Policies in education ensure that educators and educational leaders are receiving and implementing equitable and adequate educational services and opportunities to all students. Some of these policies are proactive and others are reactive. In 2018, Judge Singleton decided in the "Yazzie-Martinez v. NM" (2018) court case the State of NM and the NMPED implemented policies that maintain and increase the achievement and opportunity gap for "at risk" students. In a reactive action, NMPED created the Action Plan to address the four major claims in the "Yazzie-Martinez v. NM" (2018) ruling, NMPED violated the State Constitution, failed to assist "at risk" students, failed to provide sufficient funding, and failed to conduct oversight. In the Action Plan, the Linguistic and Cultural Division was created to implement the Culturally and Responsive Guidance Handbook in schools and districts across NM. The three documents were created to apply social justice and equity; however, some of the policies implemented a facade of social justice or pseudo-social justice and maintained the systemic discrimination and oppression of marginalized groups in NM's school system. This research applies the theories of Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Policy Analysis, Critical Race Theory, Critical Theory, and Educational Change to analyze the data set to identify the systemic discrimination and oppression that impact "at risk" students and their educational opportunities. The "Yazzie-Martinez v. NM" (2018) court ruling, NMPED's Action Plan, and the Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Guidance Handbook illustrates how power structures can address or exasperate the systemic discrimination and oppression that are overtly and covertly incorporated into the policies. With the use of the theories, I was able to identify how social justice addresses many of the concerns but also shows how the policies implement pseudo-social justice. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]