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Joined: Oct 2008
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Is there anyone on here besides me that's in New Mexico?
Shari
Mom to DS 10, DS 11, DS 13
Ability doesn't make us, Choices do!
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Yes, I am. Down in Roswell. You must be super-mom to have 6 kiddos so close in age! I wake up tired with just 4.
The big "regional" issue is the funding formula legislation HB331. This would take gifted out from under the Special Education umbrella, and while it loosely requires gifted services, there will be no additional funding for services. No longer would gifted students' rights be protected under a legally-binding IEP. The EPSS is the proposed mechanism that parents/community has to review and have a say in the district's gifted services & staffing (I have zero involvement in that now that I'm sure it would never work).
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I went to a meeting last night in Rio Rancho and I am totally confused. I thought AAGTS is trying to protect the gifted. On their website as of today it states:
HB331 is the new bill: it has now moved from the House Education Committee to the House Appropriations and Finance Committee.
You can track its progress via the bill finder on the NM Legislature website.
(1/26/09) Here is a draft (page1, page2, page3) of Section 22-13-1.8 of the imminent bill. It is based on the joint NMAG/AAGTS language we submitted and provides for a student specific gifted education plan; the changes.
If I am reading this correctly then HB331 is based on AAGTS language.
So What's up
Dave
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Hi DaveGuy....
HB331 is in commitee right now, it hasn't been passed yet. If it does make it all the way through, it should improve GT education in this state. Up until now, we had basically nothing.
Based on my experience, the school your child is enrolled in in this state makes all of the difference.
Shari
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No-I disagree, Shari. We had gifted under the Special Education umbrella which is huge--we have legal recourse if the needs of our children are not being met. We even had funding above and beyond the unit rate for gifted designation (although the districts could put that money in a big pot and never direct any of it toward gifted).
Really what is happening is that the funding formula bill (331) will increase the unit rate (money schools get for each student). The big education lobby--teachers, principals--want more money (who doesn't?), so of course it's been pushed hard. We have written legislators, attended LESC meetings, but that increase in funding is a strong intoxicant. Albq Assoc met with Mimi Stewart (or whatever the legislators' name is that sponsored the bill) several times. I guess they thought that adding a "Gifted Education Plan" (that doesn't not have the legal force of an IEP)would satisfy us.
I'm tired of it all. HB 331 is a step backward for gifted education in the State of NM. It will increase monies (but our state has such a big deficit that it will not get funded this year or next probably).
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