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SPONSOR |
Stewart |
DATE TYPED |
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HB |
526 |
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SHORT
TITLE |
Full Day Kindergarten Development Institute |
SB |
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ANALYST |
Baca |
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APPROPRIATION
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Appropriation
Contained |
Estimated
Additional Impact |
Recurring or
Non-Rec |
Fund Affected |
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FY04 |
FY05 |
FY04 |
FY05 |
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$35.0 |
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Recurring |
General Fund |
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Revenue Decreases)
Relates
to Appropriation in the General Appropriation Act
Relates to SB 15, SB 227, SB 488, HB 43 AND HB
235
LFC Files
Commission on Higher Education Funding
Recommendations for FY05 (CHE)
Response
Received From
New
Mexico Public Education Department (PED)
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
House Bill 526 appropriates $35 thousand from
the general fund to the Board of Regents of the University of
New Mexico (UNM) for expenditure in FY05 to collaborate with the Albuquerque
Public Schools to present a full-day kindergarten professional development
summer institute.
Significant Issues
The
effectiveness of school and university collaboration are
supported by findings from a study funded by the U.S. Department of Education
(USDE). UNM and APS collaboratively offered
a full-day kindergarten professional development summer institute in fiscal
years 2002 and 2003. A summer institute is also planned for fiscal year
2004. Funding has come from a variety of
sources, including Wells Fargo Bank, McCune Foundation, APS and the UNM College
of Education's Institute for Professional Development. According to the PED, the Full Day Kindergarten
Development Institute supports and provides a critical professional development
foundation for the Kindergarten Language Arts strand of the New Mexico Content
Standards, Benchmarks, and Performance Standards for APS.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The appropriation of $35 thousand contained in
this bill is a recurring expense to the general fund. Any unexpended or
unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY05 shall revert to the general
fund.
OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
This
request was not in the list of priority projects submitted to the Commission on
Higher Education for review. Consequently, this request was not included in the
Commission’s funding recommendations for FY05.
In the interest of accountability, the
institution receiving the appropriation in this bill shall submit a program
evaluation to the Legislative Finance Committee and the Commission on Higher
Education by August 2007 detailing the benefits to the State of
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