RISD Improves District Grade to C for 2015 16
Roswell Independent School District earned a C district grade for 2015 16 based on 21 schools including one A rated charter and an elementary school among the state's lowest performers. Superintendent Burris credits progress to teachers and tools amid major K 12 changes, with PARCC and Common Core shifting instruction.
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Roswell Independent School
Tom Burris
Edu
Cation
New Mexico
Burris
PARCC
New Mexico Public Education Department
Public Education Department
RISD
Hometown Olympian Gerina Piller speaks at Roswell civic luncheon
Golf pro and Goddard High School graduate Gerina Piller addressed the 67th All Civics Luncheon at the Roswell Convention and Civic Center. She described her rise from sponsor-less years to a top 20 world ranking and thanked Roswell and El Paso supporters for helping her pursue golf.
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Gerina Piller
Roswell Convention & Civic Center
Piller
U.S
Roswell
el Paso
Texas
Roswell considers $18 million recreation and hangar bond plan
City Councilor Henderson urged voters approve an $18 million bond for a new recreation and aquatic center at Cielo Grande while exploring use of gross receipts tax to fund a hangar at Roswell International Air Center. Mayor Kintigh favors a GRT bond though supports a fallback general obligation bond if needed. Decision needed soon to target a 2018 opening.
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Roswell
Steve Henderson
General Services Committee
Cielo Grande
Roswell International Air Center
Air Center
Henderson
Dennis Kintigh
Kintigh
Elizabeth Stark-Rankins
Pressure mounts on public defenders amid funding crisis
A southern New Mexico district attorney asked the state Supreme Court to order public defense lawyers back to work for indigent defendants. Dianna Luce cited over 200 withdrawals by the Law Offices of the Public Defender as funding woes escalate.
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Santa FE
New Mexico
State Supreme Court
Dianna Luce
Supreme Court
Public Defender
NM Activists Plan 100 Immigrant Rights Forums
Advocates in southern New Mexico and West Texas said they will hold 100 community forums on immigrant rights from now until the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. The Border Network for Human Rights and Reform Immigration for Texans will organize the events to address potential policy changes.
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Texas
Albuquerque
New Mexico
West Texas
Inau
Donald Trump
Border Network For Human Rights
Reform Immigration
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