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SPONSOR: |
Cervantes |
DATE TYPED: |
2-5-02 |
HB |
275 |
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SHORT TITLE: |
Repeal Public School Code |
SB |
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ANALYST: |
Segura |
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APPROPRIATION
Appropriation
Contained |
Estimated
Additional Impact |
Recurring or Non-Rec |
Fund Affected |
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FY02 |
FY03 |
FY02 |
FY03 |
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$20.0 |
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Indeterminate |
Recurring |
General Fund |
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(Parenthesis
( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
State Department of Education (SDE)
SUMMARY
Synopsis
of Bill
House Bill 275 repeals
the Public School Code and creates the Public School Code Review Task Force.
Significant
Issues
House Bill 275 creates a 16-member Public School Code Review Task Force composed as follows:
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three members ( including two principals and one
teacher) appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives;
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two members (including one principal and one
teacher ) appointed by the minority leader of the House of Representatives;
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three members ( including two principals and one
teacher) appointed by the President Pro Tem of the Senate;
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two members ( including one principal and one
teacher) appointed by the minority leader of the Senate;
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one member of the Governor’s staff
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one member of the business community appointed
by the Governor;
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one school parent appointed by the Governor;
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two school district superintendents appointed by
the state superintendents’s association;
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one member appointed by the State Board of
Education.
The members will be appointed by July 31,2002
and function as a task force until December 31, 2003.
The bill charges the task force with conducting
a review of the “Public School Code and state board of education rules
governing primary and secondary education in
New Mexico to identify those statutes and rules that unnecessarily
burden administrators and teachers at the school site, and that prevent
administrators and teachers at the school site from effectively performing
their roles as instructional leaders and educators.”
The task force is directed to present its
findings and recommendations no later than December 31, 2003. The State
Department of Education is directed to staff the task force.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
House Bill 275
appropriates $20.0 from the general fund for the per diem and mileage costs for
members.
According to SDE, the
task force will place a significant burden on the department to be absorbed
within available resources. In
addition, to the staffing requirements the projects suggests the need for
experts in a variety of areas, and no appropriation is available to support
this function.
ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS
According to SDE, if
the outcome of the task force is to rewrite the Public School Code in its entirety,
the department will be required to implement
changed requirements in a broad variety of areas, including public
school funding, program requirements, transportation accountability and numerous
other areas. Also, public school districts will be required to implement and respond
to changed requirements. A complete
revamping of the state’s system of public education will require significant
fiscal and administrative resources for implementation, both at the state and
local levels.
OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
According to SDE, the
provisions of the Public School Code are broad-ranging and cover virtually all
aspects of the public education system. The task of rewriting the code in its
entirety in an 18 month period is formidable, given the complexity of a number
of the areas subsumed in the code.
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