Category: Education

Bragging rights often come with discovering a  great new artist. Albuquerque Public Schools elementary school students will be showcasing at an art exhibit that opens Monday. Art is Elementary includes about 1,500 works from students in more than 90 schools across the district, said the show’s coordinator Cinnamon Gentry.  The work will include drawings, paintings […]

Lindsay Stomp recalls logging into the first session of her German-language class at La Cueva High School during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stomp, now a senior, said she saw teacher Cathy Gamble speaking fluently in the language and “thought I was in the wrong class.” She wasn’t, though the pace of the class might have suggested […]

New Mexico legislators are working on bills that will have an impact on education in general and Albuquerque Public Schools in particular, Superintendent Scott Elder says. “The Roundhouse can feel like it’s a world away, but the decisions our lawmakers and the governor make there are incredibly important and affect each and every one of […]

School board members have selected Dr. Gabriella Durán Blakey as the next superintendent of Albuquerque Public Schools. Her selection, by a unanimous vote, was announced at a press conference this morning, concluding a search that began in October. Board of Education President Danielle Gonzales noted that the search included numerous meetings and listening sessions, as […]

Albuquerque will have to wait until next week to find out who will be running its public schools. The board’s executive session lasted more than 10 hours on Wednesday before a vote to table the decision. A candidate needs at least four votes from the seven-member board before moving forward to discussing an employment contract, […]

A total ban on students’ mobile phones is not coming to Albuquerque Public Schools. The two finalists for the district’s superintendent position ruled out such a move during a public forum Tuesday at which they answered questions from APS employees. Dr. Gabriella Durán Blakey and Dr. Thomas Ahart also said that the solution to school […]

The process of selecting a replacement for outgoing Superintendent Scott Elder is nearing its end, with finalists Dr. Thomas Ahart and Dr. Gabriella Durán Blakey fielding questions from Albuquerque Public Schools students this morning. The finalists Durán Blakey is the district’s chief of operations and has previously served as an associate superintendent in the district. […]

Albuquerque Public Schools announced today that one of the three superintendent finalists chosen by the Board of Education last week, has withdrawn from the search. Mason Bellamy, who currently serves as the Chief of Academics and Schools for Metro Nashville Public Schools, informed the search firm over the weekend that he is no longer pursuing […]

After about three hours of second-round virtual interviews, in an executive session that began shortly after 10 a.m. Tuesday and ended at about 1:45 p.m., the APS Board of Education chose Thomas Ahart, Mason Bellamy and Gabriella Durán Blakey as finalists for the APS superintendent post.  The three were among four semi-finalists, including Channell Segura, and […]