0001| HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 55
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0002| 42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION,
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0003| 1996
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0004| INTRODUCED BY
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0005| ROBERTO "BOBBY" J. GONZALES
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0011| A MEMORIAL
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0012| REQUESTING THAT THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION STUDY THE
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0013| FEASIBILITY OF ALLOCATING ALL STATE BILINGUAL EDUCATION FUNDING
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0014| TO THEIR BILINGUAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS.
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0016| WHEREAS, minority students represent sixty and five-tenths
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0017| percent of the total New Mexico public school enrollment, and
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0018| forty-two percent of that minority student population has
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0019| limited proficiency in English; and
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0020| WHEREAS, bilingual education is an instructional
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0021| methodology used by school districts to address the educational
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0022| needs of limited-English-proficient students; and
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0023| WHEREAS, the United States department of education's office
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0024| for civil rights, in 1995, found that programs for limited-English-proficient students in several New Mexico school
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0025| districts were not in compliance with a number of requirements
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0001| under Title 6 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of
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0002| the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or Title 2 of the Americans with
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0003| Disabilities Act of 1990; and
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0004| WHEREAS, among the findings of the office for civil rights'
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0005| report concerning programs for students with limited English
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0006| proficiency was the failure to provide adequate resources, such
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0007| as instructional material and equipment, the failure to provide
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0008| enough teachers who are qualified to teach the programs selected
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0009| by the district and the failure to provide sufficient in-service
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0010| training; and
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0011| WHEREAS, school districts are not currently required to
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0012| allocate all bilingual education funding provided by the state
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0013| and generated by the number of identified limited-English-proficient students in a district to their bilingual education
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0014| programs;
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0015| NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0016| STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the state board of education, in
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0017| cooperation with the legislative education study committee and
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0018| school district representatives, be requested to study the
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0019| feasibility of requiring school districts to allocate all state
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0020| bilingual education funding generated by the number of limited-English-proficient students in their districts to their
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0021| bilingual education programs; and
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0022| BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the state department of public
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0023| education be requested to report to the legislative education
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0024| study committee by October 1, 1996 concerning the allocation of
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0025| state funding for bilingual education at the school district
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0001| level; and
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0002| BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0003| transmitted to the superintendent of public instruction and the
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0004| director of the legislative education study committee for
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0005| appropriate distribution.
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0006| State of New Mexico
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0007| House of Representatives
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0009| FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
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0010| SECOND SESSION, 1996
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0012| February 8, l996
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0015| Mr. Speaker:
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0017| Your RULES AND ORDER OF BUSINESS COMMITTEE, to
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0018| whom has been referred
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0020| HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 55
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0022| has had it under consideration and finds same to be
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0023| GERMANE in accordance with constitutional provisions.
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0024|
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0025| Respectfully submitted,
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0005| Barbara A. Perea Casey,
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0006| Chairperson
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0009| Adopted Not Adopted
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0011| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)
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0013| Date
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0015| The roll call vote was 9 For 0 Against
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0016| Yes: 9
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0017| Excused: Knowles, Lujan, Nicely, Ryan, J. G. Taylor, Wallach
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0018| Absent: None
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0020| HJ055RC1 State of New Mexico
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0021| House of Representatives
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0022|
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0023| FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
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0024| SECOND SESSION, 1996
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0002| February 14, 1996
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0005| Mr. Speaker:
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0007| Your EDUCATION COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0009| HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 55
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0011| has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0012| recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:
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0014| 1. On page 2, line 20, strike "all" and insert in lieu
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0015| thereof "a percentage of".
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0017| 2. On page 2, line 21, strike "generated by" and insert in
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0018| lieu thereof "proportional to".
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0020| 3. On page 2, lines 21 and 22, strike "limited English-proficient" and insert in lieu thereof "bilingual".
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0021|
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0022| Respectfully submitted,
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0003| Samuel F. Vigil, Chairman
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0006| Adopted Not Adopted
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0008| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)
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0010| Date
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0012| The roll call vote was 9 For 0 Against
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0013| Yes: 9
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0014| Excused: Trujillo, Weeks, SM Williams
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0015| Absent: None
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0018| .112126.1
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0019| HJ055EC1
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