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HOUSE MEMORIAL 21
48
TH LEGISLATURE
- STATE OF NEW MEXICO -
SECOND SESSION
, 2008
INTRODUCED BY
Rick Miera
A MEMORIAL
ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR COMMUNITY SCHOOLS IN ORDER TO INCREASE
TEACHER-PARENT COMMUNICATIONS, PROVIDE INCREASED SECURITY AND
HEIGHTEN COMMUNITY PRIDE AND RAPPORT BETWEEN STUDENTS AND OTHER
COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
WHEREAS, school, community and family are inextricably
joined and must work closely together for the benefit of every
child and every community; and
WHEREAS, collaborative working relationships with schools,
the business community, social service agencies, government
agencies, faith-based organizations, civic groups, neighborhood
associations and post-secondary educational institutions
increase parent involvement and student academic achievement to
ensure an overall high quality of life; and
WHEREAS, Bernalillo county, the Albuquerque public schools
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and the city of Albuquerque have worked together for a number
of years on a community education model that would combine
resources from public and private sources to serve the
educational needs of all members of a community; and
WHEREAS, Bernalillo county, the Albuquerque public schools
and the city of Albuquerque approved resolutions to form a
community schools partnership and to set forth principles,
alternative approaches and a scope to accomplish the mission
and goals of a community education program; and
WHEREAS, Bernalillo county, the Albuquerque public schools
and the city of Albuquerque jointly participated with the
Albuquerque business education compact in a 2005 study with
high-level executives and staff members to clarify the options
and steps required to implement community schools within the
Albuquerque public school system; and
WHEREAS, the community schools approach recognizes that
only about twenty-two percent of a child's life until ten years
of age is spent in school and that conditions within the
family, neighborhood, among peers and within the larger
community affect young people's motivation to learn and be
successful in school; and
WHEREAS, the character of family life, family income,
stability, peer and family drug and alcohol use, mental health,
nutrition, housing, neighborhood crime, gangs, the educational
level of family members and the importance family members place
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on learning all have an impact on learning; and
WHEREAS, over fifty leaders from community schools in
Albuquerque were interviewed, and their responses contained
important guidance for implementing community schools; and
WHEREAS, Bernalillo county, the Albuquerque public schools
and the city of Albuquerque, along with the Albuquerque
business education compact, reviewed ten national and
international models of community schools nationwide; and
WHEREAS, the community schools task force recognized that
implementing community schools would require a significant
commitment of staff and financial resources by Bernalillo
county, the Albuquerque public schools, the city of Albuquerque
and the state's private foundations; and
WHEREAS, Bernalillo county, the Albuquerque public
schools, the city of Albuquerque and the Albuquerque business
education compact have each made a one-time contribution of one
hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to fund the start-up costs
and initial operations of the community schools partnership;
and
WHEREAS, Bernalillo county, the Albuquerque public schools
and the city of Albuquerque approved a joint powers agreement
to achieve administrative efficiency in the funding of programs
by the establishment of the community schools partnership; and
WHEREAS, Bernalillo county, the Albuquerque public schools
and the city of Albuquerque request a significant commitment of
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staff and financial resources from the state of New Mexico to
implement the community schools effort;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the state
commit staff and financial resources to implement the community
schools effort; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
transmitted to the superintendent of the Albuquerque public
schools and to the members of the legislative education study
committee.
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