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View Comments SANTA FE - Appointments to New Mexico s citizen redistricting committee were supposed to give due regard to geographic and cultural diversity under legislation passed this year. But six of the seven appointees to the panel live in Albuquerque, and the other is from Belen. All but one are men. New Mexico s redistricting group will also feature a heavy concentration of people with a background in politics, including two former Democratic state senators and a former chairman of the state Republican Party. The committee took shape over the last few days through a series of appointments by the State Ethics Commission and legislative leaders. ....
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Created: May 03, 2021 12:42 PM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Rural school districts are celebrating a win after a judge ordered the state to make sure at-risk students have access to the internet. Remote learning has been a challenge for many students amid the pandemic. We have over 1,500 students that still cannot sufficiently access the internet, even after providing hot spots for them, said Mike Hyatt, the superintendent of Gallup-McKinley County Schools. That challenge is not unique. According to the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty, nearly a quarter of New Mexicans don t have broadband internet. It s even higher in tribal communities 80%! In a 2018 ruling for the Yazzie/Martinez lawsuit, the court ordered the state to provide sufficient education to all public school students. On Friday, the court also ordered the state to provide computers or tablets to at-risk students, even providing them with high-speed internet service. ....
Judge: New Mexico Must Provide Devices, Internet to Students The decision comes more than four months after plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed a motion claiming the state has failed to provide children with the necessary tools to study remotely during the coronavirus pandemic. May 03, 2021 • David Kidd/Governing (TNS) A judge on Friday ordered New Mexico to provide computers and high-speed internet to at-risk students for remote learning. The decision comes more than four months after plaintiffs in the landmark Yazzie/ Martinez lawsuit filed a motion claiming the state has failed to provide those children with the necessary tools to study remotely during the coronavirus pandemic. ....