Garden Signs and Bird Feeders Vandalized at Mountain School
Someone vandelized garden signs and bird feeders at Mountain Elementary School. Courtesy photo
LAPS News:
The Mountain Elementary School PTA has announced that garden signs and bird feeders at the school were vandalized over the weekend of June 22-23.
The PTO would like to encourage the community to keep a watchful eye out and report and any vandalism to the Mountain School principal or the Los Alamos Police Department.
The PTA will replace the classroom garden signs and feeders when school resumes in August. The gardens are funded by a grant from the LAPS Foundation and Mountain School PTA. Read More
Los Alamos Kiwanis Honors Local Student Jordan Ahlers
The Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos has kicked off its annual recognition of local students selected to recieve educational scholarships. Jordan Ahlers graduated from Los Alamos High School and was honored at a recent Kiwanis meeting. She will attend Hillsdale College in Michigan in the fall to study pre-law or engineering. From left, Kiwanian Morrie Pongratz, kneeling, her father Gary Ahlers, Jordan Ahlers, Kiwanis President Don Casperson and her mother Joan Ahlers. Kiwanis meets at noon each Tuesday at Trinity on the Hill Church in Kelly Hall. Kiwanis was founded in 1948 and focuses on Read More
Los Alamos Students Complete European Journey
Twenty four Los Alamos students celebrated on a Bateaux Mouche on the Seine their high school graduation and their 12 days traveling through Europe. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
Students at the top of Galeries Lafayette. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
View from the Padlock Bridge. Photo by Lynn OvaskaFree Bridge Lessons For Kids This Summer
Cliff Rudy, left, and Bob Walker from the Los Alamos Duplicate Bridge Club play Bridge with Cory Liechty, left, and Rebekah Lockhart, both 5th graders at Pinon Elementary School. Courtesy photoStaff Report
Members of the Los Alamos Duplicate Bridge Club are offering free bridge lessons for students in Grades 4-12. These lessons are also being sponsored by the County Recreation Department.
Classes for kids in Grades 4-7 are being held at the White Rock Library 10:45 a.m. to noon Thursdays. Classes for students in grades 7-12 are being offered 1:30-3 p.m. Fridays in the downstairs Read More
Los Alamos Makes Washington Post’s Most Challenging High School List
LAPS News
Los Alamos High School garnered national attention this past week when the Washington Post added LAHS to its 2013 “America’s Most Challenging High School” list.
Earlier in the year, US News & World Report and Newsweek included Los Alamos in their top high schools for 2013.
“I have been rating the most challenging schools in the country since 1998,” said Jay Mathews, creator of the Challenge Index and education columnist for the Washington Post. “This is by far the oldest national rating of our best schools, and the only one that focuses on how hard schools are working to raise Read More
Support for UNM-LA Mil Levy Gets Personal
Linda Daly and Michael Wismer share personal stories about UNM-LA during an interview at the college Friday. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.comThe University of New Mexico-Los Alamos is holding a special election Sept. 17, to ask local residents to approve a two mil increase in support of the campus
This will be the first operational increase since the Branch Campus was formed in 1980.
Linda Daly and Michael Wismer are former UNM-LA Advisory Board members who serve on the Los Alamos Committee for Higher Education, which is comprised of a group
Los Alamos Student Travelers Take Paris By Storm
The Eiffel Tower is tres magnifique for 24 graduating seniors from Los Alamos touring Europe on an educational trip of a lifetime. The students are discovering Paris. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
Deep thinking underway at Versaille. Photo by Lynn OvaskaRead More
School Board to Hold Executive Session Thursday
LAPS News:
The Los Alamos School Board will meet in Executive Session at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 27 to discuss a specific personnel issue
The board also will discuss the acquisition or disposal of real property per Section 10-15-1-H(8) of the Open Meetings Act.
The meeting is closed to the public. Read More
New Mexico Drops to 50 in Nation for Child Well-being
NM Drops to 50 in Nation for Child Well-being in 2013 KIDS COUNT Data Book- State improves in some areas, worsens in others
ALBUQUERQUE—For the first time New Mexico has fallen to the bottom slot—ranking 50 in the nation in overall child well-being in the 2013 national KIDS COUNT Data Book.
New Mexico has never ranked above 40 in the publication’s 20-plus year history, but this is the first time the state has ranked dead last. Last year, New Mexico ranked 49 and Mississippi was 50. The data book, released annually by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, ranks the 50 states on 16 indicators of child well-being, Read More
Los Alamos Student Travelers Tour Switzerland
Twenty-four graduating seniors from Los Alamos are touring Europe on an educational trip of a lifetime. After a long climb, they reached the top of Mt. Pilatus. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
The students view a stone lion in Lucerne. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
The group dines at their quaint Swiss Hotel. Photo by Lynn Ovaska Read More
Los Alamos Students Travel Through Alps
Twenty-four graduating seniors from Los Alamos are touring Europe on an educational trip of a lifetime. Here they are cooling off at the fountain in Innsbruck, Austria. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
Students pose outside the Swarovski Crystal World. Photo by Lynn OvaskaLAHS Makes ‘Newsweek’ List of Top High Schools
LAPS News:
Principal Sandy Warnock has announced that Los Alamos High School was on Newsweek magazine’s 2013 America’s Best High School list.
Los Alamos was ranked 780 from a group of the top 2,000 high schools in the nation.
“Once again I am reminded what a wonderful staff and student body we have who work hard to achieve their best,” Warnock said. “It is confirmation that what we do is making a difference in improving student achievement.”
Newsweek lists those high schools that have have proven to be the most effective in turning out college-ready graduates. The list is based on six Read More
Los Alamos Students Explore Germany
Twenty-four graduating seniors from Los Alamos are touring Europe on an educational trip of a lifetime. They gathered here outside the gates of Dachau Tuesday. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
Students take a tour at the BMW factory and get behind the wheel of a new BMW. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
Some of the tour group got up early for a morning run in the alps outside a hotel in Garmish, Bavaria. Photo by Lynn OvaskaBarranca Mesa Elementary Welcomes New Principal
Bradford W. Parker
LAPS News:
It is with great pleasure that Los Alamos Public Schools announces that Bradford W. Parker has accepted the position of Principal at Barranca Mesa Elementary School.
Andrea Determan, fourth grade teacher and Committee Chair of the interview committee noted that, “We were impressed with his qualifications and experience and are excited and happy to have him become a member of our school community.”
The interview committee and district leadership are excited about the leadership qualities he brings to the district.
Parker comes to Barranca Mesa Elementary Read More
Update: School Board Meets in Two Sessions June 27
LAPS News:
The Los Alamos School Board has scheduled an Executive Session at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 27 at the Los Alamos High School Athletic Conference Room to discuss a specific personnel issue per Section 10-15-1-H(2) of the Open Meetings Act.
The Board has scheduled a work session at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 27 in the Los Alamos High School Speech Theater.
Revised: The agenda items include the IRS Briefing Report, a safety presentation and a review of School Board policies 8000–9000. Read More
Los Alamos Students Visit Dresden and Prague
Twenty-four graduating seniors from Los Alamos are touring Europe on an educational trip of a lifetime. This church in Dresden was totally rebuilt after being bombed in World War II. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
Students pay a visit to Prague Castle in the Czech Republic. Photo by Lynn OvaskaLos Alamos Students Take In Berlin
Twenty-four graduating seniors from Los Alamos are touring Europe on an educational trip of a lifetime. Here they are taking their first subway ride in Berlin. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
Students visit the Berlin Wall. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
Students pose at the Brandenberg Gate. Photo by Lynn Ovaska
Visiting the Holocaust Memorial. Photo by Lynn Ovaska Read More
NM Delegation Introduces Bill to Improve Tribal Education
CONGRESSIONAL News:
WASHINGTON– Friday, June 14, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, along with Reps. Ben Ray Luján, Michelle Lujan Grisham, and Steve Pearce announced they have introduced legislation to improve tribal education and preserve Native American language in schools.
Graduation rates for American Indians and Alaska Natives are less than 50 percent – lower than the graduation rates for all other ethnic groups in the United States. The Building Upon Unique Indian Learning and Development (BUILD) Act would remove barriers that tribal leaders often encounter in teaching Read More
UNM-LA Launches Mil Levy Campaign Wednesday
UNM-LA News:
The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos will kick off a campaign Wednesday, June 19, asking for voter support of a mil levy special election set for Sept. 17.
A successful election will afford financial stability and sustainability of programs and services in light of diminishing state funding.
Wednesday’s two-part event will take place on the UNM-LA campus and will consist of a roundtable discussion with elected officials at 11:00 a.m. in room 505, Wallace Hall, followed at noon by a public luncheon in the Student Center Café.
The luncheon, provided by Our Read More
Student’s ‘Think Big’ Essay Earns Scholarship
Nathanial Matteson, winner of the June Ettinger Memorial Scholarship. Photo by Don Taylor’s Photography
LAPSF News:
The Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation awarded Nathanial Matteson the June Ettinger Memorial Scholarship.
Matteson’s winning essay was written about the book “Think Big” authored by Dr. Ben Carson. In this book, Carson tells the story of being pushed by his mother to write weekly book reports and how this exercise eventually nurtured his enchantment for medical science.
Matteson’s essay tells the story of the author inspiring a very young boy, both Read More
