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...
by Anja Rudiger | Feb 26, 2023 | Alerts
The Tribal Remedy Framework’s early childhood education bill, HB 148, successfully crossed over to the Senate after securing a unanimous vote in the House. On Monday morning, Feb. 27, at 9 am, HB 148 will be heard in the Senate Education Committee, Room 311. This bill...
by Anja Rudiger | Feb 21, 2023 | Alerts
On February 21, the House Appropriations and Finance Committee will hear HB 147, which amends the New Mexico Indian Education Act. This bill will increase the distributions to Tribes from the Indian Education Fund and ensure that balances no longer revert. HB 147 is...
by Anja Rudiger | Feb 16, 2023 | Alerts
Please join us at two upcoming House Education Committee hearings: Friday, Feb. 17, at 8:30 am, the Committee will hear HB 280, American Indian Ed. Technical Assistance Centers. This bill will establish two Technical Assistance Centers to support school districts and...
by Anja Rudiger | Feb 5, 2023 | Alerts
On Monday, Feb. 6, at 8:30a.m., the House Indian Affairs Committee will hear HB 148, a Tribal Remedy Framework bill supporting culturally and linguistically relevant early childhood education in tribal communities. Please join us at the Roundhouse, Room 305, to show...
