Albuquerque Public Schools: Thanks To All! Now, Next

Press release from Albuquerque Public Schools:

April 5, 2021

• Our Food and Nutrition Services workers who, as of last week, have served more than 7.3 million meals during the pandemic.
• Our custodians who keep classrooms, hallways and campuses clean and safe from the contagious virus.
• Our Maintenance and Operations crews who completed more than 18,500 work orders to prepare our schools for reopening.
• Our school leaders who stand as pillars of strength and confidence in their communities even as they themselves are figuring out how to navigate ever-shifting circumstances.
• Our teachers who never stop teaching or caring for their students, and the educational assistant and school support staff who work alongside them, even when they aren't in the same room.
• Our school nurses, who work to keep our kids healthy and the virus from spreading and also who, in many cases, help vaccinate our community so that we can feel safer about returning to school.
• Our technology team, which has played a crucial role in getting devices to students, programs and training to teachers, support to all.
• Our counselors and social workers who provide social and mental health care for students and their families along with academic guidance.
• Our bus drivers, who for months have provided transportation for in-person special education services and who will now get many more of our students to and from school.
• Our school secretaries who, among many other duties, make sure we have qualified substitute teachers in our classrooms when needed (and those substitute teachers, too!)  
• And all of our administrative staff, from those who make sure our employees get hired and paid to those who work closely with community partners in getting families the support they need.

This press release was produced by Albuquerque Public Schools. The views expressed here are the author’s own.