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...
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Please help get tribal education bills HB 198 and SB 482 over the finish line!
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...
Legislative win! Passage of HB 148 ensures tribal sovereignty in early childhood education
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...
Progress of tribal education bills: awaiting hearings in full Senate/House
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...
SB 482 proposes State-Tribal Education Compacts
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...
Tribal education bills HB 148 and HB 198 have crossed over to the Senate
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...
Support HB 147 to increase Indian Education Fund distributions to Tribes
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...
Tribal Education Trust Fund will have to wait another year
An important Tribal Remedy Framework initiative, the Tribal Education Trust Fund, will have to wait another year. As Representative Lente told New Mexico In Depth, he agreed to refrain from making further efforts to get $50 million for the Trust Fund into this year’s...
Support Tribal Remedy Framework bills in the House Education Committee!
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...
Wilhelmina Yazzie speaks in support of Trust Fund at the Roundhouse
“The Tribal Education Trust Fund is a critical piece of legislation because it will give us the necessary resources to provide our children with the educational opportunities they are entitled to, and that they deserve.” -Wilhelmina Yazzie Wilhelmina Yazzie, lead...