School Board Protest Aimed at Mayor & Taos News
Video - 9min 52sec. The Brown Berets, led by Field Marshal Juanito Burns, held a protest April 15, 2010 with Taos Municipal School Board member Arsenio Cordova against Taos Mayor Darren Cordova (no relation), KVOT-AM Radio (owned by the mayor) and The Taos News.
The protest was prompted in part by a letter to the New Mexico state Department of Education asking to suspend the school board's authority due to its alleged inability to function properly, and also coverage by The Taos News critical of the board's actions.
The struggle for a student’s right to an education and control of the schools by local citizens began with the election of two minority members to the board, Lorraine Coca-Ruiz and Arsenio Cordova back in 2007. Though a minority, they brought attention to a decade of cover-ups by the Crab Hall educational elite.
Then with the election of Stella Gallegos in 2009, this trio of reformers began taking real action: fast tracking plans for athletics, remodeling buildings, and hiring professional—outside–auditors to identify problems. In other words they shook up the status quo and the status quo fought back.
Links: taosnews.com, taosfriction.com
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