New Mexico tosses restriction that prevented parents in law school from receiving child care subsidy
Elisabeth Gutierrez with her son, Xavier.
After hearing about child care concerns from a campus parent group, the University of New Mexico School of Law School convinced the state in September to change a child care subsidy rule, which until then prohibited eligibility for graduate and postgraduate students.
Elisabeth Gutierrez, a mother and first-year student at the Albuquerque, New Mexico, law school, says she missed some classes early in the term because she didn’t have child care for her children, ages 3 and 1. Her husband is wrapping up his degree in certified public accounting while also waiting tables until the work dried up because of the COVID-19 pandemic.