Video & Transcript Research : 'LESC'
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New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Oct 15th, 2025
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- The last piece is that the work group made up of LFC, LESC, and DFA cannot require P.E.D. to accept a
- I also want to thank LFC, DFA, and LESC for a very collaborative process with P.E.D.
- Perspective has been really important to us from LESC, DFA, and LFC.
- So we have on page 5, and this is in the deck from DFA, LFC, and LESC.
- Actually, to give LESC a lot of credit, when they put up this timeline, they actually put guidelines
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- On the next slide, you'll see some background on the 2011 joint LESC and LFC evaluation about the SEG
- Chair, now I'm going to walk you through the actual proposal from the LESC and its staff.
- This ended up becoming a joint LF-CFC-LESC bill in the 2019 session, where there were massive reforms
- the right folks to develop that plan and actually asked the Legislative Education Study Committee (LESC
- Chair, Senators Biason, so LESC has not done a recent study on charter schools.
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- And then the last temporary provision here is that LESC, along with LFC and PED and others, will study
- Why are the finance restrictions being imposed before the LESCE study is even completed in November of
- None of the recommendations for the budget, neither the executive, LFC, or LESC, included...
- And the reason why we have LFC, PED, LESC, and legislators involved is because it involves everybody.
- here that you think do too much too soon, I'll just point out, at the risk of sounding defensive, LESC
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general appropriation, budget, Medicaid, education funding, public safety, higher education, research funding, federal funding, New Mexico, appropriation, University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, child care, child care assistance, child care subsidy, early childhood education, early childhood care, daycare, preschool
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New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Government, Elections And Indian Affairs Feb 7th, 2026 at 10:15 am
House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs
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- This is an area the LESC has been talking about for many years.
- prepared amendments; however, the 24-hour rule—and, you know, collaboration takes time— Senator Stuart, LESC
- days, and we have agreement among all parties: PED, the House Education Committee leadership, myself, LESC
- This was an LESC-endorsed bill, but I think the amendments make it much stronger and much better.
- I did attend LESC in the last couple of months during the interim, where these topics were heavily discussed
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- I'm not sure what you mean by committee analysis from the LESC or from our committee.
- Well, and some of the analysis might be LESC, but LESC does not do higher-end analysis. I got you.
- And bills like this and the last one may be more again. why we're pushing to try and have LESC.
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New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Jun 27th, 2025
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- talking to many of you, and I hope to get to talk to more of you throughout the, the time that I'm with LESC
- Hi, my name is Sofia Gonzalez and I have the honor to be a summer intern with LESC this summer.
- Um, in the court's, uh, ruling, it did not, it did not require LESC to participate, but said that staff
- to do best, which is to provide uh relevant national and international studies, as well as original LESC
- So, um, between L LFC and LESC, so they've lost a lot of educator, um, representation.
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New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study May 30th, 2025
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- This is a wonderful list of the incredible things that education committees have done through the LESC
- So I just wanna make sure that PED and the LESC that when we look at attendance, we make sure we include
- Chairman, and As usual, the LESC staff, I think, has just put together an incredible set of documents
- Chairman, I would like to move adoption of the, uh, roadmap, the research agenda and work plan for the LESC
- On the LESC rule overview document, you will find at the bottom of page 1 and on the top of page 2 the
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New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Apr 30th, 2026
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- Chairman, members of the committee, my name is Daniel and I cover public school finance for the LESC.
- Presentation: Research Agenda and LESC Roadmap, Jessica.
- So another key item that we use in doing this work is our LESC Roadmap.
- So these are the four areas of the LESC Roadmap. The first is the educator ecosystem.
- There's an ask for LESC within it, but there's also an ask for PED to do some work to make sure that
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New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Sep 3rd, 2025
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- As we move forward, some considerations for the LESC to consider include our request.
- However, we met with staff at LESC and LFC and It did sound like there could be appetite for funding
- And we met with staff from LESC and LFC, did not recommend that the agency start with a...
- They could be LESC staff, depending on who really is the expert in that area.
- We at the department worked alongside the LESC to really create that bill and get it done.
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New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Dec 18th, 2025 at 09:13 am
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- In front of the LESC, and I just want to thank you all for the hard work that you put in as unpaid legislators
- But it has come up multiple times during the interim conversations with LESC.
- And our members are definitely looking forward and excited to work with you all, and LESC and LFC staff
- This will be my last LESC hearing in presenting.
- So again, compliments to the team that we get to work with with the LESC, but all of you that are making
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- apply to all legislative staff, DLAs, leadership staff, chief clerk staff, counsel, service, LFC, LESC
- may also flow directly to the Chief Clerk's offices, which Are nonpartisan by statute as are LFC, LESC
- positions, one for that reason, because I think we'd be creating a nightmare for you, for director of LFC, LESC
- It applies to all legislative staff, so it applies to council service staff, LFC, LESC, the chief clerks
- There is another working group that includes the directors of LFC and LESC, who are also part of the
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New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Nov 20th, 2025
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- We're going to be here tomorrow morning with LESC voting members for both LFC and LESC.
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New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Nov 19th, 2025
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- This study was initiated at... your request after the passage of House Memorial 43, which directed LESC
- To address these systemic gaps, LESC staff recommended establishing a statewide, Bilingual education
- At the end of your brief, we talked about the legislature should, and we actually mean by that is LESC
- Good afternoon, Chair Solos and members of the LESC. My name is Juliana Baca.
- Good afternoon, Chair Solos and members of LESC. My name is Sarai.
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- Representative Small said that during LFC that they were in due to evaluation of every subcommittee, LESC
- be that we'd need to put some language in, because I don't think LFC has the authority to evaluate LESC
- I know LESC pretty much does one every year of the director. Senator Trujillo. Thank you, Mr.
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- Jesse Chenvin from CNM and Annie Arbitant, whom we all know from LESC.
- Those of you who are members of the LESC may remember that I presented in October.
- A 2024 LESC report on teacher residency programs in New Mexico corroborated these findings.
- introduce the co-sponsor, Representative Janira Gorolla, and our technical expert, Mary Andrews from LESC
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teacher residency, Teacher Residency Act, public schools, teacher preparation, educator pipeline, teacher recruitment, teacher retention, student teachers, apprenticeship, co-teaching, mentor teachers, residency stipend, teacher salary, level one teacher, charter schools, school districts, New Mexico education, teacher workforce, principal stipend, cohort model
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- I see if you look over here further under the LESC bill analysis, let's see where is it at..."
- Also, in the LESC bill analysis on page 2 under substantive issues...
- Also, in the LESC bill analysis on page two under substantive issues, the second paragraph down, about
- And again, you know, it was online, the LESC meeting that we had in December.
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New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Sep 5th, 2025
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- as well as Kendall Chavez, a policy advisor on this topic in the Office of the Governor, and to the LESC
- federal funding and how that's going to affect the budgets in New Mexico and the budgets that the LESC
- Chairman, members of the committee, my name is Daniel and I cover public school finance for the LESC.
- As you all know, LESC is unique. Not just in New Mexico, but in the country.
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- And with me is Marie Andrews, LESC analyst. Thank you.
- And with me is Marie Andrews, LESC analyst. Thank you.
- This is an LESC bill, so I'm here as technical support.
- And this bill is an LESC-sponsored bill.
- Madam Chair, Representative, I would feel more comfortable if there was legislative reporting or LESC
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constitutional amendment, legislative sessions, veto override, New Mexico legislature, session length, legislative session, even-numbered years, New Mexico Constitution, student behavior, physical restraint, seclusion, public schools, training, de-escalation, student safety, behavior interventions, criminal offenses, peace officer, Victims of Crime Act, law enforcement
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New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 13th, 2026 at 05:31 pm
House Appropriations & Finance
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- Or are we going to tie this to the study and reporting that we receive from LESC? Mr.
- And the LESC analysis that gave the history of... ...the LESC analysis that gave the history of this
- Don't we want LESC? I know you'll be doing the report, or is that just a given? Mr.
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distance learning, virtual instruction, public education, student enrollment, school funding, education standards, pandemic education response, low-carbon construction, construction materials, rebate, environmental product declaration, EPD, embodied carbon, carbon intensity, greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonization, industrial incentives, clean manufacturing, cement, concrete