BY MAIRE O'NEILLmaire@losalamosreporter.com A joint status report and provisional discovery plan document has been filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque by Luckie Daniels, a Los Alamos Public Schools parent, and Carlos M. Quiñones, the attorney representing LAPS Supt. Jennifer Guy, former Supt. Jose Delfin, Asst. Supt. James “Carter” Payne, LAPS administrators and LAPS Board…
BY MAIRE O'NEILLmaire@losalamosreporter.com While trying to find out why complaints about discrimination involving Los Alamos Public Schools that she sent to the Public Education Department’s Anti-Racism Anti-Oppression (ARAO) Portal at the Identity, Equity, and Transformation Division, LAPS parent Luckie Daniels received some public documents from PED that indicated that something else was going on between PED…
BY MAIRE O'NEILLmaire@losalamosreporter.com What is happening with the Los Alamos Public Schools? How has the situation gone from an African-American parent requesting records and information about the LAPS Equity Council in October 2022 from the office of the Superintendent, at that time Jose Delfin, to that parent, Luckie Daniels filing a lawsuit against LAPS in…
In her lawsuit, Luckie Daniels claims Los Alamos Public Schools created a hostile environment amounting to discrimination when officials failed to address her repeated equity complaints.
BY MAIRE O'NEILLmaire@losalamosreporter.com When Luckie Daniels and her 15-year-old daughter Jaiya relocated to Los Alamos County for the 2022-2023 school year little did she think that within 13 months she would be embroiled in claims against Los Alamos Public Schools that she has submitted on three levels, local, state and federal.Daniels, who is African-American, will…