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AN ACT
RELATING TO EDUCATION; ESTABLISHING A UNIFORM STATEWIDE
TEACHER ACCOUNTABILITY REPORTING SYSTEM; REQUIRING THE PUBLIC
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT TO ISSUE RULES FOR TRAINING AND OTHER
REQUIREMENTS FOR UNLICENSED CONTENT AREA EXPERTS; CLARIFYING
TEACHER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM COMPONENTS; CHANGING THE
DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS FOR MENTORSHIP PROGRAMS; REQUIRING A
UNIFORM STUDENT IDENTIFICATION NUMBER FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND
PUBLIC POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
Section 1. Section 22-10A-8 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2003,
Chapter 153, Section 39) is amended to read:
"22-10A-8. ALTERNATIVE LEVEL ONE LICENSE.--
A. The department shall issue an alternative level
one license to a person who is at least eighteen years of age
and who has:
(1) completed a baccalaureate degree at an
accredited institution of higher education, including
completion of a minimum of thirty credit hours at either the
undergraduate or graduate level in the subject area of
instruction for which the person is applying for a license;
(2) completed a master's degree at an
accredited institution of higher education, including
completion of a minimum of twelve graduate credit hours in
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the subject area of instruction for which the person is
applying for a license; or
(3) completed a doctoral or law degree at an
accredited institution of higher education; and
(4) passed the New Mexico teacher
assessments examination; and
(5) completed a minimum of twelve semester
hours of instruction in teaching principles in a program
approved by the department; or
(6) demonstrated to the department, in
conjunction with the school district or state agency, that
the person has met the department-approved competencies for
level one teachers that correspond to the grade level that
will be taught.
B. A degree referred to in Subsection A of this
section shall correspond to the subject area of instruction
and the particular grade level that will enable the applicant
to teach in a competent manner as determined by the
department.
C. An alternative level one teacher shall
participate in the same mentorship, evaluation and other
professional development requirements as other level one
teachers.
D. A school district or state agency shall not
discriminate against a teacher on the basis that the teacher
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holds an alternative level one license.
E. The department shall provide by rule for
training and other requirements to support the use of
unlicensed content area experts as resources in classrooms,
team teaching, on-line instruction, curriculum development
and other purposes."
Section 2. A new section of Chapter 22, Article 10A
NMSA 1978 is enacted to read:
"TEACHER EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT.--
A. The department shall:
(1) design a uniform statewide teacher
education accountability reporting system to measure and
track teacher education candidates from pre-entry to
post-graduation in order to benchmark the productivity and
accountability of New Mexico's teacher work force; provided
that the system shall be designed in collaboration with:
(a) all public post-secondary teacher
preparation programs in New Mexico, including those programs
that issue alternative licenses;
(b) the teacher preparation programs'
respective public post-secondary educational institutions;
and
(c) the higher education department;
(2) require all public post-secondary
teacher preparation programs to submit the data required for
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the uniform statewide teacher education accountability
reporting system through the department's student teacher
accountability reporting system;
(3) use the uniform statewide teacher
education accountability reporting system, in conjunction
with the department's student teacher education
accountability reporting system, to assess the status of the
state's efforts to establish and maintain a seamless
pre-kindergarten through post-graduate system of education;
(4) adopt the format for reporting the
outcome measures of each teacher preparation program in the
state; and
(5) issue an annual statewide teacher
education accountability report.
B. The annual teacher education accountability
report format shall be clear, concise and understandable to
the legislature and the general public. All annual program
and statewide accountability reports shall ensure that the
privacy of individual students is protected.
C. Each teacher preparation program's annual
teacher education accountability report shall include the
demographic characteristics of the students and the following
indicators of program success:
(1) the standards for entering and exiting
the program;
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(2) the number of hours required for field
experience and for student teaching;
(3) the number and percentage of students
needing developmental course work upon entering the program;
(4) the number and percentage of students
completing the program;
(5) the number and types of degrees received
by students who complete the program;
(6) the number and percentage of students
who pass the New Mexico teacher assessments for initial
licensure on the first attempt;
(7) a description of the program's placement
practices; and
(8) the number and percentage of students
hired by New Mexico school districts.
D. The teacher education accountability report
shall include an evaluation plan that includes high
performance objectives. The plan shall include objectives
and measures for:
(1) increasing student achievement for all
students;
(2) increasing teacher retention,
particularly in the first three years of a teacher's career;
(3) increasing the percentage of students
who pass the New Mexico teacher assessments for initial
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licensure on the first attempt;
(4) increasing the percentage of secondary
school classes taught in core academic subject areas by
teachers who demonstrate by means of rigorous content area
assessments a high level of subject area mastery and a
thorough knowledge of the state's academic content and
performance standards;
(5) increasing the percentage of elementary
school classes taught by teachers who demonstrate by means of
a high level of performance in core academic subject areas
their mastery of the state academic content and performance
standards; and
(6) increasing the number of teachers
trained in math, science and technology.
E. In addition to the specifications in
Subsections C and D of this section, the annual teacher
education accountability report shall also include itemized
information on program revenues and expenditures, including
staff salaries and benefits and the operational cost per
credit hour.
F. The annual teacher education accountability
report shall be adopted by each public post-secondary
educational institution, reported in accordance with
guidelines established by the department to ensure effective
communication with the public and disseminated to the
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governor, legislators and other policymakers and business and
economic development organizations by November 1 of each
year."
Section 3. Section 22-10A-9 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2003,
Chapter 153, Section 40, as amended by Laws 2005, Chapter
315, Section 6 and by Laws 2005, Chapter 316, Section 3) is
amended to read:
"22-10A-9. TEACHER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM FOR LEVEL ONE
TEACHERS--PURPOSE--DEPARTMENT DUTIES.--
A. The purpose of the teacher mentorship program
is to provide beginning teachers with an effective transition
into the teaching field, to build on their initial
preparation and to ensure their success in teaching; to
improve the achievement of students; and to retain capable
teachers in the classroom and to remove teachers who show
little promise of success.
B. The department shall develop a framework for a
teacher mentorship program for all level one teachers. The
department shall work with licensed school employees,
representatives from teacher preparation programs and the
higher education department to establish the framework.
C. The framework shall include:
(1) individual support and assistance for
each beginning teacher from a designated mentor;
(2) structured training for mentors;
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(3) an ongoing, formative evaluation that is
used for the improvement of teaching practice;
(4) procedures for a summative evaluation of
beginning teachers' performance during at least the first
three years of teaching, including annual assessment of
suitability for license renewal, and for final assessment of
beginning teachers seeking level two licensure;
(5) support from local school boards, school
administrators and other school district personnel; and
(6) regular review and evaluation of the
teacher mentorship program.
D. The department shall:
(1) require submission and approval of each
school district's teacher mentorship program;
(2) provide technical assistance to school
districts that do not have a well-developed teacher
mentorship program in place;
(3) encourage school districts to
collaborate with teacher preparation program administrators
at institutions of higher education, career educators,
educational organizations, regional service centers and other
state and community leaders in the teacher mentorship
program; and
(4) distribute available funds for
mentorship programs to school districts annually on a
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per-teacher basis according to the number of beginning
teachers on the fortieth day of the school year.
E. The department shall require that teacher
preparation programs collaborate with colleges of arts and
sciences and high schools to develop a model to provide
mentorship services with structured supervision and feedback
to each of their graduates who have obtained a teaching
position in a public high school, including charter schools;
develop cost estimates; and provide recommendations to the
legislative education study committee by November 1, 2007.
The model shall provide for the following:
(1) mentorship services for the first year
as a level one teacher to each of their graduates who has
obtained a teaching position in any New Mexico public high
school, including charter schools; provided that teacher
preparation programs may enter into contracts or memoranda of
agreement with each other or with level three teachers in
providing services to their students;
(2) an annual report to the department of
the number of teachers that have completed each of their
programs the previous spring or summer and have been hired by
public high schools, including charter schools, for the
following school year; and
(3) an annual report providing a description
of the mentorship services that will be provided to each of
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their teachers, including the name of the teacher, the grade
level the teacher has been hired to teach and the name of the
school and district where the teacher has been hired."
Section 4. A new section of Chapter 21, Article 1 NMSA
1978 is enacted to read:
"PUBLIC POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS--STUDENT
IDENTIFICATION NUMBER.--
A. The higher education department shall, in
collaboration with public post-secondary educational
institutions, use the same student identification number
issued to a New Mexico public school student pursuant to
Section 22-2C-11 NMSA 1978 for a student enrolled in a public
post-secondary educational institution, including an
off-campus instructional program or learning center.
B. In collaboration with the public education
department, the higher education department shall:
(1) develop a system for assigning a unique
student identifier to a student who did not attend a New
Mexico public school;
(2) add an additional identifier to the
student identification number for those students who enter a
teacher preparation program; and
(3) adopt the format to report individual
student data into the public education department's student
teacher accountability reporting system.
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C. The higher education department shall
promulgate rules to carry out the provisions of this
section."