New Mexico

September 21, 2023

NM ATTORNEY GENERAL SEEKS CONTROL OVER STATE RESPONSE TO YAZZIE-MARTINEZ

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez wants to take over the state’s “slow progress” in reforming public education to ensure all children are sufficiently educated as required by a landmark 2018 court ruling. The judge in that lawsuit found the state had violated the educational rights of Native American, English language-learners, disabled and low-income children.
July 9, 2020

NEW MEXICO JUDGE DENIES STATE’S MOTION TO TERMINATE MAJOR ADEQUACY CASE

First Judicial District Court Judge Matthew Wilson last week denied the State of New Mexico’s motion to dismiss the Yazzie/Martinez case.  In that major 2018 adequacy […]
March 25, 2020

STATE MOVES TO DISMISS HISTORIC NEW MEXICO LAWSUIT

Claiming that the public education system in New Mexico is now substantially different than the one in place just a few school years ago, attorneys for […]
December 3, 2019

NEW MEXICO PLAINTIFFS MOVE FOR FURTHER RELIEF

The order issued by New Mexico District Judge Sarah Singleton last year in Martinez v. State of New Mexico required the state to enact by April, […]