I’m convinced that the academic trajectory of New Mexico youth in high school today will be set by the classrooms, schools, districts, and ultimately communities who can blend and braid these resources in innovative ways to develop hyper-local, community driven educational experiences for high school students immediately, not five years from now. Resources, however, are only a small sliver of the equation.
The time is now for the high school experience to meet the needs of the new economy and put these new found resources to good use. However, we must not miss this window of opportunity to support the current generation of students. In fact, with respect to the game-changing early childhood and post secondary education policies and programs already in place, the nation is watching-and learning. Our state is blessed that the Executive, the Legislative Education Study Committee, the Legislative Finance Committee, and their world-class staff have fully committed to appropriating vast resources to create the proper conditions for learning for young people across the state, including over $1 billion in new, recurring resources provided in the last few years. In my five years in Santa Fe I learned without question that New Mexico is on the cusp of something special and is on track to ensure that childhood well-being is no longer negotiable. The lawsuit has found fertile ground for change with the leadership of Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and her blueprint for the Public Education Department. The Martinez/Yazzie lawsuit demands the educational program in the state of New Mexico be both adequate and sufficient for school age children, and requires the experience in schools across New Mexico to change immediately. Transformation is on the horizon and has already begun. The good news is that an opportunity to abandon the failed standardized approach to education, paired with once-in-a-generation access to resources, rests right here in New Mexico.
Physics also teaches us that when things do fall apart, it takes more energy to put them back together the way they were, compared with migration to their natural state. We had a front row seat for this unraveling during the pandemic. Entropy tells us that all things have a tendency to fall apart. In the wake of the pandemic I continue to be enamored with the second law of thermodynamics and, with it, the concept of entropy.
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