SENATE BILL 480

57th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2025

INTRODUCED BY

Cindy Nava and Linda M. Trujillo and Craig W. Brandt

 

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS; REQUIRING THE PUBLIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT TO CREATE AN ANNUAL REPORT OF ALL STUDENTS WHO ARE SCHOOL-AGE AND HAVE NOT GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL WITHIN FOUR YEARS FROM ENTERING NINTH GRADE AND TO PROVIDE THE REPORT TO CERTAIN RECIPIENTS WHO PROVIDE ADULT EDUCATION OR PROGRAMMING TO ATTAIN A HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY CREDENTIAL.

 

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

     SECTION 1. A new section of the Public School Code is enacted to read:

     "[NEW MATERIAL] ANNUAL REPORT OF ALL OUT-OF-COHORT STUDENTS.--

          A. No later than July 15 after each school year, the department shall create a report of all out-of-cohort students who were enrolled in a public school during that immediately preceding school year.

          B. The department shall provide the report created pursuant to Subsection A of this section to the higher education department, public post-secondary educational institutions, adult basic education providers, workforce development programs and school districts or charter schools that provide programming for out-of-cohort students attaining a high school diploma or high school equivalency credential.

          C. As used in this section, "out-of-cohort students" means school-age persons who have not graduated from high school within four years from entering the ninth grade."

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