School Discipline Targets Navajo Students

A Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission report finds that Gallup‑McKinley Public Schools subjects Indigenous students to disproportionately harsh discipline, echoing a 2022 ProPublica analysis and prompting calls for the New Mexico attorney general to release its investigation. The pattern combines record‑based disparities with community testimony and a climate of fear that may feed the school‑to‑punishment pipeline and violate civil‑rights protections. — Documented, district‑level racial disparities in school discipline demand policy responses on transparency, oversight, and civil‑rights enforcement at state and federal levels.