Las Cruces Sun-News

The Las Cruces Sun-News is the largest of seven Gannett newspapers in New Mexico. We facilitate news coverage as a network, which is important because we plan to use this position to report from all seven sites. As a network, we publish four daily newspapers and three twice-weekly newspapers.

 

Current Position

Location: Las Cruces, New Mexico

Beat: Public education-- especially for poor residents in Las Cruces

Position:

In 2018, a New Mexico district judge ruled the state was violating the constitutional rights of at-risk students by failing to provide them with a sufficient education. New Mexico has for years been among the states ranked last on education, poverty and child welfare markers. This reporter will take the 30,000-foot view on education and poverty statewide as well as dive deep into the creative ways school districts are educating children under the new criteria mandated by the judge's ruling.

Reporter: Miranda Cyr