'We're big losers': Why are some of New Mexico's best schools losing their funding?

During the past legislative session, New Mexico lawmakers unanimously passed public school funding formula changes, reallocating funding to the state's neediest schools. However, some of the state's best-performing charter schools say the policy hurts them.

“We have heard every year from charters wanting their own at-risk index. We heard that from them repeatedly,” Senate President Pro Tem Mimi Stewart, D-Albuquerque, who sponsored the legislation, said in an interview.

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