Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham creates new office for special education
Posted on AllSides May 25th, 2023
From The Center
For Kristina Martinez, getting the special education services her son needs has been a long road. Martinez’s son, Boyd, is a freshman at Rio Rancho High School who has severe autism. The family’s come a long way since he was first diagnosed, but Martinez says that to this day, she still struggles to get her son everything he needs – even down to getting him included on the school choir. “It’s been a fight since the beginning,” she said. But an executive order signed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on...