New Mexico HM 33: GIFTED EDUCATION PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS

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A MEMORIAL
REQUESTING THE PUBLIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT TO STUDY AND
REPORT TO THE LEGISLATIVE EDUCATION STUDY COMMITTEE ITS
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR GIFTED EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND SERVICES.
WHEREAS, gifted education identification practices
across New Mexico are inconsistent, with variable effects on
equity of participation and recommended use of universal
screening with local norms; and
WHEREAS, curriculum services and delivery models do not
necessarily follow accepted standards or individualize for
the range of student needs; and
WHEREAS, gifted education programming and services need
outcomes and evaluation; and
WHEREAS, technical guidance needs to be updated to
reflect best practices; and
WHEREAS, recent public education department statistics
found that access to gifted education and proportionality of
service provision across New Mexico are grossly inequitable,
with a range of six thousand two hundred eleven to twenty-
three thousand eight hundred one students missing from
services;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the public
education department be requested to study and report to the

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legislative education study committee its recommendations for
gifted education programs and services; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following areas be
studied:
A. the equity of participation in gifted education
for students across racial, language, socioeconomic, gender
and geographic groups;
B. the equity with which students in different
racial, language, socioeconomic, gender and geographic groups
are developing advanced performance;
C. the extent to which schools use effective
research-based practices such as acceleration, grouping,
schoolwide enrichment and inquiry-based curricula; and
D. the potential costs and benefits of
implementing universal screening using local norms and
leveraging existing achievement or additional ability
measures; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the public education
department report its findings, conclusions and
recommendations for gifted education programs and services to
the legislative education study committee by October 1, 2022;
and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
transmitted to the secretary of public education and the chair
of the legislative education study committee.