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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

3/09/2007

HB

SHORT TITLE Schools on the Rise Day

SB SM 3

ANALYST Schuss

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

NFI

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

Senate Memorial 3 recognizes January 19, 2007 as “Schools on the Rise Day" in the New

Mexico Senate and recognizes eleven schools on the rise and eighteen quality school districts in

which all of the schools in the district have met adequate yearly progress.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

Senate Memorial 3 states that New Mexico's standards, assessments and school accountability

are now among the best in the country and the quality counts 2006 report indicates that teacher

quality has improved for the fourth straight year, demonstrating that educators in New Mexico

are raising the bar for all students. Closing the achievement gap in New Mexico's schools should

be a matter of concern for all residents of the state and three hundred seventy-two of the state's

public schools are meeting or exceeding adequate yearly progress, and eighteen districts have

been recognized as "Quality Districts" in which all schools made adequate yearly progress for

the school year 2005-2006.

Through quality leadership and high expectations for students, eighteen districts achieved the

high standard of all schools in the district meeting or exceeding adequate yearly progress,

including: Animas public schools; Capitan municipal schools, Cimarron municipal schools,

Clayton public schools; Cloudcroft municipal schools; Elida municipal schools; Fort Sumner

municipal schools; Hondo Valley public schools; Logan municipal schools; Los Alamos public

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schools; Melrose public schools; Mosquero municipal schools; Roy municipal schools; San Jon

municipal schools; and Texico municipal schools.

Through the hard work and dedication of faculty and administrators, eleven public schools have

achieved the standard of adequate yearly progress for two consecutive years and are no longer

designated as schools in need of improvement, including: Eugene Field elementary school from

Albuquerque public schools; Central primary school and Bloomfield childhood learning center

from Bloomfield municipal schools; Dixon elementary school from Espanola public schools;

Anthony elementary school from Gadsden independent schools; Milan elementary school and

Laguna-Acoma middle school from Grants-Cibola county schools; Tome elementary school

from Los Lunas public schools; Nob Hill elementary school and Sierra Vista primary school

from Ruidoso municipal schools; Dowa Yalanne elementary school from Zuni public schools.

The Senate of the State of New Mexico requests that January 19, 2007 be designated as "Schools

on the Rise Day" to honor and showcase the eleven schools identified as meeting or exceeding

adequate yearly progress for the last two school years; and that "Schools on the Rise Day" also

recognize the eighteen school districts that are "Quality Districts", in which one hundred percent

of all of the school district's schools met or exceeded annual yearly progress in the school year

2005-2006.

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