2019 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 22 - Public Schools
Article 32 - Community Schools
Section 22-32-2 - Purpose.
The Community Schools Act is enacted to provide a strategy to organize the resources of a community to ensure student success while addressing the needs, including cultural and linguistic needs, of the whole student from early childhood programs and voluntary public pre-kindergarten through high school graduation; to partner federal, state and local and tribal governments with community-based organizations to improve the coordination, delivery, effectiveness and efficiency of services provided to students and families; and to coordinate resources, in order to align and leverage community resources and integrate funding streams.
History: Laws 2013, ch. 16, § 2; 2019, ch. 198, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, expanded the purpose of community schools to address the cultural and linguistic needs of students from early childhood programs and pre-kindergarten through high school graduation; after "addressing the needs", added "including cultural and linguistic needs", after "whole student", added "from early childhood programs and voluntary public pre-kindergarten through high school graduation", after "state and local", deleted "entities" and added "and tribal governments", after "with", deleted "private", and after "provided to", deleted "children" and added "students".
