Unequal Discipline

Native Students Face Harsh Discipline in New Mexico

Native American students in New Mexico are expelled far more often than members of any other group. One school district, Gallup-McKinley County Schools, is responsible for most of that disparity.

Impact of Our Reporting

A New Mexico District Says It’s Reduced Harsh Discipline of Native Students. But the Data Provided Is Incomplete.

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth

February 12, 2025, 7:00 am EST

New Mexico AG to Investigate Gallup-McKinley School District for Harsh Discipline of Native American Students

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth

September 11, 2023, 6:00 am EDT

7 stories published since 2022

Have a Student in New Mexico Schools? Here Is What to Know About How School Discipline Works.

by Asia Fields

March 21, 2023, 6:00 am EDT
Gallup School Superintendent Says Changing a Label Explains Away Its Harsh Native Student Discipline. It Doesn’t.

by Marjorie Childress, New Mexico In Depth, and Steve Myers, ProPublica

February 9, 2023, 5:00 am EST
A School Superintendent Says Our Story About Expulsions in His District Is Incorrect. Here’s Why He’s Wrong.

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth

January 17, 2023, 5:00 am EST
This School District Is Ground Zero for Harsh Discipline of Native Students in New Mexico

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth, with additional reporting by Asia Fields, Maya Miller and Joel Jacobs, ProPublica

December 21, 2022, 5:00 am EST
How We Found the School District Responsible for Much of New Mexico’s Outsized Discipline of Native Students

by Joel Jacobs, ProPublica, and Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth

December 21, 2022, 4:59 am EST