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Yazzie/Martinez plaintiffs ask to rewrite New Mexico education reform plan themselves

The Independent·Bella Davis·about 1 month ago
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Fed up with the state’s repeated failures to fix an education system that a court found in 2018 was failing most of New Mexico’s students, plaintiffs in the landmark Yazzie/Martinez case are asking a judge to allow them to rewrite the Public Education Department’s reform plan. In a joint motion last week, plaintiffs outlined their vision for a potentially eight-month process for the revision. The request comes after they and several tribes earlier this year asked the court to reject PED’s plan, itself court-ordered. “As it stands, we do not have an actual plan to transform education in New Mexico ,” Alisa Diehl, an attorney who is part of the Yazzie legal team, said in an interview.…

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