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SENATE BILL 387
57
TH LEGISLATURE
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STATE
OF
NEW
MEXICO
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FIRST SESSION
,
2025
INTRODUCED BY
Natalie Figueroa
AN ACT
RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS; CHANGING THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
FRAMEWORK; RENAMING THE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FUND IN HONOR OF DR.
JEANNIE OAKES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. Section 22-32-4 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2013,
Chapter 16, Section 4, as amended) is amended to read:
"22-32-4. COMMUNITY SCHOOLS INITIATIVES--INDIRECT COSTS--
GRANTS--SCHOOL DISTRICT, GROUP OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS OR PUBLIC
SCHOOL DUTIES--REQUIREMENTS.--
A. A school district shall bear any indirect costs
associated with the establishment and implementation of a
community school within the school district.
B. Subject to the availability of funding, grants
for community schools initiatives are available to a school
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district, a group of public schools or a single public school
that has demonstrated partnerships with the local community to
establish, operate and sustain the community school framework
and that meets department eligibility requirements.
C. The department shall promulgate rules and
procedures to distribute funds through a competitive grant
program developed and designed in partnership with the
coalition for community schools.
D. Applications for grants for community schools
initiatives shall be in the form prescribed by the department
to support a continuum of community school development.
E. A school district, a group of public schools or
a single public school that uses funds under this section to
transform a public school into an evidence-based community
schools initiative shall:
(1) use rigorous, transparent, equitable and
evidence-based evaluation systems to assess the effectiveness
of the implementation of the community schools initiative;
(2) provide ongoing, high-quality professional
development that:
(a) aligns with the community school's
instructional program;
(b) facilitates effective teaching and
learning; and
(c) supports the implementation of
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school reform strategies; and
(3) give the community school sufficient
operational flexibility in programming, curriculum, staffing,
budgeting and scheduling so that the community school can fully
implement a comprehensive community school framework designed
to focus on improving the community school climate, student
academic achievement, attendance, behavior, family engagement
and, for high schools, graduation rates and readiness for
college or a career.
F. If a grantee receives funding to implement the
community schools initiative at three or more public school
sites, the school district shall employ a community schools
director or manager to oversee and coordinate implementation
across all of the covered school sites and ensure the
employment of a community school coordinator by the lead
partner agency at each school site.
G. A school district or public school may use Title
1 funds for its community schools initiative and the department
may use Title 1 funds to invest in community schools statewide.
H. The department is authorized to provide
planning, implementation and renewal grants to eligible
applicants as follows:
(1) a one-year, one-time planning grant of up
to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for each eligible public
school to conduct an initial school and community needs
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assessment, identify community supports and services through
asset mapping and establish a site-based leadership team; [and ]
(2) annual implementation grants of up to one
hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) each year for a
period of three years for each eligible school; and
(3) at the conclusion of the initial
three-year grant period, applicants may apply for a renewal
grant for one year in an amount determined by the department.
I. Eligible applicants shall provide satisfactory
documentation required by the department that the applicant
intends to apply for an implementation grant within six months
of receiving a planning grant.
J. Eligible applicants shall submit an application
for an implementation or renewal grant to the department for
each eligible community school through the grant authorization
process."
SECTION 2. Section 22-32-6 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2019,
Chapter 198, Section 3) is amended to read:
"22-32-6. COMMUNITY SCHOOL FRAMEWORK--COMMUNITY SCHOOL
COORDINATOR.--
A. The community school framework shall ensure the
use of research- and evidence-based strategies and best
practices that support students, families and communities in
ensuring student success, [and shall include: (1) ] including
integrated student supports that address [non-academic and out-
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of-school barriers to learning through partnerships with social
and health service agencies and providers that may include
school-based or school-linked health care, case management
services and family stability supports coordinated by a
community school coordinator and that are culturally and
linguistically responsive to the needs of students and their
families;
(2) expanded and enriched learning time and
opportunities, including before-school, after-school, weekend,
summer and year-round programs, that provide additional
academic support, enrichment activities and other programs that
may be offered in partnership with community-based
organizations to enhance academic learning, social skills,
emotional skills and life skills and are aligned with the
school's curriculum;
(3) active family and community engagement
that:
(a) values the experiences of people
from diverse backgrounds as empowered partners in decision
making and encourages partnerships with parents or caregivers
to develop and promote a vision for student success;
(b) offers courses, activities and
services for parents or caregivers and community members; and
(c) creates structures and opportunities
for shared leadership; and
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(4) collaborative leadership and practices
that build a culture of professional learning, collective trust
and shared responsibility using strategies that at a minimum
include a site-based leadership team and a community school
coordinator.
B. The community school framework may include:
(1) broader use of public school facilities in
which school buildings become hubs for neighborhood events,
activities, advocacy and civic life;
(2) community-based curriculum in which the
content of instruction is centered on local knowledge, service
learning and problem-solving around community issues; and
(3) public pre-kindergarten and other state
and federally funded early childhood services that:
(a) support working families and help
ensure that children come to kindergarten ready to learn;
(b) provide students and working parents
or caregivers with full-day and after-school child care;
(c) provide high-quality pre-
kindergarten programs that are aligned to early childhood
professional and curricular early learning standards;
(d) provide health, vision, dental and
other supports and services to children before school age; and
(e) include strong partnerships and
alignment with early learning centers and child care providers
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that may include transportation or coordination to meet the
broader early childhood community needs.
C.] students' noninstructional school barriers.
B. The lead partner agency shall employ a community
school coordinator to:
(1) implement the community school framework;
(2) lead the needs and assets assessment;
(3) facilitate communication between partners
as a stakeholder- and community-driven approach to problem-
solving;
(4) guide data-informed continuous
improvement;
(5) manage data collection; and
(6) align, leverage and coordinate resources
for student and family success."
SECTION 3. Section 22-32-8 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2019,
Chapter 198, Section 7) is amended to read:
"22-32-8. DR. JEANNIE OAKES MEMORIAL COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
FUND--CREATED--ACCOUNTABILITY.--
A. The "Dr. Jeannie Oakes memorial community
schools fund" is created as a nonreverting fund in the state
treasury. The fund consists of appropriations, gifts, grants
and donations. The department shall administer the fund, and
money in the fund is appropriated to the department to
distribute grant awards to support the development and
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implementation of community schools initiatives.
B. The department shall ensure that the money
expended from the Dr. Jeannie Oakes memorial community schools
fund is used for the purposes stated in the Community Schools
Act and shall not be used to correct for previous reductions in
program services."
SECTION 4. APPLICABILITY.--The provisions of this act
apply to the 2025-2026 school year and subsequent school years.
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