0001| AN ACT | 0002| MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO STUDY THE | 0003| FEASIBILITY OF INSTITUTING AN ACADEMY PROGRAM AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL | 0004| LEVEL. | 0005| | 0006| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO: | 0007| Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Seven thousand five hundred dollars | 0008| ($7,500) is appropriated from the general fund to the state department | 0009| of public education for expenditure in fiscal year 1997 to fund a study | 0010| of the feasibility of implementing an academy program at the middle | 0011| school level of public education in the Albuquerque public schools. The | 0012| state department of education shall submit a program evaluation to the | 0013| legislative education study committee and the legislative finance | 0014| committee by November 1, 1996, detailing the benefits of this program to | 0015| the targeted population. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance | 0016| remaining at the end of fiscal year 1997 shall revert to the general | 0017| fund. | 0018| | 0019| HB | 0020| 555 | 0021| Page  |