HOUSE BILL 302

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2008

INTRODUCED BY

Mary Helen Garcia

AN ACT

RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS; CREATING A SUMMER INTENSIVE INSTRUCTION PILOT PROJECT AT LAS CRUCES HIGH SCHOOL; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.

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] SUMMER INTENSIVE INSTRUCTION PILOT PROJECT--LAS CRUCES HIGH SCHOOL.--The department and the Las Cruces public school district shall design a four-year "summer intensive instruction pilot project" to be instituted at Las Cruces high school. The pilot project shall provide funding to support intensive technology-based supplementary instruction in rigorous summer programs in English and mathematics for grades nine through eleven. The purpose of the pilot project is to determine the efficacy of summer intensive instruction on student achievement during the next school year and the effect the program has on the school dropout rate. Each summer intensive instructional program shall be at least four weeks in duration. The pilot project shall include an annual evaluation phase that tracks Las Cruces high school students and their academic achievement and provides other data sufficient to determine the efficacy of the pilot project. Insofar as practicable, data collection and reporting shall be consistent with requirements of the student teacher accountability reporting system. The department and the school district shall report to the legislative education study committee by July 1 of each year on the past school year's success in improving the academic standing of Las Cruces high school students. The department and school district shall provide a written report, including findings and recommendations, to the legislative education study committee at the end of the pilot project."

     Section 2. APPROPRIATION.--Five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the public education department for expenditure in fiscal year 2009 for distribution to the Las Cruces public school district to implement a summer intensive instruction pilot project at Las Cruces high school. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2009 shall revert to the general fund.