NewsNM (Swickard) Isn't it interesting that some state senators say we need to consolidate school districts and in this case some say we need to make more districts?From KOB-TV.com - by Eddie Garcia, KOB Eyewitness News 4; Taryn Bianchin, KOB.com - The latest move to split the Albuquerque Public School district in half arrives at the state senate in the form of a proposed bill - the first of it's kind. As it stands, 60 percent of Westside voters must sign a petition to obtain a hearing to split APS into two districts. "There are 68,385 registered voters on the Westside...that would mean 40,800 petition signatures--that's impossible," said Senator Bernadette Sanchez, a Democrat who represents part of Albuquerque's Westside in District 26. State Senator Bernadette Sanchez's bill (SB 219) proposes dropping that number to 10 percent meaning the petition would only need around 6,800 signatures. Sanchez says she's met opposition from State Senator Linda Lopez (D) District 11, who also represents the Westside. Lopez has introduced a bill (SB 351) that would require 60 percent of all registered voters in the entire district to sign a petition. Read more
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Who cares really in the sense that these freaking politicians are psycho and have no idea what's in anyone's best interest but their own.
You should note that Linda Lopez WAS ASKED BY APS to bring up legislation that would make it MORE DIFFICULT to break up a WAY too large of a school district. Why should we trust a bill brought on by someone who is pretty much only representing APS:
From the ABQ Journal--2/14/11
"The second (bill), sponsored by Democratic Sen. Linda Lopez at the request of Albuquerque Public Schools, would increase the petition requirement to 60 percent of voters from the existing district, rather than from just the area that would become a new district."
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