Posts Tagged ‘Yazzie/Martinez’
State Education Dept Gets Feedback on Native Student Needs
8.15.25 – Host Nash Jones heads to the Mescalero Apache Reservation for a community feedback meeting organized by the state Public Education Department. This is one of about a dozen in-person and virtual meetings across the state this month to get input for PED’s new plan to meet compliance with court orders under the Yazzie/Martinez…
Read MoreCivil Rights Pioneer George I. Sánchez
May 22, 2020 – In an interview recorded earlier this year, correspondent Russell Contreras sat down with Cynthia Kennedy for a deeply personal tribute to her grandfather: author, educator and civil rights leader George I. Sanchez. His book “Forgotten People: A Study of New Mexicans,” first published in 1940, looked at the status of education…
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