SCHOOLS RESUME ONLINE LEARNING AMID ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Children across the state went back to school last week—via the internet. Despite cases dramatically falling across the state, Gov. Lujan Grisham has decided to keep schools closed until at least after Labor Day. This is causing detrimental harm to our children and our future generation of New Mexicans. Online school has led to inequitable treatment of our children as not all children have equal access to the internet, technology, and an environment that is conducive to online learning. Our children deserve to go back to school; the science is in and children are not the problem. It's time to let our children go back to school and receive the proper education they are entitled to.

Read our Minority Engagement Group Op-Ed in the Albuquerque Journal.

STATE REACHES COVID-19 CASE GOALS—IT'S TIME TO REOPEN

New Mexico has reached its COVID-19 goal for reopening. It's time to reopen our state. We are now close to month seven of the Lujan Lockdown. The need to reopen businesses and allow our children to return to the classroom cannot be understated. Since the start of this public health shutdown, businesses have been destroyed, workers have lost their jobs, industries have been pushed to the brink of collapse, and children are being deprived of their education. New Mexico cases have always remained low, but that didn't stop the Governor from favoring big box stores and destroying small businesses in the name of public health. There is no reason why businesses should continue to be shuttered. We watched mass gatherings at protests over the summer and at big box stores like Walmart—meanwhile mom-and-pop shops were forced to close their doors permanently. While other states have continued to reopen their economies and build back their prosperity, we remain stuck. Governor, it's time to reopen New Mexico.

Here's the full story from the Albuquerque Journal.