Education

WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández announced she secured over $74 million for NM-03 through community project funding requests in appropriations legislation.  Read more »

WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández announced she secured key policy provisions in appropriations legislation to help Tribal communities, expand the clean energy workforce, protect Chaco Canyon, fund rural water programs, protect students from lunch shaming, address access to firearms as a means to prevent suicides, and more.   Read more »

Leger Fernández Secured Head Start Grants in the American Rescue Plan Read more »

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández told a crowd of educators and parents on Friday that she wants federal help to cap child care costs and raise pay for child care workers. Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández joined NM Voices for Children, Mora Independent School District Head Start Coordinator, and Shanci Salazar, a single mother and Jicarilla Apache Tribal member to talk about the impact the expanded Child Tax Credit will have on New Mexico’s families. The group discussed how important it is for families that the payments will come on a… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández announced nearly $143 million in emergency funding for colleges, universities, and students in New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District under the American Rescue Plan. “I’ve spent the last two weeks meeting with our local colleges and universities to discuss their needs as we work to get through the pandemic. I am inspired… Read more »

WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM) and Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) introduced legislation that would create a new grant program administered by the Department of Labor to hire America’s unemployed and underemployed journalists and writers to document the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.  Read more »

Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03), New Mexico's Early Childhood Education and Care Department Secretary Elizabeth Groginsky, Lieutenant Governor Howie Morales, and Annette Arellano, a Pre-K teacher from Taos, released the following statements after a virtual press conference on the American Rescue Plan’s impact on early childhood education and development, including… Read more »

WASHINGTON - Today, President Biden announced his American Jobs Plan to reimagine and rebuild a new economy. Read more »

SANTA FE - Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández released the following statement in response to the New Mexico legislature approving the sending of a constitutional amendment to increase funding for early childhood and K-12 education to the state’s voters:  “Our children face high poverty rates and low student outcomes in New Mexico. We know - both scientifically… Read more »