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New Mexico’s Children

Posted inFeatured

Fire sale

Avatar photo by Alicia Inez Guzmán July 14, 2022November 3, 2022

‘Is your land for sale?’ Alarming offers to buy property in the burn zone leave some New Mexicans affronted

Posted inFeatured

Off the radar

Avatar photo by Alicia Inez Guzmán June 22, 2022January 12, 2023

2,300 homeless youths in Albuquerque — and most of them out of sight

Posted inFeatured

‘Hurt people raising hurt people’

Avatar photo by Annabella Farmer May 25, 2022January 13, 2023

A mental health crisis grows in NM amid a dire lack of services

Posted inFeatured, New Mexico's Children

Courting controversy: new child welfare bureaucracy draws concerns

Avatar photo by Sara Solovitch March 1, 2022August 17, 2022

A state agency will hire, oversee attorneys in neglect and abuse cases. Some say that’s a bad idea.

Posted inFeatured, New Mexico's Children, Politics

The battle over critical race theory reaches New Mexico

Avatar photo by Alicia Inez Guzmán January 20, 2022September 9, 2022

Conservatives are fighting educational reforms with a single war cry: “It’s CRT!”

Posted inFeatured, New Mexico's Children, Tribal Affairs

Where have all the children gone?

Avatar photo by Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi December 9, 2021January 12, 2023

Students in the Four Corners have disappeared from attendance rolls. What happened?

Posted inChild & Family Welfare

CYFD deputy secretary steps down

Avatar photo by Ed Williams November 23, 2021February 16, 2023

Terry Locke, deputy secretary of CYFD, has announced his retirement, the latest in a string of departures from the agency responsible for the well-being of the state’s most vulnerable children.

Posted inChild & Family Welfare

New accusations in Farmington foster care abuse case

Avatar photo by Ed Williams October 14, 2021February 16, 2023

Suit says CYFD knew of abuse at Farmington foster home, failed to protect kids

Posted inEducation, Featured, New Mexico's Children, New Mexico's Children, Your Right To Know

You’ve reached 17,494 students. Please leave a message.

Avatar photo by Alicia Inez Guzmán August 18, 2021July 10, 2022

New Mexico paid millions to a Utah company to text, email and phone “disengaged” students. Was it the right call?

Posted inChild & Family Welfare

Blalock steps down

Avatar photo by Ed Williams August 10, 2021February 16, 2023

CYFD Cabinet secretary Brian Blalock replaced by former New Mexico Supreme Court Justice amid growing transparency concerns

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