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PCA Opens South Valley Colibrí Children’s Play Garden and the Cariño Lending Library!

PCA Partners with UNM Cariño to Open South Valley Lending Library ALBUQUERQUE, NM – The Partnership for Community Action (PCA) is celebrating the grand opening of the Colibrí: Interactive Children’s Play Garden & the UNM Cariño Early Childhood Toy & Lending Library with an Open House this coming Monday August 10th from 12PM-6:00PM. This marks the PCA’s second major investment …

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It’s time to replace high-stakes testing with real learning

Adrian Pedroza, PCA’s Executive Director, recently published an Editorial that was featured in the Albuquerque Journal. The editorial offers insight into education in New Mexico. The full editorial is below: It’s time to replace high-stakes testing with real learning Earlier this year the Public Education Department (PED) published graduation rates in Albuquerque and across the state.  Albuquerque has improved slightly …