Documents, summaries, and commentary, with original document dates and sources.
KUNM interviews attorney Alisa Diehl about the plaintiffs’ request to revise the state’s education plan and bring community expertise into implementation.
Reports on PED’s request for approval of its remedial plan and its response to the plaintiffs’ objections about implementation and accountability.
Covers the plaintiffs’ February objections to the remedial plan, including concerns about benchmarks, funding and responsibility for carrying out changes. Includes PED’s response.
Examines lawmakers’ questions about the revised action plan and the relationship between education funding, implementation and measurable improvement.
Reports on plaintiffs’ and disability advocates’ criticism of the October draft, including requests for more specific actions and clearer measures of progress.
Parents and educators at a Silver City community meeting describe needs in special education, communication with families and accountability as PED gathers input for its plan.
Reporting from Farmington and Mescalero meetings follows families’ calls for Native language instruction, culturally responsive teaching and stronger support for students.
Describes the regional meetings scheduled to inform PED’s court-ordered remedial plan and the role of its outside partners in gathering public input.
Explains the Legislative Education Study Committee staff’s advisory role in the remedial plan, including research, fiscal analysis and coordination with PED.
Ahead of the April hearing, KUNM speaks with plaintiff Wilhelmina Yazzie and advocate Loretta Trujillo about resources, teaching and community participation in education reform.
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.