Kirtland News

Citing a loophole in state law, the Public Education Department has delayed by two weeks its decision on whether the Central Consolidated School District should split, allowing the Kirtland area to break off and form a new district.

The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission has taken a stand against the proposed split of the Central Consolidated School District.

This is the real show. Outside the arena, around the parking lot, after the graduation ceremonies at the University of New Mexico Pit; it's the moment after and the moment before - a celebration which the graduate thinks is all about him or her but which is really about the entire enterprise - the family effort that put them into this brief moment ... (more)

New Mexico education Secretary-Designate Hanna Skandera will make that determination, after listening to four hours of arguments at a quasi-judicial hearing last week at San Juan College in Farmington.

Tso, 33, is president of the Central Consolidated School Board and is leading the district in a crusade to stop a group of Kirtland community members from splitting the district along the Navajo Nation border.

State Education Secretary-designate Hanna Skandera has 10 days to answer that question, based in part on remarks made Wednesday during a four-hour, quasi-judicial public hearing at San Juan College.

Arguments for and against the proposed split of the Central Consolidated School District will be heard Wednesday during a public meeting hosted by the state Public Education Department.

A serial drunken driver pleaded guilty Monday to killing two people and severely injuring several others during a November crash on U.S. 550.

A marine who served four years and survived a tour in Iraq comes home to New Mexico only to be shot.

Gaherty also said he has identified funds that flowed improperly from New Mexico Title Co.