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A pattern of failures
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A Searchlight investigation reveals serious abuses within New Mexico's treatment foster care system.
Charter schools target New Mexico’s at-risk students
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Some offer career-specific curricula in partnership with local employers, with traditional academics taking a low priority and standardized testing de-emphasized. Others focus on college prep. With so much variety, the question is, how well do they work?
Underfunded, undercounted: New Mexico at risk in 2020 census
The state’s residents are notoriously hard to count — in 2000, the census undercount amounted to nearly 2 percent or about 35,000 people missed. Here’s why that matters.
New Mexico ranks last in survey of child well-being
Child advocates said the state's worst-in-the-nation showing should be a wakeup call for policymakers, but also stressed something unexpected. With nowhere to go but up, opportunity abounds for New Mexico.
Government
Native communities harnessing the power of data
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Like indigenous peoples around the world, they are today reclaiming their place as data researchers.
Government
Where trust counts: The census and NM’s border cities
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In the last 10 years, so much has changed in Sunland Park and elsewhere along the border that observers are girding themselves for what may prove to be a damaging undercount in the 2020 census.
Searchlight investigations
For contracts, New Mexico increasingly looks elsewhere
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A Searchlight investigation finds billions of taxpayer dollars have flowed out of state since 2013 due to government purchases that are not filled — or cannot be filled — by New Mexico companies.
Immigration
In handwritten letters, detained immigrant fathers describe family separation
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The men describe their anguish at being taken from their children and not knowing their children’s whereabouts for weeks or months. “I felt like I was dying,” wrote one father, who did not give his name or country of origin.
Immigration
New Mexico lawyer faces death threat over work for immigrants
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What happened to Allegra Love and her colleagues, experts say, is a terrifying example of the open threats and unrelenting hostility that immigrant advocates have begun to face nationwide.
Education
Brain Drain: Graduates leaving New Mexico behind
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No state can afford to lose high-quality, educated workers, the key ingredient for a thriving economy.
New Mexico's Children
Mississippi’s gains may hold lessons for New Mexico
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How does a state climb off the bottom rung in measures of child well-being? Can New Mexico take a cue and move up a few notches itself, by next year?
Immigration
For New Mexico’s undocumented, a cloud of fear
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Families throughout New Mexico have been wrestling with a quiet threat: a steep increase in deportations of immigrants with no criminal record.