New Mexico Mercury

Pearson will keep its contract with PARCC for now

AG hires new public corruption unit chief

Taos Teacher Bunks Bonus

More applying for unemployment benefits

ABQ VA: Death will be reviewed

Allen Parkman: New Mexico isn’t the place for economic activity

Dodgy Art Bar Finally Shuttered

All of us who are educated to Susana New Mexico standards and who have proudly displayed our third grade reading proficiency certificates know that art is exceptionally dangerous. We should avoid ahtsy fahtsie and those who create it as much as is humanly possible. That means on seeing a known artist, one should smile politely, lower one’s head, and without dispatch, cross to the other side of the street.

Think, if you will then, how really menacing and perilous art is when mixed with demon rum...

Value-Added Scores Finally Explained by NM Education Department

This summer, an ongoing action by New Mexico teachers is to send in Inspection of Public Records requests (IPRAs, for short), asking the Public Education Department (PED) to send evidence that backs up teacher evaluation reports received this year, and the means used to calculate the scores.  We’ve waited.  We’ve waited some more.  Finally, some of those teachers received notices that the request is “burdensome,” and it would take the PED longer than expected.

Which is silly, since the PED happily reported the results of teacher evaluations to the press long before teachers were allowed to see them (and, of course, none of those press outlets thought to ask for substantiation).  You’d think PED would have access to the reports quickly, since they just finished them up...

El Machete: The Unjustices

The Unjustices

Friday Voyage: The Ludlow Massacre Memorial

Just north of the New Mexico/Colorado border sits the site of one of the worst repressive actions against working people in the history of our country.