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New Mexico AG Calls for Reform After Report Finds “Substantial Racial Disparities” in One School District

The New Mexico attorney general’s office released a report on Gallup-McKinley County Schools. The report says Indigenous and Hispanic students are suspended more often and for longer than white students for similar behavior. Indigenous students lose eight to ten times more school days to suspensions than white students. Hispanic students lose three to four times as many days. The AG is calling for reforms to fix these racial disparities.