HOUSE BILL 670

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2005

INTRODUCED BY

Richard D. Vigil

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE PUBLIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT A BROWSER-BASED COMPUTERIZED LEARNING SYSTEM.

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Four million dollars ($4,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the public education department for expenditure in fiscal year 2006 to develop and implement a browser-based computerized learning system that aligns public schools' curricula to New Mexico content standards and benchmarks and current textbooks. The learning system shall diagnose students' skill deficiencies, automatically prescribe individual learning paths to address the students' specific learning needs and measure objectives by grade levels. Curriculum content shall provide for the teaching, practice, testing and use of specific skills. The learning system shall provide reading, writing, language arts, algebra, mathematics and English language learner programs. The learning system shall also allow teachers to extend and customize lessons as appropriate. The learning system shall be designed and implemented so that parents may log onto the learning system to track their children's progress. The learning system shall be a program or system already approved and listed in a New Mexico state contract between the public education department and an approved supplemental service provider. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2006 shall revert to the general fund.

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