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The longest-serving member of the current Las Cruces Public Schools Board of Education has announced she will not be a candidate for re-election this November.
Maria Flores was first elected to represent District 3 on the school board in 2009, winning by two votes in a three-way race. She was re-elected by wide margins in 2013 and 2017, and her term, like the terms of many other elected officials around the state, was extended by almost a year when New Mexico adopted the Local Elections Act that combined school board, city council and other local elections.
“I think 12 years and 10 months is long enough,” Flores said in an email to the Bulletin. “It has been an honor to serve but it is time for someone else to step forward. My time on the Board of Education has been exciting, challenging and gratifying overall.”
Flores taught for 15 years at Tombaugh Elementary School before being elected to the board. She has nearly 30 years of service as an LCPS parent volunteer, teacher and school board member.
Flores and her husband, Dr. Ernest A. Flores, are the parents of three LCPS graduates – two from Las Cruces High School and one from Mayfield.
Flores, who has served as both president and vice president of the board of education, was one of the founding members of the Children’s Reading Alliance and has served for three years as a Big Sister through the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization.
