Yolanda Tafoya

Community school coordinator

Yolanda Tafoya is community school coordinator and music teacher at Arrey Community Elementary in Arrey, New Mexico. She is a graduate of New Mexico State University with a degree in Community Health. She began working at Arrey Community Elementary in 2009 when her daughter started Pre-K at the school.

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Feb 14, 2022

When a School is the Very Heart of a Community

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I’d love to see more and more public schools become community schools, especially in these difficult times.

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When Public Schools Close, Our Communities Suffer

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The Missouri GOP supermajority has been defunding our public schools for over a decade, but the last five years have been at breakneck speed.

Houston ISD Hostile State Takeover: Our Fight to Take Back Our Schools

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State-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles is taking Houston ISD down the road to perdition and our children are the losers.

HB 1422 Cyber Charter Reform – A Bipartisan Call to Get it Done

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Lawrence Feinberg and Robert Gleason

Statewide, the reforms included in HB 1422 could save school districts – and taxpayers – more than $400 million.

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