New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 6 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
Chapter 35 - INDIAN EDUCATION
Part 2 - IMPLEMENTING THE INDIAN EDUCATION ACT
Section 6.35.2.8 - INDIAN EDUCATION ACT PURPOSES

A. ensure equitable and culturally relevant learning environments, educational opportunities, and culturally relevant instructional materials for American Indian and Alaska Native students enrolled in public schools;

B. ensure maintenance of native languages;

C. provide for the study, development, and implementation of educational systems that positively affect the educational success of American Indian and Alaska Native students;

D. ensure that the department partners with Indian nations, tribes, and pueblos to increase tribal involvement and control over schools and the education of students located in tribal communities;

E. encourage cooperation among the educational leadership of Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and the Navajo Nation to address the unique issues of educating students in Navajo communities that arise due to the location of the Navajo Nation in those states;

F. provide the means for a formal government-to-government relationship between the state and Indian nations, tribes, and pueblos in New Mexico and the development of relationships with the education division of the bureau of Indian education and other entities that serve American Indian and Alaska Native students;

G. provide the means for a relationship between the state and urban American Indian and Alaska Native community members in New Mexico to participate in initiatives and educational decisions related to American Indian and Alaska Native students residing in urban areas;

H. ensure that parents, tribal departments of education, community-based organizations, the department, universities, and tribal, state, and local policymakers work together to find ways to improve educational opportunities for American Indian and Alaska Native students;

I. ensure that Indian nations, tribes, and pueblos are notified of all curricula development for their approval and support;

J. encourage an agreement regarding the alignment of the bureau of Indian education and state assessment programs so that comparable information is provided to parents and Indian nations, tribes, and pueblos; and

K. encourage and foster parental involvement in the education of American Indian and Alaska Native students.