New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 6 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
Chapter 19 - PUBLIC SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY
Part 4 - ACCREDITATION PROCEDURES
Section 6.19.4.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Accreditation status" means either approval or disapproval by the secretary of the adequacy and functionality of an educational program. Public schools other than locally chartered charter schools shall be designated with the annual accreditation status of their LEA unless otherwise determined by the secretary.

B. "Accrediting entity" means an organization capable of evaluating the quality of an educational program pursuant to this rule.

C. "Attendance improvement plan" means a tiered, data-informed system for public schools and school districts to identify students who are chronically or excessively absent and to aid public schools in developing whole-school prevention strategies and targeted interventions, as defined in Section 22-12A-2 NMSA 1978.

D. "Bureau of Indian education school" or "BIE school" means a school that is funded by the bureau of Indian education, located in New Mexico, provides instruction for first through twelfth grades, and is not sectarian or denominational, and includes schools that are tribally controlled.

E. "Days" means, unless otherwise specified in a provision in this rule or applicable statute, business days when the period referenced is 10 days or less, and calendar days when the period referenced is 11 days or more. In computing the number of days, exclude the day of the event that triggers the period, and include the last day of the period. If the last day is a day when the department is closed, the period continues to run until the end of the next business day that the department is not closed. Whenever a person or entity shall act under this rule within a prescribed period after service of a notice or paper upon the person or entity, and the notice or paper is served by mail or courier service, three calendar days are added to the prescribed period.

F. "Educational program" means a program that provides for the education of school-age persons in state institutions, public, nonpublic, or BIE schools.

G. "Evidence-based practices" means activities, strategies, and interventions informed and supported by rigorous research that demonstrate consistent, positive impacts on student outcomes, and may include practices that are supported by strong, moderate, promising, or rationale-demonstrating evidence.

H. "Historically defined Indian-impacted" means a school district or a charter school that:

I. "Local Education Agency" or "LEA" means a school district or state-chartered charter school.

J. "Nonpublic school or private school" means a school, other than a home school, that offers programs of instruction and is not under the control, supervision, or management of a local school board or a charter school governing body.

K. "School index score" means the total score a school earns on all required measures as defined by the department according to the state's system for annual meaningful differentiation detailed in the state's ESSA plan.

L. "Secretary" means the secretary of the department.

M. "State accreditation" means approval by the secretary of an educational program's adequacy of student outcomes and activities, organizational effectiveness, staff preparation, and other educational matters, as determined by the department. State accreditation of a nonpublic or BIE school means recognition by the department that the school meets standards set by an accrediting entity recognized by the department and has submitted required reports to the department.

N. "State institution" means any state agency except the New Mexico military institute that is responsible for educating resident school-age persons, including the New Mexico school for the blind and visually impaired and the New Mexico school for the deaf.