HOUSE BILL 284

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2006

INTRODUCED BY

Richard D. Vigil

AN ACT

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

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

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Five million dollars ($5,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the public education department for expenditure in fiscal year 2007 to develop and implement a browser-based computerized learning system accessible to the lowest twenty percent of students in academic performance, as determined by the department. The learning system shall be from a currently approved supplemental service provider and offer short cycle assessment, curriculum and reports under one management system, aligned to New Mexico content standards and benchmarks. 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 assessment, reading, writing, language arts, algebra, mathematics and English language learner components all under one management system that allows students and instructors to log on to a single web site with a single username and password for all instruction and reporting. 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 on to the learning system to track their children's progress. Students with appropriate internet access shall be able to log on to the system from home using standard internet browser programs. The learning system shall be able to be hosted on the provider's web server or on a public education department web server. 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 2007 shall revert to the general fund.

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