Andy Brosig/News-Sun Reducing the amount of required data New Mexico schools have to file with the state is at the center of a recently-completed overhaul at the New Mexico Public Education Department. While school administrators in Lea County hope the lightening of the requirements will help, many are still waiting for specifics of the plan. “I don’t think we’ll realize …

Andy Brosig/News-Sun The opening of the Career Technical Education Center Hobbs created vacancies in several rooms at Hobbs High School that once housed classes and-moved to the new facility. Visual arts is one of the programs which benefitted, giving student artists and their instructor, John McMillan, a new place to call home in the former construction and engineering classroom in …