From Las Cruces SunNews Oct.7 2013
LAS CRUCES >> The New Mexico Public Education Commission approved the charter for a new health-focused middle and high school, the Health Sciences Academy, to open in the Gadsden school district next fall.
The new school will begin recruiting students for seventh through tenth grade next spring, with plans to add grades 11 and 12 over the next two years.
Ron Haugen, a former superintendent of Gadsden and Anthony, Texas, school districts, will be the school’s top administrator.
The El Paso Children’s Hospital, La Clinica de la Familia and New Mexico State University’s College of Health Sciences have agreed to create internships at their facilities for the high school students, the school’s founders say.
The school will also offer evening classes to adults who haven’t earned their diplomas.
For more information, contact Raphael Nevins, a member of the school’s governing board, at 505-463-3152.
Last we heard, the proposed LCPS ECHS Health version was delayed by a moratorium by state on new charter schools, iirc. Now this is approved for Gadsden for next fall, so one wonders if that means the LCPS version is to be approved soon…or what it’s present status might be.
Creation of internships sounds very good for Gadsden version, which is a bit different in that it’s also “Middle School” as well as HS. Also wonder if we have met Ron Haugen in our previous meetings with GISD.