0001|                          HOUSE MEMORIAL 24
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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|                           MIGUEL P. GARCIA
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0009|     
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0010|                              A MEMORIAL
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0011|     REQUESTING THE VAUGHN SCHOOL BOARD TO REINSTATE THE TEACHERS
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0012|     WHO WERE SUSPENDED FOR TEACHING CHICANO HISTORY AND RACIAL AND
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0013|     RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE.
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0014|     
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0015|          WHEREAS, two teachers, Patsy Cordova and Nadine Cordova,
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0016|     were suspended from the Vaughn municipal school district for
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0017|     teaching language arts students about Cesar Chavez and the
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0018|     history of Chicano-Hispano people of New Mexico and the
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0019|     southwest; and
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0020|          WHEREAS, these two teachers were also reprimanded for
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0021|     teaching units on racial and religious tolerance; and
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0022|          WHEREAS, the superintendent of Vaughn municipal schools
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0023|     intends to recommend to the Vaughn school board that they be
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0024|     fired for insubordination; and
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0025|          WHEREAS, Patsy and Nadine Cordova are lifelong residents
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0001|     of Vaughn, New Mexico and long-time teachers from that
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0002|     community; and
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0003|          WHEREAS, Chicano studies teach about the history, the
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0004|     culture and the five hundred-year struggle of a people's quest
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0005|     for equality and justice;
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0006|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF
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0007|     REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the Vaughn
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0008|     municipal school district be requested to reinstate, with back
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0009|     pay, the suspended teachers and that Chicano studies curricula
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0010|     be made available in all schools of the state and that teachers
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0011|     be encouraged to teach these curricula so that all students may
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0012|     be able to gain knowledge of this ethnic group; and
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0013|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0014|     transmitted to the Vaughn school board and the state board of
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0015|     education.
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0016|                                                         State of New Mexico
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0017|                      House of Representatives
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0018|   
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0019|                      FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0020|                        FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0021|   
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0022|   
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0023|                                                  March 21, 1997
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0001|   Mr. Speaker:
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0002|   
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0003|        Your JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0004|   
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0005|                      HOUSE MEMORIAL 24
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0006|                               
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0007|   has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0008|   recommendation that it DO PASS.
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0010|                                 Respectfully submitted,
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<u></u>0016| <u>                                </u>                             Thomas P. Foy, Chairman
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0019|   Adopted <u>                    </u>     Not Adopted <u>                    
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<u></u>0020| <u>   </u>
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0021|             (Chief Clerk)                       (Chief Clerk)
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0023|                        Date <u>            </u>
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0025|   The roll call vote was<u> 7 </u> For<u> 2 </u> Against
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0001|   Yes:      7
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0002|             No:       Larranaga, Mallory

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0003|             Excused:  Alwin, Luna, Rios, Sanchez
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0004|             Absent:   None
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