From the Las Vegas Optic The New Mexico Public Education Department released its letter grades for school districts and sites across the state on Aug. 16. No site within Mora Schools district earned higher than a C, with Mora Elementary falling from a B to an F. Holman Elementary received a C, down from a…
From the las Vegas Optic U.S. Senate candidate Mick Rich made a stop in Las Vegas on Thursday afternoon to address a small group of people at the San Miguel County GOP Headquarters on Bridge Street. The event was touted as a discussion on combating opioid abuse and overdose fatalities; however, neither topic was discussed.…
From the Las Vegas Optic For the past six years, the Public Education Department has been grading schools’ performance using an A-through-F letter grade system. For the 2017-18 school year, two schools in the West Las Vegas School District received an A, three others received a C, and five were given an F. Union Elementary…
From the Las Vegas Optic Just in time for students to return to class, Las Vegas-area school districts and the rest of the state received report cards from the New Mexico Public Education Department. Using the PED’s A-F letter grade system — determined by measuring categories such as graduation rates, attendance and performance on standardized…
From the Las Vegas Optic During a special meeting of the Board of Education on Wednesday, West Las Vegas Schools discussed enacting policies that would require drug testing of staff members and students. Board member Ambrosio Castellano began the discussion by stressing his desire to formulate a policy that would require new employees to be…
Originally published by Firebrand Progressives An average screen-printed T-shirt costs around $15. Someone earning the current federal minimum wage would have to work more than two hours to buy one. And while prices for nearly everything consumers purchase continue to go up, minimum wage rarely increases. From September 1997 to July 2007, the federal…
Originally published by the Progressive Populist The scene was horrific. Over 2,500 people trapped helplessly beneath rubble—some for more than 12 hours—waiting for rescuers to find them. Over 1,100 other people didn’t get out alive. This was one year ago this week at the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh, a leading producer of clothing…
Originally published by Firebrand Progressives It was quitting time when someone noticed the fire in a scrap bin on Saturday, March 25, 1911. Inside the Triangle Waist Company factory, eight stories above New York’s Greenwich Village, hundreds were preparing to leave work for the day, but unbeknownst to most people in the factory, the…
