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The state’s assistant secretary for Native American education is claiming she was unfairly forced out of the New Mexico Public Education Department earlier this month.
In a two-page letter sent this week to the state’s tribal elders, Latifah Phillips said she “was approached with a termination letter with no explanation or any known documented reasoning, and then presented with the opportunity to resign.”
Phillips, a former official in the Santa Fe school district, chose to be fired. She described her decision as “a small act of protest to the unfairness of this action.”
A spokeswoman for the Public Education Department did not respond to requests for comment on Phillips’ firing. Attempts to speak to Phillips about her letter also were unsuccessful.
The department’s website still lists Phillips as the assistant secretary for Native American education. It also lists her as a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation.
State ousts assistant secretary for Native American education
If they cannot produce a good reason, I can see this blowing up in their faces.
In a two-page letter sent this week to the state’s tribal elders, Latifah Phillips said she “was approached with a termination letter with no explanation or any known documented reasoning, and then presented with the opportunity to resign.”
Phillips, a former official in the Santa Fe school district, chose to be fired. She described her decision as “a small act of protest to the unfairness of this action.”
A spokeswoman for the Public Education Department did not respond to requests for comment on Phillips’ firing. Attempts to speak to Phillips about her letter also were unsuccessful.
The department’s website still lists Phillips as the assistant secretary for Native American education. It also lists her as a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation.
State ousts assistant secretary for Native American education
If they cannot produce a good reason, I can see this blowing up in their faces.