![Del Norte Elementary Principal Kristin Bischoff enjoys a moment with Christopher Ruszkowski, cabinet secretary for New Mexico Public Education Department as GMCS Superintendent Mike Hyatt observes. Photo credit: Deswood Tome](/images/resized/images/news/2016/136_nov10/23_100_100.jpg)
Some months have passed since Del Norte elementary in north Gallup earned an A grade from the New Mexico Public Education Department.
It is one of three schools in the Gallup McKinley County Schools district that received the stellar grade, based on a set of criteria from PED that schools must meet to earn the top grade.
Lincoln Elementary and Tse Yi Gai High School are the other two schools on the honor roll.
“Good morning boys and girls,” PED Secretarty Christopher Ruszkowski said, before the hundres of students in the new Del Norte Elementary gymnasium. “Both of your schools last year—you are all here together—are going like this,” Ruszkowski said, as he used his...