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

SPONSOR Leavell

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/10/2007

HB

SHORT TITLE ENMU Network for Professional Development

SB 660

ANALYST Moser

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

$185.0

Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Duplicates SB 660 and HB 891.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Public Education Department (PED)

Higher Education Department (HED)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

Senate Bill 660 appropriates $185,000 from the General Fund to the ENMU Regents for

expenditure in FY 2008 for the College of Education and Technology to provide professional

development for teacher through distance education.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of $185,000 contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the General Fund.

Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY 2008 shall revert to the

General Fund.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

The Higher Education Department reports on the ENMU Program for Teacher Professional

Development (PTPD) as a project that provides short, experiential, and onsite professional

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development modules though distance education delivery and hybrid courses.

The courses are open to all licensed or certified teachers with a concentration on eastern New

Mexico. Professional development courses will include a comprehensive curriculum ranging

from the Reading First program, No Child No Left Behind requirements, and Core Knowledge.

ENMU currently offers few professional development courses through distance education which

benefits K-12 teachers in rural, isolated communities of New Mexico.

Components of the PTDP project include:

.

Qualified instructors would come from area expert practitioners or teacher education

faculty interested in alternatives modes of instruction and who have the expertise in the

specific areas;

.

Each module would contain material to satisfy at least one graduate credit hour seminar;

.

The intent of the graduate work would be to compile enough credits to equal (2) 3 credit

hour courses allowable in selected degree programs;

.

Course timeframes would vary due to flexibility of the distance education and hybrid

courses; and

.

The ENMU College of Education and Technology has experience in designing and

implementing the model due to the success of the NMPED approved Onsite Teaching

English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) endorsement and iSafe professional

development programs.

This request was not submitted by ENMU to HED for review and is not included in the

Department’s funding recommendation for FY08.

ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS

Teachers in eastern New Mexico have limited access to professional development. The success

of the current courses reflects the high demand for professional development to be taught

through distance education. Distance education courses provide accessibility to the K-12 rural

schools.

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