Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Local Educators - New Mexico Education

We discuss New Mexico early education with the following local educators:

• Sarah Smith is co-leader for the Coalition of Conservatives in Action in Las Cruces, home-schools her two teens, and designs homeschool unit studies for history and science.
• Elisa Sanchez has extensive experience with education and says New Mexico's educational system is a form of colonization, in that it’s a White curriculum that is inadequate for a multicultural/multilingual state.
• Michael Hays has a Masters in Education and an M.A. and Ph.D. from University of Michigan, and extensive teaching experience in public and private secondary schools and colleges. Before moving here he chaired the Management Committee of the Fairfax County Council of PTAs.
• Ed Frank taught for 28 years in Pennsylvania and nearby states, served a five-year-term on the Las Cruces Public Schools Board, and is currently serving a four-year term.

The show is broken into segments, in each of which we ask one guest to summarize his or her view of how to improve New Mexico education, after which the others may comment or ask questions regarding that summary.