Lawmakers on the Legislative Finance Committee sought assurance Wednesday from Public Education Secretary Karen Trujillo that they would get a return on a major investment in schools in the next fiscal year.
Faced with a state judge’s order to fix a public school system deemed deficient, the New Mexico Legislature appropriated an extra $480 million for education — an increase of over 17 percent.
During a committee hearing, Trujillo offered a mixed bag of the state’s efforts to comply with District Court Judge Sarah Singleton’s ruling last summer in the landmark lawsuit Yazzie-Martinez v. state of New Mexico.
