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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
SPONSOR Nava
ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
2/3/2007
HB
SHORT TITLE Enlace Program at Certain Schools
SB 77
ANALYST McOlash
APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)
Appropriation
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
FY07
FY08
$1,200.0
Recurring
General Fund
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
Responses Received From
Public Education Department (PED)
Higher Education Department (HED)
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
Senate Bill 77 appropriates $1,200,000 from the General Fund to support ENLACE programs in
FY 2007 and FY 2008 at these selected institutions:
1.
University of New Mexico $400,000
2.
New Mexico State University $400,000
3.
Santa Fe Community College $400,000
The bill restricts administrative costs to five percent of any appropriation.
The bill has an emergency clause.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The appropriation of $1,200,000 contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the General
Fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY 2008 shall revert to
the General Fund.
The appropriations contained in this bill are intended to help sustain the three New Mexico
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ENLACE partnerships established through W.K. Kellogg Foundation grants as briefly described
below.
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
ENLACE is a multi-year initiative to strengthen the educational pipeline and increase opportuni-
ties for Latinos to enter and complete college. ENLACE consists of 13 partnerships in 7 states
that are working to increase the number of Latino graduates from high school and college. In
Spanish, "enlace" means link or weave together in such a way that the new entity is stronger than
its parts. ENLACE partnerships include universities, community colleges, K-12 schools, com-
munity-based organizations, students, and parents.
ENLACE has evolved in three phases. In Phase 1, 18 higher education institutions in a number
of states received one-year planning grants of $100,000 each to respond to the needs of students
and families by developing action plans based on best practices as well as local contexts. For
Phase II, 13 partnerships in seven states received grants ranging from $1.4 to $2.0 million to im-
plement their plans over four years. Implementation funds ended with the 2004-05 school year.
A final phase will seek to sustain promising practices and ENLACE principles for the benefit of
more Latino communities and underserved student populations.
This request was not on the list of priority projects submitted by the University of New Mexico,
New Mexico State University, or the Santa Fe Community College to the HED for review and
was not included in the Department’s funding recommendation for FY08.
POSSIBLE QUESTIONS
1.
Will the Phase III of ENLACE be funded entirely by the state.
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