New Mexico has a plan to fix its failure to educate disadvantaged kids. Not everyone thinks it's enough.

After seven years of draft plans to respond to a landmark education lawsuit failing to come to fruition, the New Mexico Public Education Department finally has a comprehensive blueprint to build an adequate system for the state’s most disadvantaged students.

Earlier this month, the agency filed in court an updated, finalized draft of the one it produced in October, more than doubling the document’s length and fleshing out several areas, from proposing more compensation for educators to more transparency and accountability measures.

“Is this plan all-encompassing? I think it’s difficult for any plan to be,” said Mariana Padilla, Public Education Department Cabinet secretary, told lawmakers during a Legislative Finance Committee meeting on Friday. “But I can tell you it is full of very mea