New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

New Mexico Senate Bill SJM3 Compare Versions

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28	28	SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 3
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30	30	TH LEGISLATURE
31	31	- STATE OF NEW MEXICO -
32	32	FIRST SESSION
33	33	, 2025
34	34	INTRODUCED BY
35	35	Cindy Nava and Angel M. Charley and Derrick J. Lente
36	36	A JOINT MEMORIAL
37	37	HONORING NEW MEXICO'S INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION
38	38	BILINGUAL EDUCATION FACULTIES' EFFORTS AND REQUESTING THE
39	39	LEGISLATURE TO DECREE A JOINT BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN ELEMENTARY
40	40	BILINGUAL MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION AMONG THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW
41	41	MEXICO, WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY, NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS
42	42	UNIVERSITY AND NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY.
43	43	WHEREAS, on the evening of the fifty-second anniversary of
44	44	the Bilingual Multicultural Education Act, the legislature
45	45	acknowledges the need for well-prepared bilingual and
46	46	multilingual educators who will serve the unique cultural and
47	47	linguistic diversity of New Mexico; and
48	48	WHEREAS, in 2015, the university of New Mexico was
49	49	designated as the recipient of funding to design and develop an
50	50	undergraduate bilingual education degree with New Mexico
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78	78	highlands university, eastern New Mexico university, New Mexico
79	79	state university and western New Mexico university; and
80	80	WHEREAS, in New Mexico, bilingual faculty from the state's
81	81	institutions of higher education have developed and taught
82	82	bilingual coursework since the early 1970s; and
83	83	WHEREAS, New Mexico highlands university developed and
84	84	implemented a master's degree program in bilingual education in
85	85	1971 through 1975; and
86	86	WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico established the
87	87	American Indian language policy research and teacher training
88	88	center in 2007 to support indigenous language maintenance and
89	89	revitalization initiatives; and
90	90	WHEREAS, numerous bilingual education faculty from across
91	91	the state's institutions of higher education have provided
92	92	expert testimony at state, federal and congressional hearings
93	93	and commissions regarding the need for supporting bilingual
94	94	education policies and programing; and
95	95	WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico's Native American
96	96	bilingual faculty were instrumental in the development and
97	97	implementation of a New Mexico 520 alternative certification
98	98	process to increase the number of Native American language
99	99	teachers in New Mexico public schools; and
100	100	WHEREAS, recent efforts of bilingual education faculty in
101	101	New Mexico's institutions of higher education have resulted in
102	102	the development of bilingual chapters of educators increasing
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131	131	in New Mexico in feeder high schools and in institutions of
132	132	higher education for the purpose of growing new generations of
133	133	bilingual teachers; and
134	134	WHEREAS, the Spanish proficiency endorsement exam, whose
135	135	name translates to "la prueba for Spanish bilingual teachers",
136	136	was co-created in the 1990s by a New Mexico highlands
137	137	university bilingual faculty member to ensure that students
138	138	receive high-quality instruction in New Mexico public schools;
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140	140	WHEREAS, New Mexico adopted the state seal of
141	141	bilingualism-biliteracy in 2014 to encourage the study of
142	142	languages among New Mexico's secondary students; and
143	143	WHEREAS, numerous bilingual education faculty in New
144	144	Mexico institutions of higher education have served in
145	145	leadership positions on the bilingual multicultural education
146	146	advisory council, the New Mexico association for bilingual
147	147	education and dual language education of New Mexico; and
148	148	WHEREAS, there is a dire shortage of bilingual teachers,
149	149	resulting in the inability of the state to respond to major
150	150	findings of fact and conclusions of law in the Martinez/Yazzie
151	151	v. State of New Mexico case and to fulfill the promise
152	152	envisioned in the Bilingual Multicultural Education Act;
153	153	NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
154	154	STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the higher education department be
155	155	requested to work with the university of New Mexico, western
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184	184	New Mexico university, New Mexico highlands university and New
185	185	Mexico state university bilingual education faculty to develop
186	186	a joint bachelor's degree in elementary bilingual multicultural
187	187	education; and
188	188	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the higher education
189	189	department be requested to review and address the need for
190	190	providing scholarships for individuals who currently hold a
191	191	bachelor's or master's degree in bilingual education, or
192	192	students who graduated with a state seal of bilingualism-
193	193	biliteracy on the students' New Mexico diploma of excellence,
194	194	to cover the cost of pursuing a doctorate in bilingual
195	195	education in order to teach bilingual education to college of
196	196	education students at state institutions of higher education in
197	197	New Mexico; and
198	198	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that funds be made available to
199	199	support an increase of bilingual education faculty lines to
200	200	support this joint elementary bilingual multicultural education
201	201	degree; and
202	202	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that students who graduate with the
203	203	state seal of bilingualism-biliteracy be granted college credit
204	204	in a language other than English throughout all institutions of
205	205	higher education, including indigenous students, regardless of
206	206	whether those students' languages are written or oral; and
207	207	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the higher education
208	208	department be requested to review and address the need for
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237	237	providing scholarships for students pursuing bilingual
238	238	multicultural education teaching degrees or bilingual
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240	240	universities and colleges; and
241	241	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the public education
242	242	department be requested to fully address, fund and support the
243	243	linguistic rights of New Mexico's bilingual multicultural
244	244	students, as provided for in Article 12, Section 8 of the
245	245	constitution of New Mexico, the Bilingual Multicultural
246	246	Education Act and the federal Native American Languages Act,
247	247	and comply with the court rulings of Serna v. Portales, Lau v.
248	248	Nichols, Castaneda v. Pickard and Martinez/Yazzie v. State of
249	249	New Mexico; and
250	250	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
251	251	transmitted to the deans of the colleges of education of the
252	252	university of New Mexico, western New Mexico university, New
253	253	Mexico highlands university and New Mexico state university,
254	254	the secretary of public education and the secretary of higher
255	255	education.
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