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The court found that the New Mexico Public Education Department and the State were not complying with earlier court orders and continued to violate at-risk students’ constitutional education rights. It concluded that a comprehensive remedial action plan was necessary. The order directs NMPED to develop a plan with stakeholder and plaintiff participation, file progress reports, and submit a final plan for the court...
Ahead of the April hearing, KUNM speaks with plaintiff Wilhelmina Yazzie and advocate Loretta Trujillo about resources, teaching and community participation in education reform.
A policy brief reports that PED responded to the plaintiffs’ motion for a remedial action plan. PED said it was willing to work toward a plan but opposed the plaintiffs’ request that LESC mainly author it. The brief describes the parties’ different positions: plaintiffs argued that a lack of a comprehensive plan and poor student outcomes showed noncompliance, while PED argued that educational inputs, including fun...
A July 16, 2024 presentation to New Mexico legislative committees reviews the Martinez-Yazzie lawsuit, court findings, and state actions and reported outcomes. The presentation describes the court’s findings on educational resources and student outcomes, then compares those findings with legislative and executive actions and local outcome measures.
A July 2024 Legislative Finance Committee presentation recounts the Martinez-Yazzie case, in which plaintiffs alleged that New Mexico was not providing sufficient funding and programs for at-risk public school students. The presentation says the District Court ruled in 2019 that educational inputs were inadequate and student outcomes were “dismal.” The presentation describes a range of state responses, including i...
An interview with then-PED Secretary Arsenio Romero about the department’s response to the ruling and Attorney General Raúl Torrez’s proposed role in the litigation.
Trip Jennings interviews Attorney General Raúl Torrez about why he sought to take over the state’s litigation in the education equity case.
Russell Contreras interviews MALDEF president Thomas Saenz about the state’s response to the ruling and the Martinez plaintiffs’ priorities.
The Line opinion panel discusses state compliance with the lawsuit and Constitutional Amendment 1. This is a panel discussion rather than a court finding.
This September 2022 Legislative Finance Committee brief reviews New Mexico’s progress after the 2018 Martinez-Yazzie ruling. It reports that the court found the state had not provided sufficient funding and directed state entities to work together on remedies. The brief compares school funding with the 2008 AIR study’s inflation-adjusted estimate. It reports that FY23 funding through the state equalization guarant...