[LWVNM Action] Judge rejects governor's motion to dismiss Yazzie/Martinez

[Judy Williams]

Very good news.  The second piece of good legal news today!  I can hardly
stand it.  Judy

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 4:20 PM Meredith Machen <mermachen at cybermesa.com>
wrote:

> Judge rejects governor's motion to dismiss Yazzie/Martinez
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> ·        By Dillon Mullan dmullan at sfnewmexican.com
> <https://www.santafenewmexican.com/users/profile/dmullan>
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>  Jun 29, 2020 Updated 26 min ago
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> A state district judge on Monday rejected a request by the governor to
> dismiss Yazzie/Martinez vs. The State of New Mexico, a landmark education
> funding lawsuit.
>
> Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's Office had filed a motion asking First
> Judicial District Judge Matthew Wilson to end the court's oversight of
> education reform required under a ruling in the case that found the state
> was denying an adequate education to some of its most vulnerable students.
> The plaintiffs opposed the dismissal.
>
> The motion argued the New Mexico public education system under Lujan
> Grisham's administration is substantially different from the one in place
> in the summer of 2018, when the late Judge Sarah Singleton ruled it had
> been failing to provide a sufficient education to Native American,
> special-education and low-income students, as well as English-language
> learners.
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> The Public Education Department, not the courts, should oversee reforms,
> the Governor's Office said.
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> Wilson disagreed.
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> "Until there are long-term comprehensive reforms implemented by the state,
> the court will maintain jurisdiction over this case," Wilson said via video
> conference.
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> *"The court agrees with the plaintiff's counsel that to dismiss this
> action now while implementation and compliance are merely in their
> initial stages would undermine years of work and leave the children of New
> Mexico in an educational system that may be below constitutional
> standards."*
>
> Wilson took over the case after Singleton died in July 2019.
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> *This is a developing story.*
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> Meredith Machen
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> League of Women Voters of New Mexico
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> meredith.machen at gmail.com
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