0001|                           HOUSE BILL 1188
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                             GAIL C. BEAM
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AN EDUCATIONAL RESTRUCTURING
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0012|     PROGRAM INVOLVING PARENTS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS.
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0013|     
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0014|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0015|          Section 1.  ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.--
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0016|               A.  The state department of public education shall
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0017|     establish and administer a program focusing on school
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0018|     restructuring to improve student achievement and to help
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0019|     schools identify and train parents and community leaders who
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0020|     will hold the school accountable for achieving high academic
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0021|     standards.  
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0022|               B.  A school may apply for funding of up to ten
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0023|     thousand dollars ($10,000) from the program if the school
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0024|     demonstrates a commitment to restructuring educational
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0025|     practices and conditions at the school by entering into a
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0001|     partnership with:
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0002|                    (1)  school staff;
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0003|                    (2)  parents of school students;
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0004|                    (3)  community and business leaders; and
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0005|                    (4)  a nonprofit, community-based organization
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0006|     having a demonstrated ability to train, develop and organize
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0007|     parents and community leaders into a large, nonpartisan
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0008|     constituency that will hold the school administration
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0009|     accountable for achieving educational objectives.
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0010|               C.  No more than one-half of the appropriation made
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0011|     in Section 2 of this act may be used to implement strategies
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0012|     developed by participants who have designed student learning
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0013|     experiences outside of the regular school day.  
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0014|          Section 2.  APPROPRIATION.--One hundred thousand dollars
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0015|     ($100,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the state
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0016|     department of public education for expenditure in fiscal year
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0017|     1998 for the purpose of creating a program whose focus is the
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0018|     improvement of student academic achievement through
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0019|     participation of school staff, parents of students, community
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0020|     and business leaders and nonprofit organizations having a
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0021|     demonstrated capacity to organize, develop and train
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0022|     participants.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining
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0023|     at the end fiscal year 1998 shall revert to the general fund.
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0001|                            State of New Mexico
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0002|                      House of Representatives
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0003|   
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0004|                      FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0005|                        FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0008|                                                  March 12, 1997
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0011|   Mr. Speaker:
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0013|        Your EDUCATION COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0014|   
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0015|                       HOUSE BILL 1188
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0016|   
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0017|   has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0018|   recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:
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0020|        1.   On page 2, line 21, after the period insert "This
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0021|   appropriation is a nonrecurring appropriation.".,
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0022|   
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0023|   and thence referred to the APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE
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0024|   COMMITTEE.
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0025|   
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0001|                                 Respectfully submitted,
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<u></u>0007| <u>                                </u>                             Samuel F. Vigil, Chairman
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0012|             (Chief Clerk)                       (Chief Clerk)
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0016|   The roll call vote was<u> 10 </u> For<u> 0 </u> Against
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0017|   Yes:      10
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0018|             Excused:  McSherry, Nicely, Wright
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0019|             Absent:   None
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0023|   G:\BILLTEXT\BILLW_97\H1188
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