BLACK EDUCATION ADVISORY COUNCIL (HEAC) 2021-2022

Johnna Rocker-Clinton (Chair)

Dr. Stephanie Mack (Vice Chair)

Sandra Aaron (Secretary)

Hakim Bellamy

Romulous Charles

Leroy Copeland

Tiffany Feldman

Vickie Horne

Dr. Nancy Lopez

Dr. Monique Matute-Chavarria

Arlen Nelson

Dr. Robert Sims

Brandi Stone

Dr. Patricia Trujillo

Mercedes Turner

Joseph Ulibarri

Dr. Cynthia Wise

Statutory Compliance

This report fulfills the following statutory requirement:

22-2C-11. Statewide status report.

A. The department, in collaboration with the higher education department, shall submit an annual preschool through post-secondary statewide Hispanic education status report no later than November 15 to the governor and the legislature through the legislative education study committee. A copy shall be provided to the legislative library in the legislative council service.

B. The status report for public schools highlight Black student data and include:

(1) Ethnicity by grade by school;

(2) the number and type of bilingual and multicultural programs in each school district and charter school;

(3) student achievement by ethnicity at all grades measured by a statewide test or other measure of proficiency approved by the department;

(4) attendance and truancy for all grades by ethnicity;

(5) diploma seals and distinctions earned by ethnicity; and

(6) licensed school employees by ethnicity by school.

C. The status report shall include the following information by post-secondary educational institution, which may be compiled from data otherwise required to be submitted to the higher education department, and which is disaggregated by ethnicity and highlights Black student or faculty data:

(1) enrollment by institution and by main or branch campus, if applicable;

(2) student retention by class;

(3) student completion rates;

(4) degrees or certificates earned by ethnicity;

(5) faculty hired in tenure-track positions by ethnicity;

(6) adjunct faculty hired by ethnicity;

(7) number of tenured faculty by ethnicity;

(8) faculty or administration leadership positions by ethnicity.

You may access the Black Education Act with the following link: Chapter 22 - Public SchoolsNMOneSource.com

DATA REPORTING IN NEW MEXICO 2019- 2021

The data representations in this report compare Black students by race within their own category and compared with other subgroups. A subgroup generally refers to any group of students who share similar characteristics, such as gender identification, racial or ethnic identification, socioeconomic status, physical or learning disabilities, language abilities, or school-assigned classifications. The subgroups to which Hispanic students are compared in this report include Hispanic students, American Indian students, Asian students, Caucasian students, economically disadvantaged students, students with disabilities, and students designated as English learners (ELs) or English language learners (ELLs). The term Caucasian is used in the high school graduation cohort data in alignment with federal standards for the classification of data on race and ethnicity.

Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires states to annually measure the achievement of not less than 95 percent of all students in each subgroup of students, who are enrolled in public schools. ESSA requires the assessment of all students, including students with disabilities and English learners, in:

• Reading and/or language arts in grades 3-8 and once in high school;

• Mathematics in grades 3-8 and once in high school; and

• Science once in grades 3-5, once in grades 6-9, and once in grades 10-12

For the 2021-22 school year, students were assessed using the following and the data in this report is considered baseline data and therefore, is not compared to previous years:

1. NEW MEXICO ASSESSMENT OF SCIENCE READINESS (NM ASR) | GRADES 5, 8, 11 | SUMMATIVE

2. NEW MEXICO MEASURES OF STUDENT SUCCESS & ACHIEVEMENT (NM MSSA) | GRADES 3-8 | SUMMATIVE

3. DYNAMIC LEARNING MAPS (DLM) | GRADES 3-8, 11 ELA/MATH | GRADES 5, 8, 11 SCIENCE | FORMATIVE/INTERIM/SUMMATIVE

For the 2020-21 school year (SY), New Mexico received an accountability waiver from the US Department of Education. This waiver exempts New Mexico from reporting many pieces of accountability data, including achievement data, due to the challenges presented by the pandemic. Given the low participation on the Measures of Student Success and Achievement (MSSA), the PED did not produce school or district reports unless certain participation thresholds are met. This includes the assessments for science readiness (ASR) since no reports will be available to districts.

For the 2019-20 school year, due to the unprecedented circumstances brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and the closure of schools, the US Department of Education granted the PED a waiver to bypass assessment and accountability requirements under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Thus, the student achievement data within this report was not collected in school year 2019–2020. Student achievement data from 2018–2019 has been repeated.

At the time of this report, the New Mexico Higher Education Department did not collect data for the following:

(1) faculty hired in tenure-track positions by ethnicity;

(2) adjunct faculty hired by ethnicity;

(3) number of tenured faculty by ethnicity;

(4) faculty or administration leadership positions by ethnicity.

The Black Education Act Bureau is working collaboratively with the department to secure data for the year 20222023 and beyond.

New Mexico achievement data may be accessed here: https://webnew.ped.state.nm.us/bureaus/accountability/achievement-data/