0001| SENATE BILL 940
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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| CISCO MCSORLEY
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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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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 restricting educational practices
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0025| and conditions at the school by entering into a partnership
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0001| 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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0003| FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE SB 940/a
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0004| FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0007| March 6, 1997
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0009| Mr. President:
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0011| Your EDUCATION COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0013| SENATE BILL 940
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0015| has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0016| recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:
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0018| 1. On page 1, line 23, strike the word "restricting" and
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0019| insert in lieu thereof the word "restructuring".,
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0021| and thence referred to the FINANCE COMMITTEE.
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0023| Respectfully submitted,
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0004| Cynthia Nava, Chairman
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0008| Adopted_______________________ Not
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0010| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)
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0013| Date ________________________
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0016| The roll call vote was 7 For 1 Against
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0017| Yes: 7
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0018| No: Rawson
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0019| Excused: Duran, Garcia
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0020| Absent: None
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