This week on New Mexico in Focus, Attorney General Raúl Torrez explains two recent decisions involving education in our state. In partnership with New Mexico In Depth, Executive Director Trip Jennings asks Torrez about his intention to take over litigation in the Yazzie-Martinez case. 

Then, Jennings discusses a recent announcement from the attorney general that his office will investigate reported disproportionately harsh discipline at Gallup-McKinley County Schools. New Mexico In Depth’s Bryant Furlow broke the story last year, prompting Torrez to take a closer look.  

Executive Producer Jeff Proctor moderates a special panel that reacts to both of those topics and digs deeper into some of the lingering questions around each. Proctor asks if the attorney general has the broad authority, he’s asserting to take over the Yazzie-Martinez case and if there could be a political incentive for him to get involved. Then, Proctor and the panel explore New Mexico In Depth’s reporting on the disciplinary issues at Gallup-McKinley and how Torrez’s investigation could play out.  

NMiF airs on NMPBS 5.1 (KNME HD) Friday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 1 at 7 a.m., and streaming on the PBS video app.  

NMiF Segments

Attorney General Raul Torrez Explains Desire to Take Over Yazzie-Martinez Case 
Correspondent

Trip Jennings 

Guest
Raúl Torrez, (D) Attorney General, New Mexico  

Analyzing AG’s Decision to Take Over Yazzie-Martinez Case 
Correspondent

Jeff Proctor 

Guests
Trip Jennings, executive director, New Mexico In Depth 
Regis Pecos, co-founder, Santa Fe Indian School Leadership Institute 
Danielle Gonzales, senior fellow, One Generation Fund, APS board member 

Attorney General Raul Torrez to Investigate Gallup-McKinley County Schools 
Correspondent

Trip Jennings 

Guest
Raúl Torrez, (D) Attorney General, New Mexico 

AG Investigation into Gallup-McKinley Schools 
Correspondent

Jeff Proctor 

Guests 
Trip Jennings, executive director, New Mexico In Depth 
Regis Pecos, co-founder, Santa Fe Indian School Leadership Institute 
Danielle Gonzales, senior fellow, One Generation Fund, APS board member 

Host
Lou DiVizio 

New Mexico in Focus is the New Mexico PBS prime-time news magazine show covering the events, issues, and people that are shaping life in New Mexico and the Southwest. NMiF takes a multi-layered look at social, political, economic health, education, and art issues, and explores them in-depth with a critical eye to give them context beyond the "news of the moment.

NMPBS Executive Producer, Public Affairs, is Jeff Proctor. New Mexico in Focus Senior Producer for Public Affairs is Lou DiVizio. “Our Land” Senior Producer is Laura Paskus. The producer of New Mexico in Focus is Antonio Sanchez and Co-producer is Kathy Wimmer.

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