Lawmakers push for paid parental leave for teachers – Natalie Robbins, Albuquerque Journal
New Mexico teachers are left out of a policy guaranteeing paid parental leave to state employees. Some state legislators hope this will change next year.
Without paid maternity leave, teachers who have children are forced to use their sick time or vacation days, or try to time their childbirth with summer vacation — a task that can be difficult to impossible, said Whitney Holland, president of the New Mexico chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest labor union in the United States…