by Anja Rudiger | Mar 13, 2023 | Alerts
Wednesday morning, March 15, HB 280 (Rep. Lente) Technical Assistance Centers for Indian Education, will be heard in the Senate Education Committee. Please email the Committee at [email protected] and ask them to pass HB 280, then contact your Senator and ask them...
by Anja Rudiger | Mar 12, 2023 | Alerts
Two important tribal education bills are awaiting a vote on the Senate Floor: HB 198, Career Technical Funds for Indian Ed. Schools, sponsored by Rep. Lente, and SB 482, State-Tribal Education Compact Schools Act, sponsored by Sen. Shendo. Please contact your Senator...
by Anja Rudiger | Mar 11, 2023 | Alerts
The first of this year’s Tribal Remedy Framework bills has passed the New Mexico Legislature and is headed to the Governor’s desk to be signed into law! On March 10, the Senate unanimously voted to pass HB 148, Early Childhood Department Tribal Agreements, which...
by Anja Rudiger | Mar 9, 2023 | Alerts
This week, HB 280, Technical Assistance Centers for Indian Education, and HB 198, Career Technical Funds for BIE Schools, advanced to the House Floor and Senate Floor, respectively. HB 280 must now cross over to the Senate, so its swift passage by the House will be...
by Anja Rudiger | Mar 8, 2023 | Alerts
Senator Benny Shendo, D-Jemez Pueblo, is sponsoring SB 482, which authorizes state-tribal education compacts. Such compacts – formal agreements between the NM Public Education Department and a New Mexico Tribe, Nation or Pueblo – would allow a Tribe to operate a...
