Just as the school year was getting underway, Head of School Julianne Puente participated in an Albuquerque Business First panel discussion about education in our state. The audience was made up almost entirely of CEOs, with about 70 attending in person and more online.
The discussion, which included Kyle Rhodes, president and CEO of PESCO; Amanda Aragon, executive director of NewMexicoKidsCan; and moderators from Business First, covered bright spots, solutions, and a call for support from the business community.
“Our teachers teach 60 kids,” Julianne said. “Our colleagues at any public school have 140. What they are being asked to do, I have enormous respect for, but they can’t know their kids the way our teachers know their kids. There are some things that we do that can be replicated in certain ways. I also understand that we have a kind of freedom that not everybody does.”
