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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR McSorley

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

1/31/2006

HB

SHORT TITLE Amy Biehl Charter High School Justice Program

SB 340

ANALYST McOlash

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY06

FY07

$25.0

Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Amy Biehl Charter High School (ABCHS)

Responses Received From

Public Education Department (PED)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

Senate Bill 340 appropriate $25,000 from the General Fund to the PED for expenditure in FY

2007 for a restorative justice program at the Amy Biehl Charter High School in Albuquerque.

Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY 2007 shall revert to

the General Fund.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the General Fund. .

Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year shall revert to the

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

Amy Biehl High School is creating a partnership with Facing History and Ourselves, an interna-

tional organization that got its start creating curriculum for holocaust studies. It now has

branched into developing curriculum around restorative/transitional justice curriculum and bases

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its work on research in South Africa, Bosnia, Northern Ireland and other places moving toward

democracy.

In FY 2006, the high school provided funding for staff development. Plans, in the next fiscal

year, are to develop New Mexico-based curriculum that can be disseminated to a wider audi-

ence. A likely topic will be Land Grants as well as others.

WHAT WILL BE THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT ENACTING THIS BILL

The restorative justice program equips students with the knowledge and skills to identify root

causes of injustice, their responsibility for taking action, and the development agreements to

change behaviors and re-enter the school community.

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