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- year we have an historic consensus between the executive budget, the public education budget, and LESC
- And in the LESC study that was done last year, they did confirm that PED would get up to a $30 million
- It also recommended from the LESC and the executive that this would be including a...
- The LESC and the executive said that this would be including a non-recurring general appropriation.
Keywords:
ecological monitoring, sustainability, tribal engagement, education, research funding, graduate scholarship, higher education funding, New Mexico, appropriation, financial aid, out-of-school programming, education funding, youth programs, affordability, nonprofit organizations, defibrillators, public schools, health and safety, emergency response, school elections
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New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study May 29th, 2025
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- Good morning, everybody, and welcome back to the interim sessions with the LESC.
- But your staff here at LESC is going to be tracking this throughout the interim.
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- House Memorial 43 simply asks the LESC and PED to take a deep dive into these methodologies to examine
- Within the analysis, it was noted that a lot of this study and this framework is work that LESC currently
- already does, so it will be assumed in. ...is work that LESC currently already does.
Keywords:
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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- As we pointed out last week, there are different pots of money in our LESC and LFC proposals towards
- Madam Chair, Madam Chair, Representative Vincent, you'll see in the LESC analysis of this particular
- So when Based on some of your other findings or studies with the LESC, when do we usually start seeing
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New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Sep 3rd, 2025
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- Director here for LESC.
- Behind me is the illustrious LESC staff: Deputy Director Jessica Hathaway, Administrator Alonzo Baca,
- We appreciate the LESC members of the committee for taking the time to come out to this part of the state
- This was presented in the Legislative Education Study Committee (LESC) in December of 2024 in Apollo.
- If you ask most principals what LESC stands for or LAFC stands for, most of them probably wouldn't know
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New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services May 20th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- looking at our calendar versus what's already planned, still impressed for Las Vegas, but there is an LESC
- be different places, facilities, so I think it's still manageable, but just aware that there is an LESC
- And Madam Chair, and also, I'm going to bring the same subject up at the LESC meeting because it's related
- Um, I believe that LESC will have a work group on AI in education this interim through the passage of
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New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Apr 30th, 2026
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- And they actually, in that list of requests to the court to include PED, LESC staff, institutions of
- We truly appreciate our partnership with Jessica and John and LESC.
- Chair, and I want to thank also LESC for helping us all with this information, research data.
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New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Sep 10th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
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- this is a little bit of a repeat of a question I asked before, but we didn't have this report in the LESC
- as Kendall Chavez, who is a policy advisor on this topic in the Office of the Governor, and to the LESC
- The second question is a follow-up to a question I asked at this LESC meeting, and I'm asking it.
- Because of the discussion this morning on ethnic studies, at the LESC meeting, I brought up that sometimes
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New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Dec 17th, 2025 at 09:20 am
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New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 14th, 2026 at 10:04 am
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair, Madam Chair, would you, when we look at how much we spend for LFC and LESC, what is your estimate
- As a Chair and as a member of LESC, seeing what LESC can do as far as in-depth analysis, getting people
Summary:
During the legislative meeting, House Bill 287 was discussed, which proposes the establishment of a permanent Health and Human Services Committee to oversee the state's $14.4 billion expenditure in this area. An amendment to the bill was adopted, which clarified funding and operational details. Public comments were solicited, but no one spoke in opposition. The committee ultimately voted, with some members expressing concerns about budget implications, but the motion to pass the bill as amended was made and seconded, with several members opposing it.
House Bill 371 was also addressed, which focuses on creating an Acequia Infrastructure Fund to support land grant and Acequia communities. The bill aims to provide a financial mechanism for these communities to access funds for infrastructure projects without relying on capital outlay requests. The committee discussed the bill's implications, potential funding sources, and the need for further amendments regarding representation and oversight. A motion to pass the bill was made, with some opposition noted, particularly regarding the lack of specificity in the bill's provisions.
Lastly, Senate Bill 143 was presented, which seeks to raise the caps on inspection fees under the Egg Grading Act, among other agricultural regulations. Supportive testimony was provided by representatives from agricultural organizations, emphasizing the need for updated fee structures. The committee engaged in discussions about the bill's implications for consumers and the agricultural sector, ultimately moving towards a vote to pass the bill.
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- And with me is Mary Andrews with LESC. Good morning, Mr. Chair, members of the committee.
- school board members, superintendents, administrators, teachers, parents, and advocates, as well as LESC
- We thank Representative Garrola, the many stakeholders who contributed to this work, and the LESC for
Keywords:
graduate scholarship, higher education funding, New Mexico, appropriation, financial aid, education, documentary, historical figure, Padre Antonio Jose Martinez, Northern New Mexico State School, SB179, Senate Bill 179, UNM, University of New Mexico, medical Spanish, Spanish-language curriculum, health sciences, health professions education, language access, bilingual healthcare
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New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee May 28th, 2025
Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee
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- John Senna, your staff director at LESC.
- And so in September, the plaintiffs filed a motion that actually asked LESC and its staff to, to lead
- primarily have played that out, and the court just ruled a couple of weeks ago that um rather than LESC
- LESC meets tomorrow and Friday morning about that, about that motion.
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- To literally replicate what LFC already does, what the LESC already does. And others.
- I would love to hear from LESC to see what they found.
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- The advisory on LESC will be Senators Pope, Figueroa, Charlie, Thornton, Boone, Grantley, Nava, and Lopez
- OK, also, let's go to LESC and water and let's appoint Chairman Small as advisory to those two.
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New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Government, Elections And Indian Affairs Feb 13th, 2026 at 08:39 am
House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs
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New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee Jul 2nd, 2025
Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair, a lot of the presentation that you're going to see today is something that you all saw at LESC
- Chair, as you saw last week at LESC, these are the funds that were impounded just this week.
- She's our Deputy Director at LESC, and she's been on the research. Mr.
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New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Indian Affairs Jul 17th, 2025
House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- piece I'll say before I turn it over to you all for questions or comments is that in asking for the LESC
- And so we're glad to hear that the LESC is interested in being involved on a voluntary basis.
- Well, I'm glad LESC is helping, and we know Gwen Waterman went to the former LESC directors now. at LANL
- These interrelated issues highlight the need for the state to engage local experts, including LESC, LFC
- I sit on LESC. I sit on the House Education.
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- analysis, as I did not reference it in my analysis of the bill, but it was picked up by our LSC and our LESC
- Chair, Representative, the $3 million in the LESC recommendation is the same. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
- Chair, representative the 3 million in the LESC recommendation is the same. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Keywords:
educational retirement, annuity adjustments, cost of living, non-compounding payments, retirement benefits, STEM funding, education, innovation, public education, New Mexico, nominating committees, boards of regents, student representation, political party registration, New Mexico constitution, special education, office of special education, deputy secretary, public education department, IEP
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New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Jun 25th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh welcome to the LESC. I appreciate Roswell, uh, Agreeing to host us this morning.
- And I strongly recommend that the LESC come down here at least once a month.
- like to thank the, the staff that has helped put this together, our Rosa School staff, as well as the LESC