By Jaime Casap
October 5, 2026
On July 15, Lynn Vasquez of the New Mexico Public Education Department met with lawmakers alongside Mark Angel, CEO of Amira Learning, to defend the use of the company’s AI-powered literacy screener in public schools across the state. New Mexico has been under a court order since 2018 to improve outcomes for its most underserved students, and officials turned to Amira in 2025 to help improve reading proficiency.