This text of New Mexico § 22-2F-2 (Definitions) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering New Mexico primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
As used in the School Support and Accountability Act: A. "adjusted cohort graduation rate" means the graduation rate of first-time ninth grade students with a diploma of excellence in a particular school year adjusted by adding any students who transfer into the cohort after the ninth grade and subtracting any students who transfer out, emigrate to another country or die; B. "chronic absenteeism" means the percentage of students missing ten percent or more of the school year for any reason, including excused absences, unexcused absences and out-of-school suspensions; C. "college, career and civic readiness" includes the completion of a college-ready course of study; the completion of a high-quality career technical education program; the completion of advanced courses such as advanced plac
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As used in the School Support and Accountability Act: A. "adjusted cohort graduation rate" means the graduation rate of first-time ninth grade students with a diploma of excellence in a particular school year adjusted by adding any students who transfer into the cohort after the ninth grade and subtracting any students who transfer out, emigrate to another country or die; B. "chronic absenteeism" means the percentage of students missing ten percent or more of the school year for any reason, including excused absences, unexcused absences and out-of-school suspensions; C. "college, career and civic readiness" includes the completion of a college-ready course of study; the completion of a high-quality career technical education program; the completion of advanced courses such as advanced placement, international baccalaureate or dual credit; a seal of bilingualism-biliteracy on the student's diploma of excellence; demonstrating competency for college readiness or career certification; or the completion of a work-based learning experience; and for all students, includes the completion of a service-based learning experience, participation in a civic engagement experience or participation in a college or career exploration experience; D. "comprehensive support" means support for a school that performs at or below the support identification threshold, or has an adjusted cohort graduation rate of less than sixty-six and two-thirds percent, or fails to exit targeted support status after a number of years determined by the department; E. "educational climate" means the percentage of school stakeholders who report that the school provides an appropriate climate for learning in the domains of student and staff engagement, social-emotional and physical safety and a school environment conducive to teaching and learning; F. "English language proficiency" means the ability of students to use academic English to make and communicate meaning in spoken and written contexts in an assessment determined by the department; G. "local school board" includes the governing body of a charter school; H. "more rigorous intervention" means an intervention plan for a school that fails to exit comprehensive support status after a number of years determined by the department; I. "on track to graduate" means data on each individual student that show the student's graduation status and potential predictors of dropout, such as student attendance, behavior, grades and test scores; J. "opportunity to learn standards" means a comprehensive view of the context in which learning takes place, including curriculum and instruction, educational resources and school staff competency; K. "school stakeholders" means students, parents, other family members, teachers, school staff and community partners who are part of a school's immediate environment; L. "student growth" means a measure, either norm-referenced to students with similar prior test scores or criterion-referenced to a specific standard, of students' academic progress within a specified time period; M. "student proficiency" means a measure demonstrating students' grade level mastery of the knowledge and skills determined by the New Mexico standards-based assessments; N. "support identification threshold" means a threshold set by the department using the metrics in the school support and accountability system to identify the lowest performing five percent of schools in the state receiving Title 1 funds; O. "system" means the school support and accountability system; P. "targeted support" means support for a school in which at least one subgroup of students, but not the entire school, performs at or below the support identification threshold; and Q. "traditional support" means a school that is not designated for targeted support or comprehensive support or has exited more rigorous intervention status by surpassing the support identification threshold.