Native leader blasts NM’s response to education lawsuit

In this 2018 photo, former Governor of Cochiti Pueblo Regis Pecos participates in a ceremony to sign the Santa Fe Entrada Proclamation in the courtyard of the Santa Fe Community Convention Center. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
SANTA FE — Former Cochiti Pueblo Gov. Regis Pecos slammed New Mexico’s efforts to improve education for Native American students in response to a landmark court decision, describing a “fragmented” funding process for tribal education that will h