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SPONSOR: |
Garcia, M.P. |
DATE TYPED: |
2/19/03 |
HB |
380/aHEC |
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SHORT TITLE: |
Salary Differential for Certain Teachers |
SB |
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ANALYST: |
L. Baca |
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APPROPRIATION
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Appropriation
Contained |
Estimated
Additional Impact |
Recurring or
Non-Rec |
Fund Affected |
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FY03 |
FY04 |
FY03 |
FY04 |
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$428.0 |
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Recurring |
GF |
(Parenthesis
( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
Relates to:
HB 183 & SB 216, EDUCATONAL PROGRAM COST
CALCULATIONS (identical bills)
Relates
to Appropriation for the State Department of Education in the General
Appropriation Act
Responses
Received From
State
Department of Education (SDE)
Commission
on Higher Education (CHE)
SUMMARY
Synopsis
of HEC Amendment
The amendment adopted by the House Education
Committee strikes the reversion clause and makes sections 1 and 2 consistent.
Synopsis
of Original Bill
House Bill 380
requires that a salary differential of $4,000 be awarded to any teacher who is
certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) and
teaches in a New Mexico public school that has at least 90% of the students
attending the school receive a free
lunch; and
appropriates $428.0 to the SDE from the general fund for expenditure in fiscal
year 2004 and subsequent years to carry out the provisions of this act.
Significant
Issues
Schools with a high concentration of low-income
students score consistently low on standardized tests and usually have a higher
percentage of teachers who do not fully meet certification standards adopted by
the State Board of Education (SBE).
Research studies, along with conventional wisdom, strongly suggest these
are the schools and students who need and deserve the most qualified teachers
available.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The appropriation of
$428.0 contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the general fund. Any
unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2004
shall revert to the general fund.
RELATIONSHIP
HB 380 relates to:
HB 177, which enacts the
School Differential Pay Act to address the shortage of qualified teachers in elementary schools that have a
high percentage of low-income students by providing differential pay incentives
of #3,000 a year for no more than four years to teachers with master’s degrees
who agree to teach in those schools and appropriates $2,000.0 from the general
fund for the purposes of the Act, and to
HB 183 & SB 216, identical bills which amend the Public School Finance Act by adding National Board for Professional Teaching standards (NBPTS) certification to the itemized program units in the program cost calculation by providing a method to calculate a one time salary differential for NBPTS-certified teachers; and appropriates $470.0 from the general fund to SDE for this purpose.
SB 232,
which appropriates $300.0 to the SDE to recruit and assist qualified teachers
to become NBPTS certified.
TECHNICAL ISSUES\AMENDMENTS
The bills authorizes expenditures in fiscal year
2004 and subsequent years and also carries a
fiscal year 2004 reversion clause. It is recommended the bill be amended so the
two sections are consistent.
POSSIBLE QUESTIONS
assignment
to these schools?