Every Hobbs secondary school participated in a weekend Science Olympiad Regional competition at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. The majority of the Hobbs teams qualifed for the state contest on Feb. 23 at New Mexico Tech in Socorro. In addition, there were a number of first-place finishers from individual schools. Hobbs High School finished in third-place overall in the …

The Hobbs Municipal Schools is ramping up the exploration of a possible career technician school in Hobbs. The idea is to gather as much information about the impact and cost such a school would have in the Hobbs community and then present it to voters for bond approval. During his report to the Hobbs School Board last week, Superintendent TJ …

An early childhood educator of 38 years standing left a message asking if I had advice for encouraging cooperation from parents. She reports what every veteran teacher (defined as having 20 years or more classroom experience) I have spoken with over the past 40 years reports: to wit, that it is the rare parent who does not become defensive, even …

New Mexico Junior College and Texas Tech University have signed a memorandum of understanding to help students transfer more easily to Texas Tech. Kelvin Sharp, president of NMJC, and Lawrence Schovanec, president of Texas Tech University, met in Lubbock to sign the historic agreement. The institutions also signed an animal sciences agreement that will allow students at NMJC to feed …

A group of Lovington High School video gamers won’t be competing in state eSport tournaments this season after the Board of Education tabled a motion to approve student participation in eGame competitions early this month. “This is brand new to the whole state, not just to Lovington,” said Lovington High School Athletic Director and Activity Coordinator Robert Arreola about eGaming. …

Broadmoor students, teachers and staff were feeling blue Monday, and that was a good thing. The Hobbs elementary school was recognized as the only New Mexico public school to receive a National Blue Ribbon School honor for its work in making “notable improvements in closing the achievement gap,” according to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. That work took place …

EUNICE — Struggling to alleviate traffic congestion around the city’s schools, the Eunice City Council again attacked the issue with discussion and the first reading of a new ordinance Tuesday. The council approved an ordinance during the summer switching one-way travel on certain streets in the area of Eunice schools during school hours in the school year, but some of …

XTO Energy donates $50,000 With oil prices on the rise and the industry booming, the need for a skilled and specialized workforce is greater than ever. New Mexico Junior College has partnered with ExxonMobil subsidiary XTO Energy to prepare and train students as potential employees for the energy industry. XTO donated $50,000 to NMJC for location equipment, program upgrades, and …

COLUMN by TJ PARKS, HMS superintendent Perhaps Mark Twain put it best: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” The quote was used to discredit statistical analysis. All too often we rely on statistics – which we correlate as data – to explain the past and predict the future. The problem is that data is only …

HMS gets mixed grade results A mixed bag of emotions landed on the doorstep of Hobbs Municipal Schools when district officials learned the grades for 18 Hobbs schools from the 2017-18 school year. The report card was handed out by the New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED) to school officials Thursday night and became available to the public on Friday. …