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New Mexico Teacher Licensure Solution

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The New Mexico Licensure system completed another successful session today, March 31st., In the end, failure can literally mean that a teacher is no longer able to practice in New Mexico. Evidence of high quality teaching can mean advances in licensure and increased compensation.

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School employee stole 3,000 Apple iPods earmarked for Native American kids

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She ran a program that used iPods to teach reading and math to underprivileged Native American schoolkids living on tribal land. Now, 46-year-old Kristy Stock of New Mexico is getting 18 months in prison for stealing 3,000 of them, which she resold for a personal gain of over $800,000 between 2013 and 2018.

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Neobank Vexi raises millions to offer young Mexicans lower interest rate credit cards

TechCrunch

In countries such as Mexico, it’s a much more difficult and less common endeavor. We all come from middle class families here in Mexico. Image Credits: Vexi Mexico City-b ased Vexi describes itself as a neobank but doesn’t offer checking or savings accounts — yet. is considered extremely high.

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Stori raises $32.5M in a Lightspeed-led Series B to build Mexico’s credit card for the masses

TechCrunch

In Mexico in particular, cash remains the dominant method of payment with an estimated 86% of all payments being in the form of cash. According to one recent study , Mexico topped the list of the world’s fastest growing e-commerce markets. And for the founders of Mexico City-based startup Stori , they spell opportunity.

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Innovamat tallies up $21M to reinvent math education

TechCrunch

When it comes to education, mathematics has long been considered one of the most challenging of subjects both to learn and to teach. It has been around since 2017, operating initially in Spain before expanding to Italy and several countries in Latin America (Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Brazil and Peru). in New Jersey.

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Mexico’s cultural appropriation ban is off to a messy start

The Verge

It’s the same one that, years later, she would teach to her seven children. But now, Mexico’s Indigenous and Afro-Mexican communities are being sold a solution — or, at least, something that looks like one. There are nearly 17 million Indigenous people in Mexico, representing around 15 percent of the total population, and over 2.5

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Henry picks up cash to be a Lambda School for Latin America

TechCrunch

They’re focusing on all emerging markets and don’t teach to Spanish speakers,” Borchardt said. It plans to expand into Mexico and to bring on Portuguese instruction. Henry thinks the competitor is approaching the dynamic too broadly. VCs bet millions on Microverse, a Lambda School for the developing world.

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