Doña Ana County maps out plan for early childhood education

Doña Ana County has stopped waiting on Santa Fe for a plan to ramp up early childhood education, and is creating a model that has the potential to work in the rest of New Mexico. The county has partnered with NM State University, creating a research center with NMSU's Center for Community Analysis to put hard data behind the effort to examine the reasons why many children aren’t receiving early education, which has been proven to help eliminate the achievement gap for low-income children and promote early brain development and significant improvement in personal relationships