{"id":27485,"date":"2011-03-19T01:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T07:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=27485"},"modified":"2011-03-19T01:19:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T07:19:02","slug":"legislature-oks-martinez%e2%80%99s-school-grading-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/03\/legislature-oks-martinez%e2%80%99s-school-grading-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislature OKs Martinez\u2019s school-grading bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11928\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11928 \" title=\"Roundhouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Roundhouse-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Roundhouse-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Roundhouse.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Roundhouse in Santa Fe (Photo by Peter St. Cyr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lawmakers gave final approval early this morning to Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Susana Martinez\u2019s<\/a> proposal to assign letter grades to schools based on performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis commonsense education measure will immediately make it easier for parents and communities to understand the performance of New Mexico\u2019s public schools,\u201d Martinez said in a news release. \u201cBy assigning a simple letter grade to our schools, we will have a clear idea of which ones are succeeding as well as those that need help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?chamber=S&amp;legtype=B&amp;legno=%20427&amp;year=11\" target=\"_blank\">The bill<\/a>, sponsored by Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SASBI\" target=\"_blank\">Vernon Asbill<\/a>, R-Carlsbad, and Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HROCH\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Roch<\/a>, R-Texico, was a key part of Martinez\u2019s education plan. This morning\u2019s vote in the House was 42-23 in favor of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo longer will parents have to try to decipher misleading performance reports,\u201d Roch said in a news release. \u201cInstead, they will have a clear view of where their child\u2019s school is performing great \u2013 and where it could use help.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers gave final approval early this morning to Gov. Susana Martinez\u2019s proposal to assign letter grades to schools based on performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[125,107],"class_list":["post-27485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-education","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}