By Kevin Hendricks – The Paper. All 20 seniors at RioTECH are graduating this week — every one of them holding an industry-recognized credential, and some leaving with an associate’s degree before fin...

By Kevin Hendricks – The Paper. All 20 seniors at RioTECH are graduating this week — every one of them holding an industry-recognized credential, and some leaving with an associate’s degree before fin...

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement exposing an error-riddled document from a far-right activist group released today:“The so-called Freedom Foundation has spent d...

The new Jim Crow uses rigged maps and partisan Supreme Court decisions to disenfranchise voters of color.

Teachers and parents are calling for ‘devices down, eyes up, hands on’ learning.

Inspired by the WNBPA’s historic breakthrough, we are entering negotiations with a focus on professional respect and collective power. From protected planning time to longevity recognition, discove…

Working-class Americans need a tax cut now.Americans are paying nearly 60 cents a gallon more to fill up their gas tanks following President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, a war seemingly of choice, no...

Greetings from Houston! This weekend (March 6–7), I am joining fellow AFT Regional Leaders to discuss the national landscape of public education. It is a powerful experience to stand in solidarity …

Great-Horned Owl nesting at Stapleton Elementary There is a specific kind of magic that happens at Stapleton Elementary when the notorious New Mexico wind starts to carry a blustery hint of spring.…

Americans want us to treat each other with dignity, not inhumanity.

The start of a new semester usually brings a sense of renewal to Rio Rancho, but this January, that renewal is overshadowed by a deep sense of grief and a profound disappointment in our federal lea…

You can chat with Gemini in the Google Messages app to draft messages, brainstorm ideas, plan events, or simply have a fun conversation. What you need An Android phone. Your phone’s langua

As the president of the Rio Rancho School Employees Union and a first-grade teacher at Ernest Staple ...

Photo by freestocks.org on Pexels.com The final bell of December is a sound every teacher holds dear. As a 1st grade teacher, that bell doesn’t just signal the end of a semester; it signals t…

Countless Americans declared: ‘Not on my watch.’In this season of gratitude, I’m reminded of Mister Rogers’ adage to look for the helpers.I want to lift up the helpers, people across our nation standi...

We must keep our optimism for education in spite of the challenges we currently face. Thanksgiving approaches, and across the internet, there’s a lovely chorus of gratitude directed toward ed…

"Our students and educators need a supportive federal education agency," one top Healey administration official said Wednesday.

New Mexico has enacted legislation to support food assistance with state funding each week if SNAP federal food aid falters. A bill was signed into law Monday.

There is a beautiful, profound truth captured in the simple idea from Janusz Korczak that children “should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be—the unknown person inside each…

This is the best messaging I’ve seen from any Democrats on the shutdown. Kudos to AOC, Bernie, and their teams for putting this out there.

Trump has repeatedly targeted Democrats over gender-reassignment surgeries—without explaining what he means—in blaming them for a possible government shutdown.

Teachers are under siege not for anything they do wrong, but for what they do right.

No sooner did Donald Trump begin addressing the nation about federalizing the D.C. Police Department and putting National Guard on the streets despite crime being down, MSNBC posted a bright red graph...

By Billie Helean

I just covered yet another vigil for a local kid that died. That is the third one in the last nine months.

RIO RANCHO — The local WESST office is closing in October, but New Mexico WESST will still provide services to the Rio Rancho and Sandoval County areas.

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AFT members―125 strong―from 21 states and territories gathered at the U.S. Capitol Thursday to urge members of Congress to support policies that protect public schools and their students. Speaking out...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Rio Rancho Public Schools Union president advocated for higher teacher and staff pay Thursday during a town hall meeting held by U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders and

The Education Department is refusing to release billions of dollars for public schools. See the impact by school system and congressional district.