By Cynthia Miller The New Mexican Orginal Story Many parents, providers and advocates say the state’s proposed new plan to expand and improve the quality of child care across New Mexico doesn’t go far enough to ease the strain on low-income working families and that reimbursements to providers under the plan would be too low
Posted: Saturday, February 13, 2016 10:45 pm | Updated: 11:47 pm, Sat Feb 13, 2016. By Cynthia Miller The New Mexican Original Story Matt Esquibel, who manages the state’s child protective services office in Santa Fe County, got an odd request about a year ago from his newly appointed boss. Monique Jacobson, who had just
Contact: Ernie Watson (505) 761-4951 Albuquerque, New Mexico, August 31, 2015 — Original Story USDA Rural Development State Director Terry Brunner traveled to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico to present a certificate of obligation that allows the AppleTree Educational Center to expand its services. “USDA funding helps meet a sixteen year dream for this school,” said
By Shannon Rudisill, Director, Office of Child Care Orginal Story For low-income children, summer learning matters. According to research cited by the National Summer Learning Association, “more than half of the achievement gap between lower- and higher-income youth[s] can be explained by unequal access to summer learning opportunities” (Alexander et al., 2007). A new, large-scale