ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Tanya Vargas was one of several mothers and high school students left wiping away tears at City Hall on Friday.
Vargas’ son, Jordan Vargas, a senior at Farmington High School, was one of several New Mexico students who learned Friday that they had been awarded the Daniels Scholarship.
The Vargases and about 10 other families from northern New Mexico were summoned to City Hall in Albuquerque under the guise that Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller was making a higher education announ