In Jemez Mountain Schools, Navajo parents say they are kept in the dark about funding for indigenous students.
Ed Williams, Searchlight New Mexico
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Medically fragile and sleeping in office buildings
Following an executive order ending office stays for foster youth, where will kids with serious health conditions go?
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What if kids don’t want to leave the office?
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s executive order on Jan. 19 mandated an end to the long-standing practice of housing foster youth in the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department’s office buildings. But it also raised questions about the state’s bill of rights for children. The order presents significant challenges for foster care caseworkers, who have […]
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Rural hospitals brace for ‘last hope’ as lawmakers take up malpractice
“I’ve had a few people that were interested, and then once they check into New Mexico, all of a sudden they back out and they’re not interested anymore,” said Kaye Green, CEO of Roosevelt General.
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‘An open graveyard’: Skeletal remains lie unrecovered in New Mexico’s borderlands
SANTA TERESA — The rosary hung from a branch of mesquite, its light blue beads swaying in the breeze. The site was a few miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. It wasn’t far from paved roads, a truck stop, the city of El Paso. But amid the sand and shrubs — all of them too short, […]
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Two paths after foster care
Two teens aged out of New Mexico’s child welfare system last year. What made their lives so different?