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All posts tagged "New Mexico"
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629GrantsNew Mexico child well-being and development grants
GRANT FOCUS: Child Welfare/Well-being, Child Health/Development, Education, SEL, New Mexico | Amount: Up to $10,000 | Deadline: Mar. 9, 2024
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362NewsQ&A: Child care workers organize for better pay and treatment
Workers are exceptionally hard to unionize, due to high turnover rates and geographic spread.
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1.2KNewsHomeless shelters aren’t equipped to deal with New Mexico’s most troubled foster kids. Police see it for themselves.
"What we’re doing here?” a sheriff’s deputy asked his supervisor after a shelter call.
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745GrantsSouthern New Mexico arts, education and child hunger project grants
GRANT FOCUS: Arts/Culture, Education, Child Hunger, Child/Youth Welfare, New Mexico | Amount: $1,000 - $8,000 | Deadline: May 5, 2023
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610NewsFood for thought: Free meals for all New Mexico students
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed legislation to provide free school meals to all students.
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687NewsNew Mexico has lost track of juveniles locked up for life. We found nearly two dozen.
An upcoming bill could grant these youth their freedom, if they can be identified.
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382MagazinesNew Mexico Child Welfare special edition magazine
Take a peek below at our New Mexico Child Welfare magazine cover. One click takes you to our Special Edition: Summer 2022...
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1.0KAdvertisingRead in-depth coverage of challenges facing youth in New Mexico
Youth Today’s New Mexico Child Welfare: Special Edition Summer 2022 examines the problems facing New Mexico's youth — from foster care to...
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1.5KNewsiPad rentals, emergency funds and food pantries: What it takes to make “free college” work for all students
Since moving to New Mexico from her home country of Malaysia in 2017, Nuraisyah A Mohd Hilmi has paused her college education...
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1.2KNewsNew Mexico child welfare agency gets funding boost
New Mexico’s child protective services department is set to receive a funding boost officials say will be used to improve services for...
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3.0KNewsNew Mexico lags in mandated foster care reforms
Two years after New Mexico agreed to overhaul its foster care system in response to a lawsuit claiming it systematically re-traumatizes children...
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1.2KNewsNew Mexico to offer equal pay to Native American teachers
New Mexico will begin to offer equal pay to dozens of Indigenous language teachers as part of a new law aimed at...
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1.8KNewsNew Mexico to create new legal aid office for child welfare cases
Child welfare professionals in New Mexico are applauding passage of a bill they say will improve legal representation for youth and families...
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1.1KNewsNew Mexico lawmakers, citing political frustrations, pull juvenile justice reform bill
Proposed reforms to New Mexico’s juvenile sentencing rules failed to become law for a second year in a row after the bill’s...
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1.4KNewsNew approach to teaching race in school divides New Mexico
A proposal to overhaul New Mexico's social studies standards has stirred debate over how race should be taught in schools, with thousands...
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1.2KNewsEducators skeptical of states’ plans to solve staffing shortages with bureaucrats, troops
At least three states have called on public employees or National Guard troops to fill in as substitute teachers, bus drivers and...
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1.7KNewsNew Mexico child welfare agency seeks more funding as lawmakers convene
The New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department (CYFD), which oversees child protective services, is asking the state Legislature for a $41.5...
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886NewsNew Mexico education officials miss transparency deadline
An initiative aimed at providing greater accountability for public spending on education missed its inaugural deadline. The New Mexico Public Education Department...
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1.3KNewsEducation funding on ballots in New Mexico cities’ elections
Local governments across New Mexico are seeking to renew property taxes to pay for school buildings, computers and air ventilation systems even...
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1.2KNewsNew Mexico awards $157M in grants to child care providers
New Mexico's child care department is sending millions to child care centers in an effort to keep them in business, awarding grants...
