SENATE BILL 503

49th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2009

INTRODUCED BY

Gerald P. Ortiz y Pino

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SCHOOL-BASED, AFTER-SCHOOL AND SUMMER PROGRAMS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN EIGHT SOUTH VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the public education department for expenditure in fiscal year 2010 to contract with a partnership of one national organization and one local nonprofit organization to provide school-based, after-school and summer programs for English language learners in eight south valley elementary schools in the Albuquerque public school district. The programs shall include a structured literacy component and will be evaluated by pre- and post-assessments using short cycle assessments approved by the Albuquerque public schools and shall include a professional development component. The contract is contingent on two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) in matching funds from sources other than the state. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2010 shall revert to the general fund.

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