Launch of Enhanced Version of Online Learning Community for School Turnaround
    • Washington DC/ Debate Revs Up Around Closing Low-Achieving Charter Schools
    • Los Angeles CA/ Students with Special Needs Staying in Traditional Public Schools
    • New York NY/ MOOC: Free Online Course Will Rely on Multiple Sites
    • New York NY/ Pew Hispanic Center: More Hispanics in College
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Broad Foundation's Plan to Expand Influence in School Reform
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Rethinking Teacher Compensation
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Smaller School Districts Might Not Reach Race to the Top's Starting Line
  • 18-20 August 2012: PSFA News Digest  (8/20/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Superintendent Tasks Committee to Find Funds for Teacher Pay Raises
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS New Superintendent Joel Boyd Impresses Reception
    • Portales/ Schools Earn NCA CASI Accreditation
    • ABQ/ Firms Helping Spruce Up Ernie Pyle Middle School
    • ABQ/ New Anti-Bullying Policies Take Effect Statewide
    • ABQ/ APS Schools Adopt New Policy for Naming Buildings
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: New School Superintendent Joel Boyd has Strong Plans, Personality
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: APS Flunks Test on Removing Bad Teachers
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Obama: Education Data Justify Jobs Plan
    • Washington DC/ Obama Back-To-School Report Highlights Education Cuts, Teacher Layoffs
    • Denver CO/ Education's Digital Divide More about Bandwidth than Computer Hardware
    • Los Angeles CA/ Media Companies, Seeing Profit Slip, Push into Education
    • New York NY/ More States Requiring Students to Repeat a Grade: Is it the Right Thing to Do?
    • San Jose CA/ Video-Content Startup Aims to Compete with Khan Academy
    • Washington DC/ Study: STEM Majors Prove Especially Profitable for Minority Students
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Blending High School and Higher Education for STEM
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: What Schools Need: Vigor Instead of Rigor
    • New York NY/ VIDEOS: Top Teachers Explaining Their Craft
  • 17 August 2012: PSFA News Digest  (8/17/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Grants/ Governor Susana Martinez Visits Mesa View Elementary School
    • Farmington/ Navajo Preparatory School Prepares for International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
    • Raton/ Extracurricular Eligibility Policy Finalized; Board Retains Current Standards, Grading Period Changed
    • Española/ Head Start Program Heads to Chimayó
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Los Angeles CA/ School Building Boom Led to Gains for Young Students in LA
    • Greensboro NC/ Early-College Model Brings Lessons, Results in NC
    • Chicago IL/ Bilingual Education Law: Illinois Governor Signs Legislation to Strengthen Language Programs
    • Denver CO/ New Denver Rocky Mountain Prep Charter School Brings Big Aspirations to Students
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: The Big Business of Charter Schools
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Expanding the Impact of Excellent Teachers
  • 16 August 2012: PSFA News Digest  (8/16/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ NM Educator Pension Fund Assets at $9 Billion
    • Farmington/ Governor Susana Martinez Visits Classes at Northeast Elementary School
    • ABQ/ APS to Oppose New Charter Schools
    • ABQ/ Teachers' Union Contract Approved
    • Santa Fe/ Class in Session for New Santa Fe Public Schools Superintendent Joel Boyd
    • Rio Rancho/ RR School District Keeping Lobbyist
    • Rio Rancho/ Future Champions of America: School Board Hires Faith-Based Group
    • Deming/ Chaparral Elementary School Retained Teaching Experience
    • Columbus/ Columbus Elementary School Faces Unique Challenges
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: 'Kindergarten Kickoff' Proves Successful
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ For Young Illegal Immigrants, a Day of Hugs, Smiles, Joy ... and Qualms
    • Washington DC/ 'Hybrid' Home-Teaching Options Grow in Popularity
    • Washington DC/ Top Math Achievers Spread Unevenly Across Similar Schools
    • New York NY/ Show and Tell for Teachers, Inspired by Reality TV
    • Denver CO/ Pilot High Schools Post AP Test Gains in Legacy Initiative
  • 15 August 2012: PSFA News Digest   (8/15/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ State Land Trust Keeps Mineral Royalties, Releases $1.5 Million to Schools
    • Taos/ Cyber Magnet School to Relocate-Expansion in the Works
    • ABQ/ School Board Votes on Teachers' Union Contract Tonight
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Making the Most of the School Year
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Consortia Provide Preview of Common Assessments
    • New York NY/ OPINION: New Way of Testing Rookie Teachers Could Be a Game-Changer
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: A New Way to Evaluate Teachers - by Teachers
  • 14 August 2012: PSFA News Digest  (8/14/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Construction Still Not Complete at Gonzales Community School
    • Las Cruces/ Centennial High School: Exciting Opening Day for Students on New Campus
    • Las Cruces/ New Centennial High School Campus Boasts Advanced 911 System
    • ABQ/ Governor Susana Martinez Lauds Laguna-Acoma High School
    • Santa Fe/ Gov. Susana Martinez to Sign Education MOU with Navajo Nation
    • Santa Fe/ 30,000 NM First-Graders Receive Books to Take Home
    • Santa Fe/ New Superintendent Joel Boyd: Young and Smart, with High Ambition
    • Deming/ Memorial Elementary School Works to Improve 'C' School Grade
    • Raton/ Back to School Adjustment for Kindergarteners-Jump Start Program
    • Farmington/ Educators Reflect on What School was Like for Them
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Challenges Won't Limit Optimism
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Los Angeles CA/ Young Immigrants, in America Illegally, Line Up for Reprieve
    • Boston MA/ EDITORIAL: Teachers Who Excel-A Lesson from Miss Smoot
    • Washington DC/ ESSAY: A Teacher's Reach-A Vietnamese-American Writer Remembers His First Teacher
  • 11-13 August 2012: PSFA News Digest  (8/13/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Cubero/ State-of-the-Art Elementary School Opens
    • ABQ/ Schools to Start Using Standardized Curriculum
    • ABQ/ South Valley Academy Plans $8 Million Expansion
    • ABQ/ Proposed New Charter School to Focus on Health Jobs
    • Las Cruces/ Public Meeting Set for Proposed Charter School
    • Santa Fe/ Shelter Program Helps Youth Earn GED Diplomas
    • Santa Fe/ New Mexico Children's Foundation Makes a Difference for State's Children
    • ABQ/ More Free Meals at APS
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: APS Board Should Stick to Its Position
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Does Summer End Too Abruptly for SFPS Kids?
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Border Policies Affect Classrooms
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Boulder CO/ Back to School: How to Measure a Good Teacher
    • Denver CO/ More Than 300 Teachers Leave Douglas County Schools
    • Washington DC/ $400 Million Race to Top Contest for Districts Starts Now
    • Cherry Hill NJ/ Help Your Preschooler Love to Learn
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Solving the Textbook-Common Core Conundrum
  • 10 August 2012: PSFA News Digest  (8/10/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ North Star Elementary School Students Urged to Switch
    • Santa Fe/ Superintendent Joel Boyd: Starting Over
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Schools Not Quite Ready
    • Las Cruces/ The Bridge of Southern New Mexico Paving Way for Students
    • Moriarty/ Schools Set Big, Small Changes
    • Springer/ Schools Upgrade Computer System
    • Portales/ Educators Prep for Changes
    • Deming/ Deming High School Teacher Toni Hull: 2012-1013 National Teaching Ambassador Fellow
    • Española/ State Audit Scandal Forces School District to Sell Its Own Bonds
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Ongoing Support Essential to Teacher Success
    • Santa Fe/ LETTER: Think 'Inside' Box for Better Schools
    • ABQ/ LETTER: Smaller Schools Essential to Student Success
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Advocates Raise Concerns on Looming 'Sequester' Cuts
    • Washington DC/ Legislative-Control Fights Up Ante on K-12 Policy
    • Aurora CO/ City, Schools Ink Work-Life Pact for Students
    • Washington DC/ Education Secretary Duncan Announces 12 Teacher Ambassador Fellows for 2012-13 School Year
    • Washington DC/ Science Education Standards: Can New Recommendations Help 'Mediocre to Awful' States?
    • New York NY/ Q&A: Heather O'Mara-Teacher-Student Relationship Remains Vital in Online Learning
  • 9 August 2012: PSFA News Digest   (8/9/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Deming/ Major Upgrade for Bell Elementary School
    • ABQ/ APS to Auction Portable Buildings
    • ABQ/ Shelly Green to Become District's Interim Chief Academic Officer
    • Santa Fe/ Steven Carrillo: School Begins Too Early
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: Summer Reading Program Successful
    • Santa Fe/ INTERVIEW [audio]: New Superintendent Talks About Turning Around Santa Fe Schools
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Fort Huachuca AZ/ Colonel Smith Middle School: Net Zero Energy Classrooms Opens
    • Washington DC/ Can Technology Replace Teachers?
    • Washington DC/ Number of Online Education Degrees Skyrocket
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Teachers and Principals Meet
  • 8 August 2012: PSFA News Digest   (8/8/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Tucumcari/ New Tucumcari High School Opens
    • ABQ/ APS OKs Pay for Teacher/Legislators
    • Santa Fe/ School Turnaround Specialist Program to Help Troubled Schools
    • Santa Fe/ Big Changes Coming to Failing New Mexico Schools
    • Santa Fe/ Millions Slated for Failing Schools
    • Santa Fe/ New SFPS Superintendent Joel Boyd Urges Pay Raises
    • Santa Fe/ Educators Meet on Common Core Standards
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: K-3 Plus Can't Exclude Intervention/Retention
    • Laguna/ OPINION: Laguna Acoma High School Scores Well in SBA Examinations
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Obama's DREAM Act: How It Will Work is Still in Progress
    • Washington DC/ NAEP to Expand Use of Background Data
    • Washington DC/ Skillshare Offers Courses Online to Expand 'Marketplace' for Education
  • 7 August 2012: PSFA News Digest  (8/7/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ High School Graduation Requirements Toughen
    • Carlsbad/ Academic Opportunities Academy Charter School Proposed
    • Grants/ Superintendent Marquez Sees School District Moving in Right Direction
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: A Too-Early Start for Schoolchildren
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Connected Educator Month: Game-Based Learning
    • New York NY/ In Major Expansion, Kno Adds K-12 to Digital Education Platform
    • Denver CO/ EDITORIAL: Giving Young Illegals a Chance
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Arne Duncan on Reform and Back to School
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Kindergarten in the Computer
  • 4-6 August 2012: PSFA News Digest  (8/6/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ LFC Study: K-3 Plus Boosts Student Scores
    • Santa Fe/ NM Agency Considers 14 Charter School Proposals
    • Santa Fe/ Former CCSD Superintendent Linda Besett Takes Wood Gormley Elementary to Top Mark
    • Deming/ School District Welcomes 32 New Teachers
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Teacher Evaluation Systems Gain Reform Traction
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: New Superintendent on Teachers, Tests and SFPS Future
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ US Department of Education Awards $11 Million in Grants to Support Charter School Facilities
    • Baltimore MD/ Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth: Pilot Program Targets Gifted Rural Students
    • Phoenix AZ/ To Increase Learning Time, Some Schools Add Days to Academic Year
    • Siletz OR/ Tribe Revives Language on Verge of Extinction
    • New York NY/ EDITORIAL: Carrots and Sticks for School Systems
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Educating Through Service
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Online Learning, Teaching and Misleading Opinions
  • 3 August 2012: PSFA News Digest  (8/3/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Joel Boyd: Schools Chief's 'Passion' Inspiring
    • Santa Fe/ New Superintendent: Rejoice in Success, Correct Failures
    • Clovis/ School Redistricting Questions Addressed
    • Ohkay Owingeh/ Pueblo Schools Buck National Learning Trend
    • Española/ Cariños Charter School Enrolls High Percentage of Students with Disabilities
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Data Reveal School Grading System as Resounding Failure
  • 2 August 2012: PSFA News Digest  (8/2/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Rio Rancho / Native American Summer Academy: Robots Rule
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: Changing Technology Means New Challenges
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ NBER Study: Timing of Student Rewards Key to Effectiveness
    • New York NY/ Can Twitter Replace Traditional Professional Development?
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Some Kids Need More to Get the Same Result
  • 1 August 2012: PSFA News Digest   (8/1/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ $102,081 Federal Grant to Help Pay for AP Exams
    • Santa Fe/ Joel Boyd Begins as School District's New Superintendent
    • ABQ/ Profile of 5 Top-Scoring NM Schools: Commit to Excel
    • ABQ/ APS Pilot Program Unveils Preliminary Findings
    • ABQ/ APS Touts Benefits of 2012 National Institute for School Boards Conference
    • San Jon/ Q&A: New Superintendent Colin Taylor
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Questions Dog Common-Core Test Development
    • Washington DC/ Feds Pledge More Focus on Outcomes for Students With Disabilities
    • Washington DC/ $1.2 Million Awarded to Train Arts Educators Serving High-Poverty Schools
    • Washington DC/ INTERVIEW: Should We Care About Media Literacy?
  • 31 July 2012: PSFA News Digest  (7/31/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Sweeney Elementary School Construction Not Complete
    • Santa Fe/ Group: Grading System Too Complex
    • Carlsbad/ Hidden School Costs? Schools Ask Parents to Pitch In
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ 242 Applicants Compete for Share of $60 Million 2012 Promise Neighborhoods
    • Washington DC/ TNTP Report: Principals Drop Ball on Teacher Retention
    • Washington DC/ TNTP Education Report: 'Irreplaceable' Teachers Retained Poorly
    • San Jose CA/ Is Rocketship Charter School Chain Ready to Soar Across America?
    • Washington DC/ History Lessons Blend Content Knowledge, Literacy
  • 28-30 July 2012: PSFA News Digest  (7/30/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ UNM Center for Education Policy Research Links
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS to Spend $2.4 Million on Macs, iPads
    • ABQ/ Dual Credit Gets Results
    • Santa Fe/ A-F grades for Schools, a Floodlight on NM Education
    • Santa Fe/ Lawmakers, Skandera Spar about Tying Teacher Evaluations to Student Test Scores
    • Socorro/ Casa Alegre Supports Families, Children's Learning Development
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: New Superintendent Gets Down to Work
    • ABQ/ OPINION: A-F Fails; Teachers, Curriculum the Answer
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Dollars4Schools Website Makes Donations to Public Schools Easier
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Canton MI/ Without High-Quality Preschool, Mississippi's Kids Risk Being Left Behind
    • New York NY/ To Earn Classroom Certification, More Teaching and Less Testing
    • London, England/ School Gardens: Growing Greener Kids
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Addressing Poverty in Schools
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Education's Biggest Design Flaw
  • 27 July 2012: PSFA News Digest  (7/27/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Carlsbad/ Proposed $60 Million Bond to Build 4 New Schools
    • Las Cruces/ Community Amazed by New Centennial High School
    • Española/ EDITORIAL: Parents, Taxpayers Need Plan, Direction to Improve Schools
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Head Start Fears Impact of Potential Budget Cuts
  • 26 July 2012: PSFA News Digest  (7/26/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ PED Report to LFC: Early Start on Reading Helps Students
    • ABQ/ 2012 Kids Count: New Mexico Ranking on Child Welfare Falls to 49
    • Clovis/ Education Feature: Custodians Put in Long Hours Over Summer
    • Socorro/ Budget Finalized for School Year
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: Administration Still Working During Summer
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Lawmakers Explore Impact of Automatic Cuts on Education
    • Washington DC/ 23rd-Annual Kids Count Data Book Finds Child Education, Health Improving
    • New York NY/ Rich Kid, Poor Kid: How Mixed Neighborhoods Could Save America's Schools
    • Washington DC/ African-American Education Office: White House Initiative on Educational Excellence
    • Boston/ Change Agent: Teach Twice Shares Stories with the World
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: How To Build a Better Teacher
  • 25 July 2012: PSFA News Digest  (7/25/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Easing Transition for SFPS Chief
    • Santa Fe/ Public Schools' Incoming Superintendent Maps Out First 100 Days
    • Santa Fe/ Governor Martinez: No More Draws from $15 Billion State Endowments
    • Clovis/ School Redistricting Aims to Keep Classmates Together
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Los Angeles CA/ Judge Sides With Parent-Led Proposed Overhaul Low-Performing School
    • Washington DC/ Cut Education Now, Pay Later: 'What Does This Kind Of Negligence Do To Our Students?'
    • Berkeley CA/ University of California, Berkeley to Join Free Online Learning Partnership EdX
  • 24 July 2012: PSFA News Digest  (7/24/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Land Office Receives $3.9 Million from Oil, Gas Leases
    • Santa Fe/ State Grading System Presented to School Board
    • Santa Fe/ School District Wants Clarification of A-F System
    • Raton/ $89,000 State Grant to Fund Local Reading Coach
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Job Roles Shifting for Districts' Central Offices
    • Washington DC/ News Corp. Ed. Division Moves Into K-12 Curriculum
    • New York NY/ 'Smaller Class Size' Tops List of Changes New York City Parents Want
    • New York NY/ Enrollment Off in Big Districts Nationwide, Forcing Layoffs
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: The Tennessee Story
  • 21-23 July 2012: PSFA News Digest   (7/23/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Youth, Lack of Education Cited for Growing Disparity
    • Rio Rancho/ Attorney Fees for RRPS Mulled
    • Grants/ State Initiative to Provide Reading Books
    • Moriarty/ $123,000 New Mexico Reads to Lead Grant Awarded
    • Socorro/ Mountain School Board Discusses Grades, Attendance, Technology Issues
    • Taos/ Pueblo Works to Keep Tiwa from 'Going to Sleep'
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Defenders of Status Quo Should Embrace Reform
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Districts, Lawmakers Get Online Homework
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Union Has No Right to Members' SSNs
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Education Crisis Threatens US Future
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Teachers Want Real Reform, Not Slogans
    • ABQ/ OPINION: The Educator's Case for Real Reform
    • Santa Fe/ LETTER: Praise for Piñon Elementary School
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Districts Bring Tech Programmers In-House
  • 20 July 2012: PSFA News Digest  (7/20/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ $2.1 Million Distributed for Early Literacy Programs
    • Clovis/ Lawmakers Question New Grading System
    • Grants/ School District Report Card Grades
    • ABQ/ Online English Credit Gets OK
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: School Board Chose Fairness Over Political Expediency
    • ABQ/ OPINION: School Grading System
    • Santa Fe/ OBITUARY: Michael Davis, Last State Superintendent of Public Education
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York/ $100,000 Thiel Fellowships: Drop Out, Start Up
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: The Rat Race of Childhood - Why We Need to Balance Students' Lives
    • New York NY/ OPINION: The Trouble with Online Education
  • 19 July 2012: PSFA News Digest   (7/19/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Las Cruces/ Tours of New Centennial High School
    • Santa Fe/ Battle Over Proposed Changes for Teacher Evaluations
    • Santa Fe/ Protesters Rally Against Proposed Teacher-Evaluation System
    • Santa Fe/ Teacher Evaluations New Political Battle for Gov. Martinez and Legislators
    • Santa Fe/ Proposed GED Changes Raise Concerns
    • ABQ/ Scores Soar at Valley and Volcano Vista High Schools
    • Rio Rancho/ School Board Debates Need for Lobbyist
    • Santa Fe/ Santa Fe Indian School Wants Businesses on Property, Not Casino
    • Carlsbad/ County, City Pick Up Tab for School Officers
    • Portales/ OPINION: Students Should Consider Post-High School Education
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Obama Turns to 'Master Teachers' to Improve US Math Scores
    • Washington DC/ Big Suburban Districts Nationwide Form Network of Their Own
    • Baltimore MD/ High School Dropout Potential Could Be Determined In Middle School
    • New York NY/ edX: 1 Course, 150,000 Students
    • New York NY/ 12 Top Universities to Offer Free Classes Online
  • 18 July 2012: PSFA News Digest  (7/18/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Superintendent Brooks Questions Reform of Teacher Evaluations
    • Santa Fe/ SF School Board Will Stick with Five Seats
    • Santa Fe/ School Board Votes Against Adding Two Members, Agrees on Superintendent's Contract
    • Shiprock/ Low Interest in CCSD Bonds Saves Taxpayers More Than $500K
    • Taos/ Vote on Taos County Educational GRT
    • Santa Fe/ LETTER: Praise for Three
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ MI Study: Public Strong on Local Control of Schools
    • San Diego CA/ Push for Career-Technical Education Meets Parent Resistance
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: The Hard Bigotry of Poverty
  • 17 July 2012: PSFA News Digest  (7/17/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ 3 Schools, 3 Explanations for Grade Changes
    • Santa Fe/ Ruling Expected on State Funds for Private School Textbooks
    • Clovis/ Schools Seek Improvement for Underperforming Students
    • Raton/ 3 Raton Schools Show Improvement
    • Taos/ State School Grades: Taos Scores A-D
    • Farmington/ Test Deadline Creates Confusion for High School Seniors
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Value-Added Modeling - A Disservice to Education
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ More Than Half of States Now Have NCLB Waivers
    • Washington DC/ Education Innovation Clusters: Accelerating Innovation Through Regional Partnerships
    • New York NY/ Online Tests and Digital Divide: Will Poor Children Be Left Behind?
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Doublethink - The Creativity-Testing Conflict
  • 14-16 July 2012: PSFA News Digest  (7/16/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Schools Chief Joel Boyd Eager for Challenges
    • Rio Rancho / Lobbying, Legal Fees on Schools' Agenda
    • Santa Fe/ State Sen. Howie Morales: School Grading System Already Needs Overhaul
    • Clovis/ Schools to Take Steps to Improve College Readiness
    • Socorro/ Standard Based Assessment (SBA) Test Required to Graduate
    • Socorro/ Grades for Schools Don't Tell Whole Story
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: A-F Rewards Growth, Flunks the Status Quo
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Skandera in Loop on Nonunion Email List
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Catch-Phrases Won't Reform Schools
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: No More Fiddling with Education
    • ABQ/ OPINION: State Can't Explain Its Own School Grades
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Detroit MI/ Students Sue School District for Violating Their 'Right to Read'
    • Denver CO/ CU to File Brief on Behalf of State in Landmark Lobato School-Funding Case
    • New York NY/ Larger Class Sizes, Education Cuts Harm Children's Chance To Learn
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: How Underfunding Schools Really Hurts Kids
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Can a Test Capture 'College and Career Readiness' in Early Grades?
  • 13 July 2012: PSFA News Digest  (7/13/2012)
  • 12 July 2012: PSFA News Digest  (7/12/2012)
  • 11 July 2012: PSFA News Digest  (7/11/2012)
  • 10 July 2012: PSFA News Digest  (7/10/2012)
  • 9 July 2012: PSFA News Digest   (7/9/2012)
  • 6 July 2012: PSFA News Digest  (7/6/2012)
  • 5 July 2012: PSFA News Digest   (7/5/2012)
  • 4 July 2012: PSFA News Digest   (7/4/2012)
  • 3 July 2012: PSFA News Digest   (7/3/2012)
  • 30 June-2 July 2012: PSFA News Digest  (7/2/2012)
  • 29 June 2012: PSFA News Digest  (6/29/2012)
  • 28 June 2012: PSFA News Digest  (6/28/2012)
  • 27 June 2012: PSFA News Digest  (6/27/2012)
  • 26 June 2012: PSFA News Digest  (6/26/2012)
  • 23-25 June 2012: PSFA News Digest  (6/25/2012)
  • 22 June 2012: PSFA News Digest  (6/22/2012)
  • 21 June 2012: PSFA News Digest  (6/21/2012)
  • 20 June 2012: PSFA News Digest   (6/20/2012)
  • 19 June 2012: PSFA News Digest  (6/19/2012)
  • 16-18 June 2012: PSFA News Digest  (6/18/2012)
  • 15 June 2012: PSFA News Digest  (6/15/2012)
  • 14 June 2012: PSFA News Digest  (6/14/2012)
  • 13 June 2012: PSFA News Digest  (6/13/2012)
  • 12 June 2012: PSFA News Digest  (6/12/2012)
  • 9-11 June 2012: PSFA News Digest  (6/11/2012)
  • 8 June 2012: PSFA News Digest  (6/8/2012)
  • 7 June 2012: PSFA News Digest  (6/7/2012)
  • 6 June 2012: PSFA News Digest   (6/6/2012)
  • 5 June 2012: PSFA News Digest  (6/5/2012)
  • 2-4 June 2012: PSFA News Digest  (6/4/2012)
  • 1 June 2012: PSFA News Digest  (6/1/2012)
  • PSCOC NEWSLETTER - FY12  (5/31/2012)
  • 31 May 2012: PSFA Daily News Digest  (5/31/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Clovis/ School Budget Breakdown: A Look at the School District's $90 Million Budget
    • Dora/ Students' Book Earns Honorable Mention in National Scholastic Book Fairs Competition
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Seattle WA/ Stanford-Led Common Core Project for ELLs Previews New Resources
    • Cincinnati OH/ State and District Education Leaders Collaborate to Transform the Teaching Profession
    • San Francisco CA/ Some California Districts Experiment with New Approaches to Teacher Layoffs
    • Washington DC/ Students Press for Action on Immigration
    • New York NY/ Mindshapes Wins $4 million in Venture Funding to Develop Learning Games
    • San Antonio TX/ Proposal to Track Students with Radio Frequency Identification System Sparks Controversy
    • Denver CO/ EDITORIAL: Digital Literacy Begins with Parental Involvement
    • New York NY/ COLUMN: What Parents Say Testing is Doing to Their Kids
    • Dallas TX/ OPINION: Make School Reform Empowering, Not Punitive
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Career and Technical Education Might Motivate Students to Learn
    • New York NY OPINION: Can You Teach a Kid to be Bullyproof?
  • Copy of 30 May 2012: PSFA News Digest  (5/30/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Academy for Technology and the Classics [ATC] Buys Time with Lease Extension
    • Santa Fe/ PED Delays Decision on Splitting Central Consolidated School District
    • Farmington/ New Mexico Public Education Department Delays Decision on CCSD Split
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ New $2 Million Federal Pilot Program to Support State-Tribal Education Partnerships [STEP]
    • New York NY/ Wasting Time is New Divide in Digital Era
    • Washington DC/ How Much Will the Common Core Cost
    • Washington DC/ Common-Core Training for Principals on Increase
    • Chicago IL/ Grades Found to Give 'Early Warning' on ELL Dropout
    • Boston MA/ OPINION: Multiple Measures Matter-for Teachers, Too
  • 29 May 2012: PSFA News Digest  (5/29/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Farmington/ PED Translates Special Education Rights into Navajo
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ K-12 Scorecard Mixed as Legislatures Finish
    • Denver CO/ EDITORIAL: Expand West Denver Prep Charter School to North High School Campus
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Geniuses - Born or Made?
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Is Student Motivation the Missing Link in School Reform?
  • 26-28 May 2012: PSFA News Digest  (5/28/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Poverty Pervasive in Schools, but Educators Say It's a Challenge - Not an Excuse
    • Santa Fe/ Cycle of Generational Poverty: Education Yields to Survival
    • ABQ/ APS Board Approves $604 Million Budget
    • Farmington/ Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission Opposes NM School District Split
    • Santa Fe/ Merritt Barnwell: Teen's Doodle is Google's State Pick
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Small Schools Work, and That's No Game
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Learning Centers Serve Vital Educational Need
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ Experiments on Bronx School's Green Roof Taking Students Far
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: At Kramer Middle School, Stepping Into "Blended" Age
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Is Excessive Daytime Sleepiness the Cause of Learning and Behavior Problems in Children?
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Let's Use Technology To Support 'Creative Agency' Classrooms
    • Albany NY/ OPINION: Albany's Unkindest Cut of All
    • Charlottesville VA/ OPINION: Home is Where They Let You Live
  • 25 May 2012: PSFA News Digest  (5/25/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ PED Puts Southwest Secondary Charter School on Notice
    • ABQ/ East Mountains, Estancia Valley School District Dropout Rates Improve
    • Grants/ School Board to Decide on New Election Boundaries
    • Portales/ Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Program Aids ESL Students
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Crossways on Crossing Guards
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ College Comes to High Schools
    • Denver CO/ Parents Fight New School on Denver's North High Campus
    • New York NY/ OPINION: How Summer Increases Achievement Gap
    • Houston TX/ OPINION: Helping At-Risk Children Succeed in School, No Such Thing as Too Early
  • 24 May 2012: PSFA News Digest  (5/24/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Crownpoint/ US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan: Endless Possibility
    • Socorro/ School District Hopes for 'Miracle'
    • Deming/ Geoespacio: High School Geometry Teacher Omar Zamudio
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: Websites Help Keep Students Reading During Summer
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ NCES Report: US Students Get Serious About High School
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Online Foreign Language Program Replaces 3 Teachers
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Always Listen to the Billionaire
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Making Education Innovation Come to Life
  • 23 May 2012: PSFA News Digest  (5/23/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Taos/ School Board Approves $700,000 Vocational Building Renovation Work
    • ABQ/ New Del Norte High School Attracting Transfers
    • Socorro/ Schools Face Big Money Crunch
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS: City Crossing Guard Program Inefficient, Expensive
    • Las Cruces/ NMSU RASSI Summer Science Program Reaches Students with Disabilities
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Rules Proposed for $400 Million District Race to Top
    • Washington DC/ Race To The Top 2012 Invites School Districts To Compete
    • Denver CO/ Nonprofits Say Denver's Public Schools Still Don't Make the Grade
  • 22 May 2012: PSFA News Digest  (5/22/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ 200 Pupils Key to Charter School Aid
    • Moriarty/ Preschool Classes Consolidated for $150,000 Savings; Construction Question
    • Texico/ District Superintendent R.L. Richards Taking Position with Muleshoe Schools
    • Farmington/ Matthew Tso Put on Leave by Department of Dine Education
    • Santa Fe/ Teachers Who Inspire: Cybele Leverett and Marilyn Barnes, SF High School Educators
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Joplin MO/ President Obama's Joplin High School Commencement Speech
    • Washington DC/ Rules for School District Race to the Top Grant Program Unveiled
    • New York NY/ Public Money Finds Back Door to Private Schools
    • Washington DC/ Charter Sector Creates Grow-Your-Own Programs for Leaders
    • New York NY/ COLUMN: Bill Gates Puts Focus on Teaching
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste
  • 19-21 May 2012: PSFA News Digest  (5/21/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Farmington/ High School Site to Get Public Influence
    • Peñasco/ School District Announces $200,000 Gear Up Grant Award
    • ABQ/ Steady Success at South Valley Academy Charter School
    • Santa Fe/ Deadline Pressure on ATC Over Proposed Move
    • Magdalena/ Schools Face Spending Cuts
    • Logan/ 5 Staff Members Retire from Schools
    • ABQ/ Playworks: Recess Back at Some ABQ Schools and It's Better Than Ever
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: $200 Insta-Credit Case Hurts School Reforms
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: City Teens Lead Hooked on Books Project
    • Las Vegas/ OPINION: Bridge Academy Charter High School Fit Bill for Choice and Quality in Education
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: School Board Officials Confused About Superintendent Needs
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Educators Weigh e-Textbook Cost Comparisons
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Test Scores Plummet - So Florida Drops Passing Grade
    • New York NY/ OPINION: DIY - A Beacon to Silicon Valley, From a Start-Up for Children
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Will Technology Lead to Unbundling of Schools?
  • 18 May 2012: PSFA News Digest  (5/18/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Española/ Two Newest Charter Schools Still Homeless
    • Taos/ High School Graduation Rate Bests State Average
    • ABQ/ Former Principals Suing APS for Discrimination Against Women
    • Farmington/ NM Education Secretary-designate Hanna Skandera Hears CCSD-Split Arguments
    • Raton/ School District Dealing with Tight Budget, Teachers Want More Involvement in Planning
    • Farmington/ Piedra Vista High School to Get Second Entrance
    • Santa Fe/ Teachers Who Inspire: English Instructor Rosemarie Griego at the Academy at Larragoite
    • Crownpoint/ US Education Secretary Duncan: Commencement Address at Navajo Technical College
    • Magdalena/ High School Auto Techs Gear Up for Work Force
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Denver CO/ Child Literacy Overhaul Now Law
    • Washington DC/ New Research on Multitasking Points to Role of Self-Control
    • Denver CO/ OPINION: Colorado's READ Act Big Step for Literacy
  • 17 May 2012: PSFA News Digest  (5/17/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ K-3 Plus: New Law Gives Students Boost
    • ABQ/ Course Credit for High School Diploma Costs a Weekend and $200
    • Santa Fe/ NM Youth Conservation Corps Grants Promote 39 Statewide Projects
    • Santa Fe/ Teachers Who Inspire: El Dorado Music Teacher Janine Sammeth
    • Clovis/ Extended Learning at Clovis Community College Offers Kid's College
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Are Common Core Standards the Answer or the Question?
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ New College Board President David Coleman Wants SAT to Reflect Common Core
    • Baltimore MD/ Chronically Absent Students Skew School Data, Study Finds, Citing Parents' Role
    • New York NY/ Johns Hopkins Study: 7.5 Million Students Miss Month of School Each Year
    • New York NY/ COLUMN: Winning Essays-Teenagers on Bullying
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Dream Bigger
    • Denver CO/ OPINION: Subsidized Preschool in Denver is Key
  • 16 May 2012: PSFA News Digest  (5/16/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ School Board Cuts Contract Costs
    • Taos/ 2 Charter Schools Receive Intel Grants
    • Shiprock/ Shiprock Associated Schools Inc. Executive Director Leo Johnson Placed on Leave
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Keep Tweaking School Budgets
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ NCLB Waiver Plans Push School Grading Systems
    • Washington DC/ Reading In American Schools: Will Common Core State Standards Improve Literacy?
    • Washington DC/ National Report: Full-Time Virtual Education Lacking Accountability
    • New York NY/ David Coleman, Backer of Common Core Chosen to Lead College Board
  • 15 May 2012: PSFA News Digest  (5/15/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Graduation Changes to Affect Class of 2013
    • Shiprock/ New Mexico PED to Hear Opinions on Proposed Split of CCSD
    • ABQ/ APS Plans Meetings on Bullying
    • Portales/ RoboRAVE: Robotics Contest Inspires Students to Further Education
    • Las Vegas/ Highlands School of Education Certified
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ New Advocacy Groups Shaking Up Education Field
    • San Francisco CA/ OPINION: A New Dawn for STEM Education
  • 12-14 May 2012: PSFA News Digest  (5/14/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Confusion Over Grades for Schools
    • Raton/ Good Showing for Area High School Graduation Rates
    • ABQ/ PED's Reply to APS Called 'Astonishing'
    • Socorro/ School District's Interim Superintendent Vanetta Perry Reflects on SCSD
    • Santa Fe/ School Board Ready to Recruit Superintendent
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Too Few Kids Graduate from High School
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Survey Details Wish List for New School Superintendent
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Here's Why Our Schools are Failing
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Study: Most ELLs in Districts That Fall Short of Federal Goals
  • 11 May 2012: PSFA News Digest   (5/11/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Taos/ School District Construction Projects Re-evaluated as Funds Dwindle
    • Gallup/ Gallup-McKinley School Board Votes to Close 3 Middle Schools
    • Farmington/ School District: School Lines to be Redrawn
    • Deming/ School District Will Cut Staff, Increase Classroom Size
    • Española/ Schools to Try Again for Tax Hike for School Improvements
    • ABQ/ Parents Balk At Merger of Roosevelt Middle and A. Montoya Elementary Schools
    • Tularosa/ School Board Approves 3 Fund Applications
    • Santa Fe/ NAEP Assessment: Science Scores Stay Flat in NM
    • ABQ/ APS High School Conferences in Spring May End
    • Clovis/ Marshall Middle School Students, Staff Take Steps Against Bullying
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Graduation Rates Show APS on Right Track
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS

    • Washington DC/ Most 8th Graders Fall Short on NAEP Science Test [Education Week]
    • Washington DC/ Release by US Department of Education on 2011 NAEP Science Assessment Results
    • Washington DC/ Nation's Science Test: Students Show Low Proficiency [Huffington Post]
    • New York NY/ NAEP: Students Make Gains in Testing on Science [NY Times]
    • New York NY/ Low Scores on Science Test Revive Concerns [Wall Street Journal]
    • Washington DC/ National Science Test Shows Only Slight Improvement [Washington Post]
    • Washington DC/ Schools Try to Pull Out of Science Slump [USA Today]
    • Washington DC/ Rural School Districts Struggling to Survive in Era of Dwindling Resources
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: How to Learn in the 21st Century
  • 10 May 2012: PSFA News Digest  (5/10/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Gallup/ Gallup-McKinley School Board to Gather for Emergency Budget Meeting
    • ABQ/ APS Seeking Consistency in Family Involvement
    • Farmington/ Farmington & Piedra Vista High School Graduates Collect Millions in Scholarships
    • Carlsbad/ Mosaic Company Forms Engineering Partnership with Carlsbad High School
    • Taos/ Roots and Wings Community School: Charter Students Introduce Book, Film in Taos
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Time to Speak Out on School Budget
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ Getting Teaching License May Soon Include New Test-Can Hopefuls Handle Classroom?
    • Denver CO/ Colorado 3rd-Graders' Reading Ability Holding Steady
    • Washington DC/ Machines Shouldn't Grade Student Writing-Yet
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Schooling for a Diverse Tomorrow
  • 9 May 2012: PSFA News Digest   (5/9/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Taos/ School Board Approves 2 Construction Projects
    • Los Lunas/ School Board to Vote on Closing Daniel Fernandez Elementary School
    • ABQ/ Albuquerque Teachers Federation: No Confidence Vote for Skandera
    • ABQ/ Union to Fight APS Policy Change on Paying APS Workers While in Legislature
    • Las Cruces/ School District Shares $360 Million Preliminary Budget Plan
    • Raton/ NM Youth Conservation Corps: $3.9 Million State Funding for Youth-Job Projects
    • Socorro/ New $1.5 Million Macey Family Children's Center Opens
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ FCC to Tell Phone Companies to Follow Low-Price Rule for Schools
    • New York NY/ 'Common Core' School-Standards Pushback
    • New York NY/ INTERVIEW: Dr. Russell Rumberger on Reaching College Graduation Goals, Fixing High School Dropout Problem
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: It's Time for a New Kind of High School
  • 8 May 2012: PSFA News Digest  (5/8/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Las Cruces/ LCPS Superintendent Stan Rounds to Discuss 2013 Budget
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Redesign of Schools Just Beginning
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ School Discounts Mandated by Federal E-Rate Program Largely Neglected
    • Denver CO/ Colorado High Schools Given High Marks in National Ranking
    • Washington DC/ Best High Schools in America 2012: US News & World Report Rankings
    • New York NY/ Getting Lessons on Water by Designing a Playground
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Publishing Giant Pearson's Expanding Role in Education
  • 5-7 May 2012: PSFA News Digest  (5/7/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ NM Permanent Funds Rank High
    • ABQ/ High School Graduation Rates Decline Under New Formula
    • ABQ/ High School Graduation Rates for NM Drop
    • Santa Fe/ 2011 High School Graduation Rate Rises in Santa Fe
    • Santa Fe/ High School Graduation Rate Up Slightly in Santa Fe
    • Rio Rancho/ High School Graduation Rate Dips Slightly
    • Clovis/ Average NM High School Graduation Rate Drops
    • Deming/ NM Class of 2011 High School Graduation Rate is 63%
    • Rio Rancho/ $8.5 Million Cash Balance Allows District to Hire Teachers
    • Moriarty/ Moriarty-Edgewood School District Faces $1.24 Million Shortfall
    • Socorro/ Tight Budget for 2013 School Year
    • Santa Fe/ English as a Second Language Students: ESL Program Boosts Opportunities
    • ABQ/ Albuquerque Academy Team Wins 2012 National High School Mock Trial Championship
    • ABQ/ RoboRAVE International: One Serious Robot Party
    • Taos/ Students from Vista Grande High School Speak at National Expeditionary Learning Conference
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Districts Enact Own Education Reforms
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Citizen Schools Program Motivates Students to Succeed
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Individual US. Schools Take Part in PISA Pilot
  • 4 May 2012: PSFA News Digest   (5/4/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Taos/ High School Instructor Joe Torres: Life-Threatening Situation at Vocational Shops
    • Tucumcari/ State Secretary of Education-Designate Hanna Skandera Tours Elementary School
    • Española / Schools Facing $2 Million Deficit
    • Acoma/ Grants/Cibola County School Board Changes to 1-Year Employee Contracts
    • Aztec/ Vista Nueva Alternative High School Students Help Community with Gardening Skills
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: NM Teacher Tom Tracey is Old School, Not Old Hat
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Aurora CO/ Pathway Program Puts Students on Career Track
    • New York NY/ NYC Ed-Tech Meetup: Numbers Grow but Same Message
  • 3 May 2012: PSFA News Digest  (5/3/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Bernalillo/ 'Bold Step' To Improve Placitas Elementary School
    • ABQ/ 2 APS Employees Intend to Keep State House Seats
    • Santa Fe/ Teachers Criticize Proposed New Superintendent Pay Options
    • Farmington/ Schools May Bring Back Honors Courses After More Than 20 Years
    • Santa Fe/ Partners in Education: Inspirational Teachers Honored for Excellence in Classroom
    • ABQ/ D.C. Education Conference 'Energizing' for NM Teacher
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Teacher Pay Should Reflect Student Results
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: Southeast NM Music Educators Association Large Group Contest
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ $24.4 Million in 73 Federal Grants to Teacher Training Programs for English Learners
    • Cambridge MA/ Harvard and MIT to Offer Online Courses: 1st Step in Lowering College Costs?
    • New York NY/ Harvard and M.I.T. Team Up to Offer Free Online Courses
    • Denver CO/ OPINION: Trying Not to Be Replaced by Robots
    Correction of 5/2/12 New Mexican article: The Gadsden Independent School District superintendent's salary is $130, 000 and the district serves more than 14,000 students.
  • 2 May 2012: PSFA News Digest   (5/2/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Desert Academy Buys New Campus
    • ABQ/ No Salary for APS Teacher-Legislators
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Board Votes to Trim Superintendent's Top Salary to $180K
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Magnet Schools Re-Imagined as School Choice Option
    • Washington DC/ Language Demands to Grow for ELLs Under New Standard
    • Washington DC/ Free Internet Lessons Challenge Textbook Market for Public Schools
    • Washington DC/ EDITORIAL: New Orleans Schools Rebound
  • 1 May 2012: PSFA News Digest   (5/1/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Tijeras/ East Mountain Middle and Elementary School Merge into K-8
    • ABQ/ Transformation of Emerson Elementary School to Aid English Learners
    • Eagle Nest/ $7,000 Grant to Fund Aquaponics Garden at Eagle Nest Elementary/Middle School
    • Santa Fe/ Dolores Valdez de Pong Retires After 37-Year Teaching Career
    • ABQ/ What Do APS Teachers Earn?
    • ABQ/ APS Report Cards Being Sent Out
    • ABQ/ Volcano Vista, Academy Teens Prepare for National High School Mock Trial Championship
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Common Standards Ignite Debate Over Student 'Prereading' Exercises
    • Washington DC/ Big Shifts Anticipated for Math Instruction [APS Featured]
    • Washington DC/ Common Core Standards Drive Wedge in Education Circles
  • 28-30 April 2012: PSFA News Digest  (4/30/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ APS Chief: Grant Management A 'Weakness'
    • Santa Fe/ Desert Academy Ready to Relocate
    • Santa Fe/ Taking Heat for Long Lines, SFPS Extends Registration
    • Santa Fe/ Dr. Veronica Garcia to Lead Voices for Children
    • Taos/ Taos Academy Introduces GROW Project
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Superintendent Search Needs Refining
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Students' Amazing Accomplishments
    • ABQ/ OPINION: APS Prepared Me for Big League
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Social Entrepreneurs Try to Offer Solutions to K-12 Problems
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: The Digital Transformation of Education: A 21st Century Imperative
  • 27 April 2012: PSFA News Digest  (4/27/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ ATC Move to Kaune Site Delayed
    • Farmington/ School District Awaits Approval for Redrawn District Map
    • Portales/ AdvancED: Portales Municipal Schools Accreditation Successful
    • Magdalena / Students Gaining Confidence, Skills
    • Estancia/ New Superintendent Audie Brown to Start in July
    • Grants/ School Board Discusses Administrators' Contracts
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Waivers to Widen Test Menu: Accountability Moving Beyond Math, Reading Tests
    • Taylor Mill KY/ Reading on Science, Social Studies Teachers' Agendas
    • Miami FL/ With GOP's Ear, Senator Marco Rubio Pushes DREAM Act Proposal
    • Seattle WA/ COLUMN: The Reading Renaissance
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Pearson and How 2012 Standardized Tests Were Designed
  • 26 April 2012: PSFA News Digest  (4/26/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Socorro/ High School Improving Slowly
    • ABQ/ APS Report Cards Not Sent Out
    • Rio Rancho/ Intel Misses NM Goal For 2011 Hiring, Will Pay County $100,000 for Education
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Governor Lays Strong Literacy Groundwork
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Intel Non-Hiring an Education Indicator
    • Farmington/ EDITORIAL: iPads Great Tools for Special Needs Teaching
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Denver CO/ Child Literacy Bill Altered in Committee
    • Cambridge MA/ New Education Videos from MIT, Khan Academy, and TED
  • 25 April 2012: PSFA News Digest  (4/25/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Emerson Elementary School: APS Asks Teachers to Reapply or Teach Elsewhere
    • ABQ/ School Board Member Kathy Korte: Use of APS Bullying Policy Uneven
    • Magdalena/ Board of Education Cautious about Proposed Presentation by Young Mothers
    • Santa Fe/ Board Mulls $190,000 Salary for New Superintendent
    • Los Alamos/ Jordan Medlock: Brain-Scan Program Wins State Supercomputing Challenge Prize
    • Silver City/ OPINION: Education Replaces Housing as Bubble Machine
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    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Concern Abounds Over Teachers' Preparedness for Common Core Standards
    • Atlanta GA/ Math Teaching Often Doesn't Fit with New Standards
    • Detroit MI/ Garden Collaborative Program: Hands-On Agricultural Learning at 45 Detroit Public Schools
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Can a Charter School Be a Neighborhood School?
  • 24 April 2012: PSFA News Digest  (4/24/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ "American Graduate: Let's Make it Happen" PBS Forum Lets Teachers Air Opinions
    • Raton/ State Readies Plan for Reading Improvement, Website to Aid Teachers & Parents
    • Las Cruces/ NMSU Educators' Job Fair Brings in School Districts From Different States
    • ABQ/ Honoring Rudolfo Anaya: UNM Students, Professors Hold in 'Bless Me, Ultima' Marathon
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Obama Administration Names 78 Schools First-Ever US Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools
    • Washington DC/ Advocates Worry Implementation Could Derail Common Core
    • Washington DC/ "Turnaround Arts Initiative" Taps Arts, Celebrities to Help Turn Around Schools
    • Washington DC / Actors, Artists Aim to Turn Around Failing Schools
    • Washington DC/ Study: Cyberbullying Different from Physical Bullying
    • Scottsdale AZ/ OPINION: Education Innovation Summit Heats Up in the Desert
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: ExoPC and Panama Team Up to Bring 'Tablet Desks' To Students
  • 21-23 April 2012: PSFA News Digest   (4/23/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Taos/ Living Designs Group: Local Business Begins Oversight of School Construction Projects
    • Rio Rancho/ Cleveland High School Grows Green to Make Green
    • Deming/ Virtual High School Expands to DHS, Students on Global Learning Curve
    • Santa Fe/ School Board Moves Forward with Superintendent-Search
    • Socorro/ New Schools Superintendent Randall Earwood Pays Visit
    • ABQ/ Griegos Elementary School Principal Tom Graham Retiring
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: A DREAM Act That Falls Short
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ 2012 Promise Neighborhoods Competition Opens, $60 Million Available
    • Washington DC/ New $60 Million in Promise Neighborhoods Grants Announced
    • New York NY/ New Report Chronicles Latino College Completion by State
    • Washington DC/ Career Education Plan Unlikely to Bear Fruit in Less Than Year
    • New York NY/ Facing a Robo-Grader? Just Keep Obfuscating Mellifluously
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Teach the Books, Touch the Heart
  • 20 April 2012: PSFA News Digest   (4/20/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ NM "Reads to Lead" Initiative: $8.5 Million Toward Literacy
    • ABQ/ Governor Martinez Announces "New Mexico Reads to Lead" Education Initiative
    • Santa Fe/ Quarterly Auction of NM Oil and Gas Leases Brings $33+ Million
    • Las Cruces/ Proposed Early College High School Would Prep Future Doctors, Nurses
    • Grants/ Gallup HS Parent Advisory Committee & DA Lemuel Martinez Fight Internet Crime
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Blueprint to Transform Career and Technical Education
    • Washington DC/ Obama Administration Seeks to Remake Career-Tech Programs
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Georgetown Frosh Finds High School Left Him Unprepared
  • 19 April 2012: PSFA News Digest  (4/19/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ El Dorado Community School Students Return to 'Whole Different School' After Remodel
    • Santa Fe/ Outsourced: NM Sending Millions of Public Education Contract Money Out of State
    • ABQ/ Quantum Opportunities Program: Academic Turnaround
    • ABQ/ NM Teachers Discuss High School Dropout Crisis in PBS Special
    • ABQ/ AP Report: Hundreds of APS Kids Handcuffed
    • Portales/ Local Officials Weigh in on School Discipline
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: ATC Back on Its Feet
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Critical Thinking Essential to Education
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Together for Tomorrow School Improvement Challenge Opens
    • Cottage Grove OR/ Flattening the School Walls
    • Washington DC/ Brookings Institution Study Links Zoning to Education Disparities
  • 18 April 2012: PSFA News Digest  (4/18/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Board Approves ATC Move to Kaune Site, Lease Negotiations OK, Restores Charter
    • Las Cruces/ State Funding of $8.5 Million for 54 Reading Coaches for Young Students
    • Clovis/ Municipal Schools Board of Education Report
    • ABQ/ Computer Glitches Delay APS Report Cards
    • Kirtland/ CCSD Board Approves Response to State, Split District
    • Santa Fe/ Owner of St. Catherine's Indian School Suing City
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: APS Employees Can't Serve Two Masters
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Teaching More Than High IQs and Good Intentions
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Chapel Hill NC/ Catastrophic Brain Injuries Hit All-Time High in H.S. Football
    • Washington DC/ Bullying Not a Rite of Passage-Theme of White House LGBT Safe Schools Conference
    • Denver CO/ More Colorado Districts on Board with School-Bus Ads
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Conditions Are Perfect For Bilingual Education - So Why Is It In Decline?
  • 17 April 2012: PSFA News Digest  (4/17/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Plans to Build New K-8 School in Tierra Contenta
    • Clovis/ New and Renovated Schools Going Green
    • Raton/ School District Preparing for Less State Funds, No Layoffs Planned
    • Alamogordo/ NAACP Honors Teachers
    • Santa Fe/ No Senate Hearing for Education Chief Hanna Skandera Until at Least 2013
    • Mora/ District COO Roger A. Gonzales Loses School Business License
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ In Schools Cut by the City Ax, Students Bleed
  • 14-16 April 2012: PSFA News Digest  (4/16/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Academy for Technology and the Classics Charter School Wants to Move
    • Rio Rancho/ School Board Sees Redistricting Options
    • Bloomfield/ iPads Help Bloomfield Special Education Students Learn
    • Santa Fe/ New Parent Involvement Committee Aims at Involving Parents at Schools
    • ABQ/ Family & Community Health Clinic Proposed for Atrisco Heritage Academy High School
    • ABQ/ NM Teacher Town Hall Brings in PBS News-Hour Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez
    • Corrales/ Teacher National Board Certification: Apply & Reflect
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: New Graduation Math = School Accountability
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: New Teacher Evaluations Key to School Reform
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: APS On Track with Common Standards
    • Floyd/ OBITUARY: Music Teacher and Educator Carol Lang
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ Making Education Brain Science
    • Washington DC/ School Turnaround Push Still a Work in Progress
    • Washington DC/ Community Action Grows Organically at Hispanic Summit
    • Fairfax VA/ County Considers Creating Virtual High School
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Educating the Next Steve Jobs
    • Flagstaff AZ/ OBITUARY: Prominent Navajo Educator Ruth Roessel
  • 13 April 2012: PSFA News Digest   (4/13/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Rio Rancho/ Colinas del Norte Elementary School's Cafeteria Expansion OK'd
    • ABQ/ Ambitious To-Do List for APS Approved
    • Farmington/ Municipal School District Board of Education Approves $67.4 Million Budget
    • Grants/ Committee Approves $277,000 Indian Education Funding Grant Application
    • Española/ Feds: Rio Rancho Nonprofit Botched $7.6 million Teacher Incentive Grant
    • Santa Fe/ Run Amok: PED Declares Alleged Forgery Case Closed
    • Raton/ School Board Delays High School Closed-Campus Decision
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: State Plan Will Grow Pre-K the Right Way
    • Española/ EDITORIAL: Teacher Incentive Fund Required Much Stricter Oversight
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ GAO Criticizes Education Department on School Improvement Grant Program
    • Boston MA/ Entering the Job Market? Your Education Matters More Than Ever
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: TEACH and the Future of Teaching Profession
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: The Newest Problem with High School Graduation Rates
  • 12 April 2012 PSFA News Digest   (4/12/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Gov. Martinez Moves on Teacher Reviews
    • Rio Rancho/ Schools Project Balanced Budget
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: System Should Streamline Finding Substitute Teachers
    • ABQ/ OPINION: NM Schools Need to Address Bullying
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: School Re-Formed, the Maybe-Not-So-Wild-World of Waldorf Education
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Feds Back Off on Easing Special Education Funding Restriction
    • Washington DC/ Federal Report: No Obituary Needed for Arts Education
    • New York NY/ Questions Abound as Districts Shift to Merit Pay for Teachers
    • Phoenix AZ/ Sean Arce, Director of Embattled Arizona Ethnic Studies Program, Ousted Despite Protests
    • Baton Rouge LA/ School Vouchers Gain Ground
  • 11 April 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (4/11/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ APS Looks at Political Pay, Leave
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Mulls 2012-2013 Budget Numbers
    • Santa Fe/ State in Midst of Curriculum Transition to Common Core Standards
    • Santa Fe/ 19-Member School Superintendent-Search Advisory Panel Named
    • ABQ/ CDC Report: MS Has Highest US Teen Birth Rate, NM 2nd Highest
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: An 'A' for Compromise
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Asbury Park NJ/ Teaching Software Flooding into New Jersey Classrooms
    • New York NY/ High School, Only Shorter
    • New York NY/ OPINION: How Machine-Based Tutoring Could Disrupt Human Tutors
    • Denver CO/ OPINION: DPS Weeding Out Experienced Teachers
  • 10 April 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (4/10/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Moves to Buy Site Owned by Gerald Peters for New Agua Fría School
    • Santa Fe/ Agua Fria Elementary Students To Get New School
    • Santa Fe/ State Seeking $25 Million in Federal Preschool Funding
    • ABQ/ APS eCADEMY: Online Courses Becoming a Hit
    • Grants/ Schools Becoming "Virtual" Classrooms
    • ABQ/ APS Superintendent to Improve District Following A-F Grades
    • Rio Rancho/ School District Budget Won't Require Cuts
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: New Football Stadium Reason for All to Cheer
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New Brunswick NJ/ NIEER Study Points to Drop in Per-Pupil Spending for Pre-K
    • New York NY/ NIEER Report: Mississippi and 10 Other States Do Not Fund Pre-Kindergarten
    • Washington DC/ 2012 Race to the Top Fund Continues Investments in Early Education Programs
    • Washington DC/ New $133 Million Available for Race to Top Early Learning Grants
    • Denver CO/ Colorado to Seek $30 million in Federal Funds for Early-Learning Programs
    • New York NY/ Keeping Students' Mental Health Care Out of the ER
  • 7-9 April 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (4/9/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Common Core Standards Usher in Teaching Reforms
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Board Limits Size of Elementary School Enrollment
    • ABQ/ APS to Break Ground on New Football Stadium
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: School Racial Equity Not Only Up to District
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Program Teaches Job-Search Skills
    • ABQ/ OPINION: High-Stakes Tests Don't Serve Students or Teachers
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Parental Engagement Proves No Easy Goal
    • Denver CO/ Good Budget News is Relative for Colorado Schools
    • Washington DC/ DU The Math: Video Game Competition with STEM Focus Launched
    • Palo Alto CA/ OPINION: Stanford Education Experiment Could Change Higher Learning Forever
  • 6 April 2012: PSFA News Digest   (4/6/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Prewitt/ Baca/Dlo' Ay Azhi Community School Recognized for Going Green
    • Farmington/ Schools Receive $6.75 Million Loan for New Laptops
    • ABQ/ Grading of Some NM Schools May Change
    • Kirtland/ CCSD Split: Public Hearing Set for May 16 at San Juan College
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: CYFD Hotline Helps Keep All NM Children #SAFE
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Helping All Kids 'Grow as They Go'
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Portland OR/ Teachers Overworked, Underpaid, Arbitrator Rules $1.5 Million Restitution
    • Boise ID/ INTERVIEW: Education Chief Tom Luna, Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction
    • Washington DC/ Startup Minerva Project Seeks To Rival Ivy League
    • Washington DC/ Sydney University Research: Too Much Homework Can Lower Test Scores
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: The Homework Trap and What to Do About It
  • 5 April 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (4/5/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Las Cruces/ Valley View Elementary School Staff Ousted in School Turnaround Plan
    • ABQ/ APS: Get Ready for Lower Grad Rates
    • ABQ/ APS Board Approves New District Map
    • Farmington/ NM Education Department to Host Public Meeting on Proposed CCSD Split
    • Santa Fe/ School Board Approves Contract for Superintendent Search
    • Socorro/ School Board Picks New Superintendent: Randall K. Earwood
    • ABQ/ Protesters Decry Bullying Efforts
    • ABQ/ Student: 'I am a 5th grader and a Victim of Bullying'
    • ABQ/ APS Board Reconsiders Graduation Speaker Ban
    • Socorro/ 2012 NM State Science and Engineering Fair: Local Students Bring Home Awards
    NATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ Brooklyn Brainery: The Make-Your-Own Schoolhouse
    • Philadelphia PA/ New Literacy Standards Could Challenge Even Passionate Readers
    • Washington DC/ Training of Out-of-School Staff Debated
  • 4 April 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (4/4/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Farmington/ Red Mesa Buses Resume Utah Routes
    • Santa Fe/ School Board Pushes Spring Break-2013 to April
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Libraries Enrich Our Community
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Education of Latinos Should Matter to All
    NATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ URL: Full NCES Report on Arts Education in US Public Schools
    • Washington DC/ Announcing Revitalized StopBullying.gov
    • Washington DC/ States Gird to Report Revised Graduation Rates
    • Tucson AZ/ Mexican American Studies Director Sean Arce Wins National Zinn Education Award
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: How to Tell When School Turnaround Turns the Corner
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: NEA Report Links Arts Engagement to Academic, Civic Benefits
  • 3 April: PSFA News Digest  (4/3/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Probe Into West Side Elementary School Testing Irregularities Closed
    • Santa Fe/ ATC Seeks OK for Kaune Site as Firm Prepares for Legal Fight
    • Springer/ School District to Drug -Test Students: Community Concern Prompts New Policy
    • ABQ/ Cutbacks To Affect Older Students
    • Rio Rancho/ Student Daniel Washington Engineers a Bright Future
    NATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Federal Dysfunction Sets Stiff Challenge for State K-12 Chiefs
    • Claremont CA/ Giving Women the Access Code
    • New York NY/ University of Wisconsin Research: Longevity Up in US, but Education Creates Disparity
    • Washington DC/ US Education Report: Elementary School Arts Classes Reduced
    • Washington DC/ Benefits of Being Bilingual: Two Languages May Delay Alzheimer's Disease
    • Denver CO/ EDITORIAL: Mixed Results in DPS Efforts
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Arts Instruction Still Widely Available, But Disparities Persist
  • 31 March-2 April 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (4/2/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Disturbing Numbers at APS
    • Farmington/ 2 Preschools Target Special Needs
    • ABQ/ César Chávez: Then & Now
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Let's Just Ban Hope From Graduation, Too
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: A Super Search Gets Under Way
    • Rio Rancho/ COLUMN: Help Our Young Navigate World
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Book Offers Help on Homework
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Tears and Wisdom as Teacher Retires
    NATIONAL NEWS
    • Denver/ Donnell-Kay Foundation Study: Public Schools Can Improve Through Charter Schools
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: New Approach to School Turnarounds (or 'Old Dogs CAN Learn New Tricks')
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Math Matters, Even for Little Kids
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Think NCLB Waivers Mean an End to SES? Think Again
  • 30 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/30/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Las Cruces/ High School to Undergo Major Renovation Project
    • ABQ/ APS May Ban All Political Speeches at High School Graduations
    NATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ School Improvement Grant Effort Posts Promising Early Results
    • Washington DC/ Access to Teacher Evaluations Divides Advocates
    • Pharr TX/ 'You Didn't Graduate from High School? Start College Today!'
    • Tucson AZ/ OPINION: Tucson School District Tries to Block Annual Cesar Chavez Celebration
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: SIG, A Preliminary Progress Report on Lowest-Performing Schools
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Proven Programs Don't Implement Themselves
  • 29 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/29/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ District's Annual "Quality of Education" Survey Results: Parents Like APS
    • Socorro/ Annual "Quality of Education" Survey Results: Schools Get Parent Approval
    • Clovis/ Standard Based Assessments: Students Immersed in Testing
    • Silver City/ Cobre Board of Education Reopens Search for School Superintendent
    • ABQ/ Bilingual Science Teacher Natali Barreto-Baca: A Love of Learning
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: Teachers Transition to Common Core State Standards
    NATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Head Start Agencies Sue Over Obama's Re-competition Rules
    • Palo Alto CA/ Start-Ups Try to Crack Education Market
    • Dallas TX/ Study: Teachers Can Influence Colleagues, Change Schools
    • New York NY/ Bringing Up an E-Reader
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Digital Natives, or Digital Citizens?
  • 28 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/28/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Grants/ Dual Enrollment Paves Road to Great Opportunities
    • Farmington/ AZ Red Mesa Denies School Bus Service to NM Students
    NATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ 2012 Funds Now Available for Investing in Innovation (i3) Scale-up & Validation Grants
    • Washington DC/ More States Retaining Struggling 3rd Graders
    • Denver CO/ EDITORIAL: Early Literacy Key to Learning
    • New York NY/ EDITORIAL: A Dream Act Without the Dream
    • New York NY/ OPINION: An Education Success in Harlem
  • 27 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/27/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Farmington/ New Mexico Proficiency Exam Could Lower High School Graduation Rates
    • Santa Fe/ NM Earns Nearly $5 Million from Oil & Gas Lease Sales
    • Taos/ Daniels Fund Grants $761,000 to NM Nonprofits
    • Cuba/ Investigation into 'Padded' School Bus Routes
    • Socorro/ School Superintendent Candidate Forum Poorly Attended
    NATIONAL NEWS
    • Westminster CO/'Competency' Approach Challenges Colorado District
    • New Haven CT/ Paideia Method, Socratic Learning Techniques, Aims To Close Achievement Gap
    • New York NY/ Judged a Failure by the Data, a School Succeeds Where It Counts
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: US Education Department to Split Race to Top Money
  • 24-26 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (3/26/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ New Mexico's Students: Their Future, Our Commitment
    • Santa Fe/ Middle School Fear Factor: Educators & Students Say Campuses Not Dangerous
    • Grants/ Representative W. Ken Martinez Presents State Education Priorities
    • Moriarty/ School Board OKs Virtual Learning Program
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Public Deserves Facts In PED Testing Probe
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Reform Must Happen to Move NM Ahead
    • ABQ/ OPINION: APS Shows Few Signs of Moving Forward
    • ABQ/ OPINION: School Reform Not Inclusive
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Better Teachers are Key to Better Students
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Parents Essential to Learning Process
    • Las Cruces/ OPINION: Agriculture Needs Infusion of Young Farmers
    NATIONAL NEWS
    • Denver CO/ Walton Family Foundation Awards Denver $8M for School Reform
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Newspapers Shouldn't Publish Teacher Ratings
  • 23 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/23/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Roswell/ Gov. Martinez Thanks President Obama for Help on Education
    • Rio Rancho/ School Board Seeks Lower Work Costs for Colinas del Norte Elementary
    • Santa Fe/ ATC Charter School Board Backs Move to Kaune Elementary Site
    • Santa Fe/ St. Catherine Campus Eyed in Foreclosure
    • Socorro/ County-Charter School Partnership Moving Forward
    • Santa Fe/ Search Firms for School Superintendent Narrowed
    • ABQ/ Superintendent Brooks Expresses Concerns about PED Investigation
    • Raton/ More Input Awaited on Proposed High School Closed-Campus
    NATIONAL NEWS
    • Houston TX/ 'League of Innovative Schools' Seeks New Ideas, Solutions
    • Washington DC/ Virtual Education Companies Face Increasing Scrutiny
    • Sacramento CA/ Dual-Language Programs Growing in Popularity Across California
    • New York NY/ COLUMN: The New American Academy, The Relationship School
  • 22 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/22/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Unit Value for School District Funding Increased
    • Santa Fe/ NM School Funding Factor Increases for Next Year
    • Santa Fe/ School Board Member Seeks Limits on School Size
    • Santa Fe/ Most NM Education Commission Candidates Running Unopposed
    NATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ States Take Legislative Actions to Expand Virtual Education
    • Washington DC/ Districts Gear Up for Shift to Use of Nonfiction
    • New York NY/ European Digital Skills Shortage Looms
  • 21 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/21/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Demolition Work Begins Again at Santa Fe Indian School
    • Santa Fe/ NM High School Students Must Pass New Exam to Receive Diploma
    • Kirtland/ Few Changes on Central Consolidated School District Board
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: APS Reproductive Panel Unproductive for Public
    NATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Center on Education Policy: School Improvement Grant Report Card
    • Sacramento CA/ California Tackles Remediation Challenge
    • Washington DC/ TED Launches TED-Ed with Mission to Spread Ideas
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Khan Academy; Good, Bad, or Ugly?
  • 20 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/20/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Colinas del Norte Elementary School Cafeteria Expansion Delayed
    • ABQ/ Graduation Rates Only Part of Story
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: For Reform in Education, Devil Is in the Details
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Panel: Schools' Failings Could Threaten Economy and National Security
    • Washington DC/ TRANSCRIPT: Working in the Nation's Lowest-Performing Schools
    • Washington DC/ AT&T Makes $250 Million Pledge to Fund Education Programs
    • New York NY/ Students Critique Blended Learning Experiences
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Teacher-I Dare You to Measure My 'Value'
  • 17-19 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/19/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Middle Schools to Keep Current Structures
    • ABQ/ Report Shows Declines in Arizona, NM High School Graduation Rates
    • ABQ/ Reproductive Education Task Force Feud Costly
    • ABQ/ Fired Up: Rudolfo Anaya on Mexican-American Studies and Book-Burning
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Students Set the Example
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Shaming of Student Egregious, Indefensible
    NATIONAL NEWS
    • Hagerstown MD/ Report: US Makes Modest Gains in Graduation Rate
    • Tucson AZ/Racial Lens Used to Cull Curriculum in Arizona
    • Washington DC/ Blended Learning Mixes it Up
    • Washington DC/ E-Schools Put Specific Measures for Success in Place
    • New York NY/ Why Bilinguals Are Smarter
    • Los Angeles CA/ About 19,500 Public School Teachers in CA Given Pink Slips
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Education by the Numbers
    • New York NY/ OPINION: In Defense of Facing Reality
    • New York NY/ OPINION: How Charter Schools Can Hurt
  • 16 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/16/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Deming/ Bell Elementary School: Major Renovation Plans
    • Santa Fe/ NM Awarded $4+ Million in Federal Funds for Lowest Performing Schools
    • Santa Fe/ PED Plans Executive Order to Initiate Teacher Evaluation Process
    • Santa Fe/ NM Moves Up 16 Places to 4th in Charter School Accountability
    • Estancia/ Superintendent Candidates Unveiled
    • Española/ EVHS Slammed for Secret Transcript Changes
    • ABQ/ "Librotraficantes" Stopped at National Hispanic Cultural Center
    • Mesilla/ Librotraficantes Banned Book Caravan Brings Book Protest to Mesilla
    NATIONAL NEWS
    • San Antonio TX/ Texas Schools Face Bigger Classes and Smaller Staff
    • Washington DC/ School Districts Wary of Possible Federal Funding Cut
    • Washington DC/ Study: ELLs Who Reach Proficiency Quickly Fare Better
    • New York NY/ Scholastic Survey: Teachers Don't Trust Annual State Skills Tests
    • New York NY/ EDITORIAL: Books Without Borders
    • Denver CO/ OPINION: Change in Public Schools Doesn't Come Quickly
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Closing the App Gap
    • Los Angeles CA/ OPINION: The Rising Tide of Data
  • 15 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST - DO NOT DELETE  (3/15/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Peñasco/ Gladys Herrera Gurulé: New La Jicarita Charter School Director
    • Soccoro/ The Quality of Education Survey 2012: Schools Want Feedback
    • Alamogordo/ Schools Discuss Spice and K2 Drug Problem
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: High School Pre-Teach Program Nurtures Future Teachers
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Invest Wisely in Better Teachers
    NATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Feds Aim to Spark Fresh Thinking on Schooling
    • Portland OR/ SUN Community Schools Model Shows Staying Power
    • New York NY/ Morgan Book Project: Teaching Children the Value of Pre-Web Pages
    • Washington DC/ INTERVIEW: Salman Khan, Khan Academy Creator Talks About K-12 Innovation
    • Juneau AK/ OPINION: Indigenous Language and AI/AN Student Success
  • 14 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/14/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS

    Cuba/ School District Target of State Police Fraud Probe
    ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Education Reform Will Help All NM Students

    NATIONAL NEWS

    New York NY/ TED-Ed Creates Educational YouTube Video Library
    New York NY/ Khan Academy iPad App Launches With Free, Educational Videos
    Bloomfield IN/ The Project School: Standardized Testing As Literary Genre
    Denver CO/ EDITORIAL: Teachable Moments in the Stifling of Students' Voices
    Chicago IL/ COLUMN: Being a Teacher Not as Easy as One Might Think
    Los Angeles CA/ OPINION: Cuts to Arts Education Shortchange Our Children
  • 13 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (3/13/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ St. Mike's Drug Test Plan Includes Faculty
    NATIONAL NEWS
    • Denver CO/ Inaugural Year: DPS School-Choice Program Accommodates Most Students
    • Denver CO/ EDITORIAL: End All-in-One School Construction Deals
    • New York NY/ EDITORIAL: Dream Act for New York
    • New York/ COLUMN: Pass the Books. Hold the Oil.
    • Bethesda MD/ OPINION: Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing: The Issue of Retention
    • Austin TX/ OPINION: Live From SXSW, Wolfram's Computational Approach to Education
  • 10-12 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/12/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ NM School Cuts Among Deepest in Nation
    • ABQ/ APS Budget Outlook Better
    • ABQ/ Hispanic Critics Blast Education Secretary-Designate Hanna Skandera
    • Santa Fe/ NM Counties to Receive Federal Payments for 'Secure Rural Schools'
    • ABQ/ Taft Middle School Online Class Gives High School Credit
    • Socorro/ Sarracino Middle School Teacher Margaret Stanley Wins Golden Apple Award
    • Rio Rancho/ Student Council Adviser Bill Duncan Honored in 7-State Region
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Wingate Elementary School Officials Should Get Own Scarlet Letter
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Put Your Vote to Work for Education
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Austin TX/ TRANSCRIPT: Secretary Arne Duncan on The New Platform for Learning
    • New York NY/ YouTube Subtracts Racy and Raucous to Add a Teaching Tool
    • Houston TX/ Schools Take a Page from Best Charters
    • Chicago IL/ District Plans 6-Year Tech High Schools
    • New York NY/ Nonfiction Curriculum Enhanced Reading Skills
    • Grand County CO/ East Grand School Board Endorses Indian Peaks Charter School Application
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Each Teacher Wonders, Is This the One?
  • 9 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (3/9/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Bloomfield/ Teacher Kathy Lund Vies to be Named Best in Nation
    • Farmington/ Rio Grande Foundation Posts Local School Employees' Salaries Online
    • ABQ/ OPINION: We Must Teach How to Teach Reading
    • Santa Fe/ 2 LETTERS: Superintendent Bobbie Gutierrez's Contract Ending
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Denver CO/ Legislature, School Districts Debate Effectiveness of Students Repeating a Grade
    • New York NY/ Illegal Immigrants Get Scholarships While Aid Bill Idles
    • Austin TX/ OPINION: Teaching a Child to Read on a Shoestring
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Restoring Civic Purpose in Schools
  • 8 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/8/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Clovis/ School Construction: Students Get First-Hand Look at Engineering
    • Santa Fe/ Superintendent Unveils 5-Year Plan to Improve Schools
    • Santa Fe/ Moving On: Can Santa Fe's School Board Unite Behind New Leader?
    • ABQ/ Plans Put 2 APS Board Seats on West Side
    • Las Cruces/ OPINION: Working Together, We Can Help Children Learn to Read
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Education Department Awards $24.6 Million in Grants for Teacher and Principal Development
    • Austin TX/ SXSWedu Report: Lessons From a One-to-One iPad Program
    • Tucson AZ/ MAS Program Banned: Request To Reinstate Mexican American Studies Program Denied
    • New York NY/ Teacher Evaluations Pose Test for States
    • New York NY/ MetLife Annual Survey of the American Teacher Shows Morale at Low Point
    • New York NY/ COLUMN: Africa's Girl Power
    • Frankfort KY/ OPINION: Seeing the Invisible-How I Teach AP (and Why)
  • 7 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/7/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ School Board: Agua Fría School Will Move, New Facility on Undisclosed Site
    • Santa Fe/ School Board: Superintendent's Firing, Delay in New School
    • Socorro/ School Board Sets Teaching Timelines
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Growing Achievement Gaps Bring Focus on Poverty's Role in Schooling
    • Washington DC/ New Data from Highlights Inequities Around Teacher Experience, Discipline and High School Rigor
    • Newark NJ/ Teachers Village Project Aims to Link Living and Learning
    • New York NY/ Must Value-Added Models Grade Teachers on a Curve?
    • New York NY/ New AP Courses to Emphasize Critical Thinking and Research
    • New York NY/ College Hunt Starts Earlier at New Breed of Schools
    • Adelanto CA/ Parent Trigger: School Tests California Law Allowing Takeover Via Petition
    • Washington DC/ INTERVIEW: CAFÉ-Creating a Menu for Reading Instruction
    • New York NY/ OPINION: The Trouble With Humiliating Teachers
  • 6 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (3/6/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • ABQ/ Tests Loom for APS in March
    • ABQ/ Georgia O'Keeffe Elementary School Receives $100,0000 'Ellen' Grant to Foster Science
    • Portales/ Board of Education Meets to Adjust Budget
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Bright Spots Shine in Online Blended Learning
    • Coon Rapids MN/ Anoka-Hennepin School Board Votes to Settle Suit by LGBT Students
    • Coon Rapids MN/ Anoka-Hennepin School District, To Vote On Bullying Lawsuits Settlement
    • Washington DC/ When School Fights Land on YouTube
    • New York NY/ Scholastic: Children's Publisher Developing App for e-Reading
    • San Diego CA/ OPINION: What Your Undocumented-Immigrant Students Want You to Know
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Why Would Any Sane Person Want to Teach?
  • 3-5 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (3/5/2012)
  • NEW MEXICO NEWS
    • Santa Fe/ Governor Signs $5.6 Billion Budget
    • Santa Fe/ Gov. Martinez Wants Capital Outlay Reforms, Threatens Vetoes
    • Santa Fe/ Sen. Cynthia Nava, D-Las Cruces Retiring
    • ABQ/ Education Leaders Meet to Help Change New Mexico Public Schools
    • Santa Fe/ StartSmart K-3 Plus: Federal Schools Program Expands
    • Magdalena/ Schools to Cancel After-School Tutoring [plus Construction Report]
    • Deming/ School Board Considers Redistricting Plan
    • ABQ/ East Mountain Students + Cool Toys = Educational Jackpot
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: New Direction for Santa Fe Schools
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Future Depends on Investing in Education
    • ABQ/ OPINION: ABQ Journal Underestimates the Good Griego's Done
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Transparency in School Decisions
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: [St. Michael's High School] Drug Testing in Best Interest of Students
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Tucson AZ/ Arizona School Funding Gap Grows Between 'Have', 'Have-Not' Districts
    • New York NY/ Instruction for Masses Knocks Down Campus Walls
    • New York NY/ Beyond the College Degree, Online Educational Badges
    • New York NY/ The Limits of Online Assessments
    • New York NY/ Hard-Working Teachers, Sabotaged When Student Test Scores Slip
    • New York NY/ RAND Education Study: Principal Turnover Bodes Poorly for Schools
    • Washington DC/ "Race To The Top For Districts" Piques Interest of Chicago & Los Angeles Mayors
    • Los Angeles CA/ COLUMN:Learning Lessons from a Father's Pride in his Son
    • Washington DC/ RELEASE: Do You Know How Strong Your Schools' Arts Programs Are?
  • 2 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (3/2/2012)
  • • Taos/ School Board Votes Down Math Proposal
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Let's Hear It for English Expo
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Baltimore MD/ Johns Hopkins Partnership Aims to Help Education Entrepreneur
    • New York NY/ Comparing New York City's Value-Added Teacher Scores Model
    • New York NY/ Radon In Schools: Many Classrooms Threatened, Districts Don't Require Testing
  • 1 March 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (3/1/2012)
  • • Rio Rancho/ Schools Anticipate Nearly Balanced Budget: 1st Time in 5 Years
    • Farmington/ Students Take Top Language Arts Awards
    • ABQ/ YDI's C-Core Program: Building Life Skills
    • Socorro/ Science Olympiad Brings Out Best in Students
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: Schools Communicating Through Skylert
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Unnecessary as Well as Unwise
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Denver CO/ Secretary of Education Arne Duncan TRANSCRIPT: Greening Our Schools
    • New York NY/ If Twitter is a Work Necessity
    • Los Angeles CA/ EDITORIAL: California to Some Kids-No Transitional Kindergarten
    • Cambridge MA/ COLUMN: Born to Not Get Bullied
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: People vs. 'Personalization'
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: What Florida is Doing to Its Public Schools
  • 29 February 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (2/29/2012)
  • • Taos/ Parsons Plans Exit from Taos District as Bond Projects Wind Down
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Superintendent Bobbie Gutierrez Fired in 3-2 Vote
    • Clovis/ Municipal Schools Board of Education Meeting Results
    • Aztec/ Mayor Thanks Teachers with Proclamation
    • Columbus/ Columbus Elementary School Garden Grows
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: A Rough Transition for Public Schools
    • ABQ/ OPINION: NM Voices for Children Board Acted Properly with Griego Severance
    • ABQ/ OPINION: System Saps Teachers, and Kids, of Passion
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ Colleges Mis-Assign Many to Remedial Classes
    • New York NY/ 2 New Studies: Many College Students Could Skip Remedial Classes
    • McAllen TX/ School District Embarks on Widespread iPad Program to Close Digital Divide
    • Los Angeles CA/ EDITORIAL: California's Flawed Parent Trigger
    • Denver CO/ OPINION: Duncan Praises CO as Leader in Education Reform
  • 28 February 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (2/28/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ School Board Opts to Buy Out Superintendent Bobbie Gutierrez's Contract
    • Santa Fe/ Public Schools Superintendent Bobbie Gutierrez Terminated
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Superintendent Bobbie Gutierrez Out
    • Santa Fe/ Gov. Martinez Agrees with Obama Education Plea
    • Santa Fe/ NM Receives Nearly $12 Million from Sale of Oil and Gas Leases
    • Santa Fe/ AG's Opinion Issued on Final Closure of Boys' School, Use of Land-Grant Revenue
    • Santa Fe/ Middle Schools Task Force Report Finds Good, Bad in K-8, Middle Schools
    • Grants/ School District Releases Annual Report Card
    • Farmington/ Public Response to Proposed Waiver-Policy Changes
    • Santa Fe/ Academy for Technology and the Classics Still Weighing Campus Options
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Obama to Governors: Quit Cutting K-12, College Funding
    • Washington DC/ President Obama Asks Governors to Spare Education from State Budget Cuts
    • Baltimore MD/ Mayor to Introduce Bill to Raise Bottle Tax for School Construction
    • New York NY/ State Eyes Shielding Teachers
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Improving the Practice of Large-Scale School Reform
  • 25-27 February 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (2/27/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ Inexcusable Absences: From Acequia Madre Elementary to Capital High
    • Deming/ School District Seeking AdvancED Accreditation
    • Taos/ County Educational GRT Awaits Governor's Signature
    • Santa Fe/ Secretary of Education Still Designate
    • Santa Fe/ Jazz Institute Workshops Set at APS, Santa Fe Schools
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Just Say No to Drug Tests
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Severance Deal Serves Candidate Eric Griego, Not Kids
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: School Meals Offer Food for Thought
    • Las Cruces/ COLUMN: AYP May Now RIP in NM Schools
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Goals of a West Side School District
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Student Literacy Should Matter to All
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ After Release of Ratings, a Focus on 'Top' Teachers
    • Washington DC/ Pre-Application for 2012 Investing in Innovation (i3) Development Released
    • Washington DC/ States Seek to Boost K-12 Aid as Revenue Recovers
    • London ENGLAND/ More Teachers 'Quitting the Classroom Over Indiscipline'
    • Pasadena CA/ OPINION: Computer Languages-Students Need to Speak Them
  • 24 February 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (2/24/2012)
  • • Moriarty/ E2020: Moriarty-Edgewood Schools Consider E-Learning
    • Texico/ Students Help to Complete Shop Facility at Texico High School
    • Socorro/ Top NM Students Compete for Science Olympiad Title
    • Questa/ Building-Mold Woes Extend to Head Start, Ancianos
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ US Education Department to Closely Monitor Subgroups in NCLB Waiver States
    • Washington DC/ Future Uncertain for Secure Rural Schools Act Funding
    • Cherry Creek CO/ Lesson Plan to Improve Latinos' Graduation Rate
  • 23 February 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (2/23/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ Grade A- or F?
    • Santa Fe/ Gov. Martinez' Team to Create Teacher, Principal Evaluation
    • Farmington/ Schools Sweating Over Budget Talks
    • Las Cruces/ Sen. Jeff Bingaman Praises Success of Arrowhead Early College High School
    • Shiprock/ Northwest High School Prepares to Start Again from Scratch
    • Santa Fe/ St. Michael's High Plan for Random Student Drug Testing is Hard Sell to Parents
    • Cloudcroft/ School Board Implements New Rules to Limit Community Input
    • Farmington/ Schools to Hold Public Forum on Waivers
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Join Dialogue on School Reform
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Denver CO/ 23,000 District Parents Participate in Streamlined School-Choice Program
    • Washington DC/ Providers Fear New Head Start Rules Could Mean Shake Out for the Field
    • Washington DC/ COMMENTARY: What Research Says About School Choice
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Bill Gates - Shame is Not the Solution
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Diane Ravitch - New Evaluation System Is 'Madness'
  • 22 February 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (2/22/2012)
  • • ABQ/ APS Eyes $9.3M Trim in Budget, West Siders Unite, NM Nears Top of Good List
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: ATC Charter School Troubles Deserve Closer Look
    • Silver City/ EDITORIAL: State Negligent in Confirming Education Secretary
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Denver CO/ Improving Achievement: Consultants' Cost Doesn't Spell Success for CO Schools
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Plenty of Room at the Teachers' Table
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Dignity for All-LGBT Students Need Our Support
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Inequality & Segregation in US and Chinese School Systems
  • 21 February 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (2/21/2012)
  • • Shiprock/ CCSD to Consider $985,000 Upgrade for 2 Schools
    • Santa Fe/ Historic St. Catherine Indian School Campus' Owner Ready to Discuss Sale
    • Taos / County Education GRT Bill Amended to Include Charter Schools
    • Raton/ Technology Tax Considered; School District to Form Needs-Review Committee
    • Portales/ Teachers Finding Place for iPads in Classroom
    • Santa Fe/ St. Michael's School Drug Policy Garners Support, Outrage
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: APS Should Consider Subject of Investigation
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ EDITORIAL: Shuttering Bad Charter Schools
    • Los Angeles CA/ COLUMN: Why Arizona Banned Ethnic Studies
    • Baltimore MD/ OPINION: Retention Costs More, Accomplishes Less
  • 18-20 February 2012 : PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (2/20/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ Academy for Technology and the Classics: Charter School Considers Relocating
    • ABQ/ Straight Out of 'Bad Teacher' Movie: 23 NM Educators Lose Licenses in 2011
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: APS Uses a Mulligan
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: NCLB Waiver Shows Reform Possible Here
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: 2012 Legislature Failed on School Reform
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: No Hits, No Errors, No Nuthin'
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ States Try to Fix Quirks in Teacher Evaluations
    • Los Angeles CA/ 'Parent Trigger' Campaign Divides Families at Troubled Adelanto Elementary School
    • Los Angeles CA/ EDITORIAL: LAUSD's Truancy Trouble Needs Fresh Look
    • New York NY/ OPINION: 'You Are So Smart...Why Did You Become a Teacher?'
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Students Learn Differently-So Why Test Them All the Same?
  • 17 February 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (2/17/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ Lawmakers Ditch Governor's School Bills
    • Santa Fe/ Governor Loses Key Education Bill
    • Santa Fe/ Lawmakers Close Politically Heated Session
    • Santa Fe/ NCLB: NM Latest to Receive Waiver from Education Law
    • ABQ/ APS Board To Take 2nd Look at Redistricting
    • Raton/ Closed Campus for High School Considered; Safety, Attendance Cited
    • Rio Rancho/ School Superintendent Sue Cleveland's Contract Extended
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Legislative Session Over: Now What?
    • Taos/ OBITUARY: Frutoso López, Taos Teacher for Four Decades
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Denver CO/ Turnaround Schools Show "Unreal" Improvement in Students' Math Scores
    • New York NY/ Australian Report: Why East Asian Students are Superior
    • New York NY/ EDITORIAL: A Sound Deal on Teacher Evaluations
  • 16 February 2012: PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (2/16/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ NM Receives Waiver for No Child Left Behind Act
    • Santa Fe/ 'Social Promotion' Fate Uncertain
    • Santa Fe/ House Approves Bill 69 to Safeguard Reading Proficiency: Mandatory Retention
    • Santa Fe/ NM Schools Grading System Under Review
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ New Mexico Granted NCLB Waiver, Not Conditional
    • Washington DC/ Department of Education Approves NM's Request for Flexibility from NCLB
    • Washington DC/ Next Race to the Top Competition Topic? Teacher Reform
    • Washington DC/ Rethinking Testing in the Age of the iPad
    • Washington DC/ New Analysis Makes Case for Higher Ranking for US Schools
    • Denver CO/ EDITORIAL: A Teachable Moment on Teenagers' Cellphone Use
    • New Haven CT/ COLUMN: The New Haven Experiment
    • New York NY/ OPINON: Teachers' Peer Review Would Strengthen Profession
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: NCLB Waiver Cheat Sheet: How to Win in the 2nd Round
  • 15 February 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (2/15/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ APS Redistricting Plans Overturned
    • Santa Fe/ House Speaker Lujan Adjourns Floor Session Without Calling for Vote
    • Santa Fe/ Teacher Ratings Get Nod in House
    • Santa Fe/ Education Secretary-Designate Skandera Confirmation, Once Again, Unlikely
    • Santa Clara/ Renovations Continue on Central Elementary School
    • Taos/ School Board Aims to Keep Construction Dollars Local
    • Santa Fe/ Expensive Waste Removal Hinders New Site for Agua Fría Elementary School
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: A New Twist [St. Catherine's Indian School Campus]
    • Alamogordo/ OPINION: APS Superintendent Dr. George Straface Grateful for Bond Votes
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ $5 Billion in Grants Offered to Revisit Teacher Policies
    • Washington DC/ A Thirst for Research: Virtual Education Seen as Understudied
    • Washington DC/ Picking and Choosing Digital Content
    • Washington DC/ Preschool Assessments: A Look Across the States
    • Dunellen NJ/ Home-Schooling Demographics Change, Expand
  • 14 February 2012 PSFA Daily NEWS DIGEST   (2/14/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ Superintendents Give Education Boss Bad Report Card
    • ABQ/ Albuquerque High School Bilingual Program: Muy Bueno Bilingual
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Hold Public Education Department Secretary-Designate Skandera Accountable
    • Deming/ OPINION: New School-Grading System
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ President Obama to Highlight Education in Budget Rollout
    • Washington DC/ US Dept. of Education 2013 Budget Continues Investments to Strengthen Workforce, Rebuild Economy
    • New York NY/ GED Alternatives Weighed by State As Costs Climb
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: 7 Misconceptions About How Students Learn
  • 11-13 February 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (2/13/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ PED Secretary-Designate Hanna Skandera Confirmation Hearing Delayed
    • Santa Fe/ House OKs Educational Pension Solvency Bill
    • Santa Fe/ Celebrated Scholar George I. Sanchez Remains Unrecognized in Home State
    • Cuba/ PED Officials Probing Cuba Schools
    • Santa Fe/ St. Michael's High School to Start Random Drug Tests
    • Santa Fe/ Schools, Agencies and Peers Aim to Prevent Teen Suicides
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Reforms, Waiver Key To Fixing NM Schools
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Keep New Mexico's 'Permanent' Fund Permanent
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Get the Facts Straight on Pension Plans
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Arizona Superintendent Should Read Before Removing Books
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Stand Up for Your Rights, West Side!
    • Santa Fe/ 3 LETTERS: George Darryl Waller's Departure from Ortiz Middle School
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Just One State Left Behind [NM] - For Now
    • Washington DC/ Urban Districts: SIG Program Promising Despite Bumpy First Year
    • Mooresville NC/ Community's Shining Example (It's Not Just About the Laptops)
    • New York NY/ New Tactics on Reading at Middle Schools
    • Chicago IL/ Suburban Chicago Schools Lag as Bilingual Needs Grow
    • Los Angeles CA/ Google's 1st Hire, Craig Silverstein, Leaves for Khan Academy
    • Tucson AZ/ INTERVIEW: "No History is Illegal" Teacher Calls for Return of Banished Books
    • Denver CO/ OPINION: Graduated, Not Educated
  • 10 February 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (2/10/2012)
  • • Farmington/ Farmington Levy and Aztec School Bond Pass
    • Santa Fe/ NM Bid for 'No Child' Waiver Only One to Fail
    • Santa Fe/ NM Denied NCLB Waiver
    • Santa Fe/ APS Fights Martinez Education Agenda
    • Santa Fe/ ABQ Residents: West Side Neglected
    • Española/ School Interim Superintendent Art Blea: 3rd in 3 Weeks
    • Estancia/ New Charter School: Estancia Valley Classical Academy Taking Shape
    • Santa Fe/ Feds Charge Owner Max R. Tafoya of Former St. Catherine Indian School Campus with Fraud
    • Grants/ EDITORIAL: Scholarships Will Give Chance to Special Needs' and Low-Income Students
    • Silver City/ OPINION: Asking 'Doctor No' for an Affirmative for Early Learning
    • Santa Fe/ LETTER: Mill-Levy Thanks from SFPS Superintendent
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Broad Changes Ahead as NCLB Waivers Roll Out [NM mention]
    • New York NY/ 10 States Are Given Waivers From Education Law
    • Washington DC/ Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor
    • Los Angeles CA/ EDITORIAL: Salvaging Miramonte Elementary School 's Year
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Racial Education Gap Narrowing, Income Education Gap Growing
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: The Loss of Solitude in Schools
  • Copy of 9 February 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (2/9/2012)
  • • ABQ/ Southwest Aeronautics, Mathematics & Science Academy: Eclipse Building to House Aviation Charter School
    • Clovis/ Educators: Early Start Best for Reading Proficiency
    • Española/ Arthur Blea Named New School Superintendent
    • Clovis/ COLUMN: Technology Transforming Classrooms
    • Las Cruces/ OPINION: Let Voters Decide on Funding for Early Learning Services
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Official: 10 States Receive Education Waiver, NM Does Not
    • Washington DC/ NCLB: Schools' Law Earns One Credit
    • Joplin MO/ Joplin Takes Digital Approach to Rebuilding Education
    • Washington DC/ Educators, Parents Hold Mixed Views on Testing
    • New York NY/ A Small School Thrives Within a Large One Full of Challenges
    • New York NY/ EDITORIAL: Successes of Small Schools
  • 8 February 2012 PSFA News DIGEST  (2/8/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ 2-Mill Levy for Schools Passes
    • Santa Fe/ Voters OK Tax Levy for Schools
    • Alamogordo/ Alamogordo, Tularosa School Bonds Passed by Voters
    • Las Cruces/ Gadsden School District Bond Election Passes
    • Rio Rancho/ Voters Approve $50-Million Bond Package & 2-Mill Levy
    • Santa Fe/ NM Attorney General Gary King: Early-Education Plan Needs Congress' OK
    • Santa Fe/ De Vargas Middle School Erupts in Chaos in Wake of Poor District Management
    • Santa Fe/ When is an 'A' Not Really an 'A'?
    • Santa Fe/ Commissioned Report Raises Option of Shutting Atalaya Elementary School
    • Shiprock/ CCSD Superintendent Contract Awarded to Don Levinski
    • Alamogordo/ Public Engagement Meeting: Importance of State Tests Presented
    • Farmington/ Parents as Teachers Program Receives More Than $410,000 in Kellogg Funding
    • ABQ/ Unsung Education Heroes to be Recognized in Contest
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Skandera isn't Up to Job of Education Head in NM
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ President Obama Unveils STEM Education Plans at White House Science Fair
    • Denver CO/ More Colorado High School Graduates Than Ever Not Ready for College
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Fighting the Wrong Education Battles
  • 7 February 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (2/7/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ TUESDAY: Vote on Santa Fe Public Schools Funding
    • Santa Fe/ Pork Projects Top $3 Billion, Only $130 Million Available in Capital Outlay
    • Santa Fe/ Reading Bill Hits Snag in House Education Committee, Still Passes
    • Santa Fe/ Teachers' Evaluation Process Could Change
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ US Education Department Releases Guide for States on English-Language Proficiency
    • Mankato MI/ In Some Cash-Strapped Schools, Kids Bring Their Own Tech Devices
    • Ankara TURKEY/ Government Distributes 12,000 Tablet Computers to 52 Schools Nationwide
    • Los Angeles CA/ Illegal School Fees Target of New Legislation
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: From Laggards to Leaders [NM Washington Teaching Ambassador Fellow]
    • Denver CO/ OPINION: A Bold Approach to Cultivating Tomorrow's Teachers
  • 3 February 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (2/3/2012)
  • • Rio Rancho/ Superintendent Sue V. Cleveland: Approving $50 Million Bond for Schools Critical
    • Santa Fe/ Trio of Bills Push for New Teacher-Evaluation System
    • ABQ/ APS Renews Charter for El Camino Real Academy
    • Mesa Vista/ School District Superintendent Randy Earwood's Contract Not Renewed
    • Santa Fe/ Controversial Education Secretary Hanna Skandera May Be at Crossroads
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Future Riding on Reading
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Virtual Education in Canada Favors Centralized Programs
    • Washington DC/ States Mulling Creativity Indexes for Schools
    • Sacramento CA/ California Steps Up Focus on English-Language Learners
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Ellen DeGeneres: Public Education's New Funding Stream
  • 2 February 2012 PSFA Daily Digest  (2/2/2012)
  • • Aztec/ Voters Have $17 Million Bond to Consider for Technology & New Facilities
    • Los Alamos/ Schools, County Plan Development
    • Santa Fe/ Rudderless Ship: Long-Term Leadership Vacancy Leaves Native American Students Adrift
    • Santa Fe/ NM Secretary of Education-designate Hanna Skandera: Education Waiver Needs Work
    • Santa Fe/ Teacher-Leave Bill Rejected
    • ABQ/ APS Online Transfer-Site Experiencing Technical Difficulties
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Now is the Time for Tax-Credit Scholarships
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Amend Constitution for Sake of Our Kids
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ With Data Backing Smaller High Schools, City's Larger Ones Fret Over Their Fate
    • Washington DC/ Education Secretary & FCC Chief Urge Schools to Adopt Digital Textbooks by 2017
    • Washington DC/ International Initiatives Fuel Growth of Open Education Content
    • Boston MA/ Education 2.0: Can Digital Learning Day Begin a Classroom Revolution?
    • Los Angeles CA/ EDITORIAL: Passing the Blue Ribbon Schools Test
    • Seattle WA/ OPINION: Homeschooling - Why Urban, Educated Parents Are Turning to DIY Education
  • 1 February 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (2/1/2012)
  • • Farmington/ Groundbreaking for New Tibbetts Middle School
    • Santa Fe/ St. Catherine's Campus Financing Considered, More Information Needed
    • ABQ/ Positive Behavior Supports Program: Positivity Pays
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Miami FL/ NCLB Waivers: States Failed to Hold Schools Accountable for Student Performance
    • Tucson AZ/ Librotraficantes: Books Allegedly Banned from AZ Ethnic Studies to be Smuggled Back
    • Washington DC/ Mobile Devices Address Education Technology Equity in Africa
    • Los Angeles CA/ OPINION: Pushing Past Mediocrity in the Classroom
  • 31 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (1/31/2012)
  • • Grants/ GCCS Board Approves $1 Million Impact Aid Title VII Application
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Virtual Teachers Deploy Skills Across Countries
    • Washington DC/ C2i: NEA Foundation Launches Gaming Challenge on ED's Open Innovation Portal
    • New York NY/ OPINION: How to Make Educational Games Gripping? Use Sport Fans' Loyalty
    • Los Angeles CA/ OPINON: An LA Teacher Reviews Her Review
  • 28-30 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST   (1/30/2012)
  • • Las Cruces/ J. Paul Taylor Academy: Charter School May Take Over Former City Office Center
    • Santa Fe/ Hard Read: Local Teachers Say Eliminating Social Promotion is Not Answer
    • Santa Fe/ State Rep. Jim Smith: Money for Early Childhood Reading
    • Taos/ 2 Charter Schools Proposed for Taos, Tres Piedras
    • ABQ/ Albuquerque Schools' Redistricting Draws LULAC Fire
    • Shiprock/ CCSD's Acting Superintendent Don Levinski to be Evaluated
    • ABQ/ Kids with Autism Light Up at Sight of iPads
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Shoring Up High School
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Time to Help Out in the Schools
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: School Reform Bills a Vital Start
    • ABQ/ OPINION: New APS Boundaries Decided Fairly
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Earn Promotion by Learning to Read
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Teachers Heroic in Their Service
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: Make Reading a Priority
    • Portales/ LETTER: Educators Deserving of Funded Retirement
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • London, England/ Harnessing Gaming for the Classroom
    • Chicago IL/ COLUMN: Change to E-Textbooks Neither Easy Nor Cheap
    • New York NY/ OPINION: 'Shut Up and Teach' - The High Stakes of Teacher Voice
    • Los Angeles CA/ OPINION: How to Grade a Teacher
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Ritalin Gone Wrong
  • 27 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/27/2012)
  • • Carlsbad/ Eddy County to Share in $11 Million in Federal School Funds
    • Santa Fe/ USDA's Secure Rural Schools Program Awards County $150,000
    • ABQ/ APS Board Member Analee Maestas Dismayed
    • Española/ School Superintendent Evelyn Maruska Ousted [ABQ Journal]
    • Española/ Superintendent Evelyn Maruska Placed on Paid Administrative Leave [Rio Grande Sun]
    • Kirtland/ CCSD Previews New Curriculum
    • Farmington/ Engineering Mentorship: Merrion Oil and Gas Drills Education into Students
    • Santa Fe/ Bipartisan Backing for Hiring NM Grads
    • Santa Fe/ Firms, Gov. Martinez Push Construction Tax Cuts
    • Santa Fe/ Editorial: NM House Funding Education Status Quo
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on the New MDRC Study
    • Boston MA/ Under Education Reform, School Principals Swamped by Teacher Evaluations
    • Washington DC/ Study: As Obama Touts Common Core, State Standards Spread Slowly Across US
    • Washington DC/ Some States Encouraging Students to Graduate Early From High School
    • Denver CO/ Colorado AG Weighs In on DPS, Union Fight over Innovation Schools Act
  • 26 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/26/2012)
  • • Clovis/ School Construction Making Progress
    • Santa Fe/ SF City Council Approves St. Kate's Resolution
    • Santa Fe/ Teen Parents Ask Legislators to Help Them Stay in School
    • Santa Fe/ Social Demotion: Is Holding Kids Back Really So Bad?
    • Carlsbad/ School Board Renews Superintendent Gary Perkowski's Contract
    • Santa Fe/ NM Moves to End 'Brain Drain'
    • Farmington/ PED Stalls CCSD Split Efforts
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Lawsuits Contend States Fail to Meet K-12 Funding Duties
    • New York NY/ Study: City Students at Small Public High Schools More Likely to Graduate
    • New York NY/ New Evidence that Small Schools Work
    • Washington DC/ New Study: Transform or Close Many Public Schools, Expand Charter Schools
    • Washington DC/ Obama Wades Into Issue of Raising Dropout Age
    • Denver CO/ EDITORIAL: Learning from Charter Schools
    • Los Angeles CA/ OPINION: Gender Equity: Doing the Math
    • New York NY/ OPINION: The True Cost of High School Dropouts
  • 25 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/25/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ House Education Committee Recommends $2.5 Billion Budget
    • ABQ/ APS Board Map Angers West-Siders
    • Santa Fe/ Audit: Tierra Encantada Charter School Needs to Invest in Classrooms
    • Clovis/ School Superintendent Terry Myers' Contract Extended
    • ABQ/ APS Radio and Television Ads Inspire Parents
    • Farmington/ CCSD Targeted in Civil Rights Suit
    • Taos/ School Board Postpones Vote on Changes to Taos High Math
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ State Special Education Rates Vary Widely
    • Chicago IL/As Some Schools Plunge into Technology, Poor Schools Left Behind
    • Washington DC/ Study Shares Secrets of Successful 'Newcomer' Schools
    • Denver/ $800,000 DPS Grant: Pilot Program to Train Assistant Principals
    • Philadelphia PA/ Andre Agassi to Celebrate KIPP Charter School Facility
    • Los Angeles CA/ EDITORIAL: NY Education Played to Tune of Race to the Top
    • New York NY/ OPINION: We Can Overcome Poverty's Impact on School Success
    • Los Angeles CA/ OPINION: Gov. Brown's School Reform Proposal Should Get Passing Grade
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: E-Textbooks Should Be Free-Textbooks
  • 24 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/24/2012)
  • • Grants/ Federal Indian Education Funding On Hold for District
    • Farmington/ KIDS COUNT Report: NM, San Juan County Kids at High Risk
    • Taos/ Charter Schools Respond to Grades; Some Taos schools to Appeal
    • Taos/ District Eyes Changes to Taos High Math Course Availability
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Rep Defends Her Service to State
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Black, Latino Students Perform at Levels of 30 Years Ago
    • Washington DC/ US Schools Forge Foreign Connections Via Web
    • Denver CO/ iPads in Class Energize Kids as Teachers Test How to Use Them
    • Denver CO/ Schools Look for Best Ideas to Protect Kids on Internet
    • New York NY/ Free Courses May Shake Universities' Monopoly on Credit
    • New York NY/ Blogs vs. Term Papers
  • 21-23 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/23/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ NM Kids Count Data Book 2011
    • Santa Fe / School District Urges Voters to Renew 2-Mill Levy
    • Santa Fe/ State Jet-Sale Funds Could Buy Kids' Books
    • Taos/ Aspiring Taos County Charter Schools Seek Approval
    • Magdalena/ Superintendent Mike Chambers' Contract Extended
    • Farmington/ CCSD Unveils New Curriculum
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Sandia Base Elementary School Doesn't Sound Like an F
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Educate Yourself on School Grades
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Making Sense of the School Grades
    • Deming/ OPINION: F's Become A's with Early Childhood Education
    • Deming/ OPINION: Administrators Missed Point
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Denver CO/ City Public Schools Post Gains in On-Time Graduation Rates
    • Rockville MD/ Special Education Teachers Borrow from Brain Studies
    • New York NY/ Sharing a Screen, if Not a Classroom
    • Washington DC/ Teachers Take to Twitter to Improve Craft and Commiserate
    • Boston MA/ Toddlers to Tweens: Relearning How to Play
    • New York NY/ EDITORIAL: Young Strivers in Two Worlds
    • Los Angeles CA/ EDITORIAL: Don't Skimp on School Tests
    • New York NY/ COLUMN and INTERVIEW: The Most Important Job in America
  • 20 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/20/2012)
  • • Rio Rancho/ Forum For $50 Million School Bond Poorly Attended
    • Moriarty/ District Superintendent Karen Couch Backs Grading
    • ABQ/ El Camino Real Academy: Educators 'Transform' Charter School
    • Española / Even on Bell Curve, 3 Española Schools Fail
    • Shiprock/ CCSD Puts Operations Director Ed Marquez on Administrative Leave
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • New York NY/ Apple's New iBooks 2 Fulfills One of Steve Jobs' Last Dreams
    • New York NY/ Apple Launches E-Textbook Initiative
    • New York NY/Apple Introduces iBooks 2, iBooks Author, iTunes U App To Transform Textbooks
    • New York NY/ Sell Your Book in the iBookstore and Apple Won't Let You Sell It Anywhere Else
    • New York NY/ Study: Educational Apps for Young Children Growing Rapidly
    • Sacramento CA/ Gov. Brown Sharply Differs from Federal Education Policy
  • 19 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/19/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ Foundation for Child Development Report: NM Worst State for Children to Live In
    • Santa Fe/ NM Earns $6.5 Million in Oil and Gas-Lease Sales
    • Santa Fe/ Senate Finance Committee Hears from 5 Superintendents
    • Alamogordo/ $20 Million in Bonds on February Ballot: Schools' Improvements Hinge on Results
    • ABQ/ Enrollment Down by More than 1,000 Students at APS
    • ABQ/ APS Superintendent Winston Brooks Speaks Against Governor's Plan to Reform Education
    • Carlsbad/ School Board Renews Superintendent Gary Perkowski 's Contract
    • Socorro/ Selection Process Under Way for New Superintendent
    • Santa Fe/ Chuck Franco Lends Support to Adult Literacy Coalition
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Let the Sunshine In [Española School Superintendent & Board]
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Copenhagen DENMARK/ Open Spaces Transform Danish Education
    • Washington DC/ US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan: It's Time to Create Race to Top for Districts
    • New York NY/ Inching Closer to Agreement on Evaluations for Teachers
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Finland's Success Is No Miracle
    • Denver CO/ OPINION: School District Not Fit for Its King
  • 18 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/18/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ Gov. Martinez on Education: It's an Investment in Reform
    • Santa Fe/ Gov. Martinez Set for Legislative Battle
    • Santa Fe/ More NM Kids Falling into Poverty
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Madison "Madi" Bridges Teen's Hard Work and Smile Real Inspiration
    • ABQ/ COLUMN: Lawmakers Need Input on Schools
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Growth in Pre-Kindergarten Slowed in Recession
    • Phoenix AZ/ Gov. Jan Brewer: Save State Money by Not Building as Many Schools
    • Las Vegas NV/ In Era of Stagnant Growth, School Overcrowding Baffles Parents
    • Cambridge MA/ Get an MIT Education for Free, with Soon-to-Launch MITx
    • New York NY/ REVIEW: 2 Papers on School Finance in Digital-Learning Era
    • Chicago IL/ COLUMN: Too Many Poor Kids Don't Know to Ask for Help
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: Levy Report-DCPS Receives Millions More than Charters
  • 17 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/17/2012)
  • • Raton/ Making the Grade
    • Española/ Schools, Media at An Impasse
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Denver CO/ Reforms Pitched for Colorado Schools' Zero-Tolerance Policies
    • Lansing MI/ 11th-Graders Start College in Michigan
    • Tijuana, MEXICO/ Transfronterizos: Young US Citizens in Mexico Brave Risks for American Schools
    • Washington DC/ In Schools, Self-Esteem Boosting Losing Favor to Rigor, Finer-Tuned Praise
  • 14-16 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/16/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ School Bond Election Next Month: Voters to Decide on 2-Mill Levy
    • Santa Fe/ Wisdom of Holding Back 3rd-Graders May Be Legislative Battleground
    • Socorro/ Grades Posted for Local Schools
    • Magdalena/ Superintendent Mike Chambers: Marks Don't Reflect How Good Schools Really Are
    • Los Lunas/ Under New Grading System: 70% Passing
    • Belen/ New PED School Grades: Only Way to Go is Up
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: A-F Has NM on Track to Serve Students
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Battle Over Social-Promotion Looms
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: School-Grading System Bypasses Critical Factors
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: New Mexico School for the Arts Enriches Community
    • Taos/ OBITUARY: Callie Williams, Taos Educator and Community Activist

    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • San Diego CA/ Review Finds Studies of Charter Schools Flawed, Problematic
    • Washington DC/Arizona Schools Finish Near Bottom in National Report Card on Education
    • London, England/ Poor Teachers 'To Be Sacked in a Term' Under Reforms
    • Los Angeles CA/ EDITORIAL: LAUSD Without Borders
    • Denver CO/ EDITORIAL: High Marks for School Choice
    • Washington DC/ COLUMN: MLK's Prescient Thinking on Education Reform
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Maintaining the Federal Role in Accountability
  • 13 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/13/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ Democrats Challenge Governor on Social Promotion
    • Santa Fe/ Democrats Oppose Governor's 3rd-Grade Retention, Offer Alterative Bill
    • Rio Rancho/ Schools Earn Mixed Grades
    • ABQ/ Grading At-Risk Students
    • Carlsbad/ Local School Districts React to PED Grades
    • Loving/ School District Has Worked Hard to Identify Areas Needing Improvement
    • Grants/ District Schools Report Cards Receive Passing Grades
    • Estancia/ 5 Schools Get A's
    • Raton/District Believes Dropout-Rate on Decline
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: District Task Force Takes on Bullying
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Denver CO/ Charters Make Denver Public Schools' Growth-Performance Look Better
    • Chicago IL/ Longer School Day Brings Promise and Questions
  • 12 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/12/2012)
  • • ABQ/ APS: Don't Worry About New School Grades
    • Santa Fe/ SFPS Schools Overall Earn C-Minus
    • Santa Fe/ A-to-F School Grading System Praised by Some Area School Districts
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: First Grades Posted
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Complex Policy Options Abound Amid International Comparisons
    • Denver CO/ Colorado Education Board Approves Charter-School Guidelines
    • New York NY/ City Charter School Finds That a Grade of 'C' Means Closing
    • Tucson AZ/ Schools' Ethnic Studies Program Dismantled, Deemed Illegal
    • Tucson AZ/ Students Confront Loss of Chicano Studies Class
    • London England/ COLUMN: UK Computer Teaching Gets With the Program
    • New York NY/ COLUMN: The Value of Teachers
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: Education in Korea: National Treasure or National Headache?
  • 11 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/11/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ Gov. Martinez Lauds State's New School Grading System
    • Santa Fe/ Report Cards for New Mexico Schools Released
    • Santa Fe/ State's Grades for Schools Released: 3 A's, 5 F's in Santa Fe
    • Deming/ School District Disputes State's Grading
    • Farmington/ State Hands Out Preliminary Letter Grades to Schools
    • Las Cruces/ Nearly Half of Las Cruces Schools Receive D Grades
    • Portales/ Local Schools Score on Low End Under New Grading System
    • Silver City/ Schools Receive Report Cards
    • Taos/ PED Grades Range from A to D in Taos Schools
    • Quay County/ Local Officials Seek More Information on PED's Grading Process
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Calls For Action To Develop 21st Century Citizens, Strengthen Democracy
    • Denver CO/ Colorado Legacy Foundation Wins $10.5 Million Grant to Push AP Courses
    • Washington DC/ Schools' New 'Scorecards' Go Beyond Testing
    • Chicago IL/ Japanese Strategy for Improving Teachers is Catching On
    • Washington DC/ Q&A: The Global Search for Education-More from Norway
    • New York NY/ Believe High School Network: Entire Charter Network Facing Closure
    • New York NY/ EDITORIAL: Troubled Online Charter Schools
    • Sacramento CA/ EDITORIAL: Online Textbooks Could Work for California
  • 10 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/10/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ SFPS Board Eyes New School Options, South-Side School Could Prompt Realignment
    • ABQ/ APS $50,000 TV Ad-Campaign Highlights Success Stories
    • Alamogordo/ Public Schools Meeting Focuses on Resources Available to Families
    • Farmington/ The Mountain School: Students Spend Winter Term as Farmers and Scholar
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Forgoing APS' Pay to Serve [in the Legislature] the Right Choice
    • Deming/ COLUMN: Assessments Vital to Learning Process
    • ABQ/ OPINION: Same Old School 'Reform' Changes Nothing
    • Las Cruces/OPINION: Moving Mathematics Forward in Our Schools
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ New Details Surface About Common State Assessments
    • Washington DC/ Literacy Wins, History Loses in '12 Federal Budget
    • New York NY/ Childhood: Exercise Yields Dividends in the Classroom
    • New York NY/ OPINION: The Reliability Problem in Grading Teachers
    • New York NY/ OPINION: The Excellence Gap
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Paying a Price, Long After the Crime
  • 7-9 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/9/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ Gov. Martinez Seeks School Aid, Tax Breaks In Budget
    • Santa Fe/ Gov. Martinez, LFC Present Budgets
    • Santa Fe/ Q&A with Governor Susana Martinez
    • Belen/ School Board Tables 5-Year District-Wide Facility Master Plan After Doubts
    • ABQ/ APS Extends Superintendent Brooks' Contract Through 2015
    • Rio Rancho/ Rep. Tim Lewis, R-Rio Rancho Taking Leave From APS
    • ABQ/ Builder to Be Selected for West Side APS High School Stadium
    • Rio Rancho/ Dad Wants School To Fix 2nd Ramp
    • Farmington/ A School District Divided: Racial, Religious Tensions Stir Up Turmoil at CCSD
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Action Teams Support Education
    • Santa Fe/ OPINION: City Bonds-Investment in the Future
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Arne Duncan: After 10 Years, It's Time for a New NCLB
    • Washington DC/ Popular Frameworks Found to Identify Effective Teachers
    • Boston MA/ Gates Foundation Report on Measuring Teacher Effectiveness: 3-Point Approach
    • Kernersville NC/ Private Sector Gets Job Skills; Public Gets Bill
    • Windham CT/ Latino Student Struggles Challenge Connecticut School Reformers
    • New York NY/ OPINION: Poverty Solution That Starts With a Hug
  • 6 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/6/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ NM Gov. Martinez's' Proposed Budget Totals $5.61 Billion
    • Santa Fe/ Legislators Prepare for Education Battles in Upcoming Session
    • Santa Fe/ Gov. Martinez Announces Funds to Support New School Grading System
    • Santa Fe/ Next Century of Statehood: Educators Predict Learning Will Become More Hands-On
    • Rio Rancho/ Judge Drops Most of Discrimination Suit, Retains NM Human Rights Act Violation
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Schools Go Green - and Save Green - with Help from Private, Foundation & Nonprofit Sectors
    • Seattle WA/ State Supreme Court Rules WA Not Meeting Duty to Fund Education
    • Denver CO/ 2 Colorado Middle Schools Offer College-Level Remedial Math Class
    • Washington DC/ 20-Year Longitudinal Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain
    • Washington DC/ Good Elementary School Teachers: They Really Can Change Your Life
    • Oakland CA/ Out-of-School Time Drawing Girls into STEM
    • New York NY/ National Report: Students of Online Schools Lagging
  • 5 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/5/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ Gov. Martinez Wants Incentives for Schools
    • Santa Fe/ Legislators Propose Spending Increase for Schools, Courts, Public Safety
    • Santa Fe/ St. Catherine's Campus Deal Moves Ahead
    • Shiprock/ Navajo Nation's Council Considering Land Lease with CCSD
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ States Expected to Focus on 3rd-Grade Retention [NM mention]
    • Washington DC/ Traditional Schools Blurring District Lines
    • West Hartford CT/ Superintendents Push Dramatic Changes for Connecticut Schools
    • Washington DC/ American Indians with Disabilities Benefit from ED Grant
  • 4 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/4/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ Gov. Martinez Proposes $5.5 Million Tied to School Grading
    • Santa Fe/ Top Education Officials Share New Plan for Improving Schools
    • Santa Fe/ City Council Considers $1.9 Million St. Catherine Campus Purchase
    • Rio Rancho/ Teacher Ray Rodriguez Pushes Students to 'Dream Big'
    • Santa Fe/ EDITORIAL: Get School Right for Agua Fría Students
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Challenges Lie Ahead for Early-Learning Grant Winners
    • Post Falls ID/ Teachers Resist High-Tech Push in Idaho Schools
    • Albany NY/ State Suspends Funding for 10 School Districts, Including NYC
    • Denver CO/ EDITORIAL: DPS Continues Progress on School Choice Reform
  • 3 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/3/2012)
  • • Belen/ Flat Stanley Project: Global Learning in Elementary School
    • ABQ/ EDITORIAL: Education Reform Too
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ OPINION: A Fourth "R" for 21st-Century Literacy
  • 31 December 2011-2 January 2012 PSFA NEWS DIGEST  (1/2/2012)
  • • Santa Fe/ Gov. Susana Martinez Pushes 3rd-Graders Law Again
    • Rio Rancho/ Education Stories in 2011: Milestones, Challenges in the Classroom and Winter Weather
    • Santa Fe/ COLUMN: Social Media Raise Issues for Educators
    NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    • Washington DC/ Brookings Report Finds Child Poverty Rising in the States [NM 2nd Highest]
    • New York NY/ Teacher Evaluation Effort Derails
    • Portland OR/ Survey Finds Education Grantmakers More Strategic in 2011
    • Los Angeles CA/ Cal State Program: Spanish Unlocks Doors to Other Languages
    • Washington DC/ Large Rewards in Teacher Pay
    • Denver CO/ EDITORIAL: Sober Approach to Brain Injuries
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