As used in the Grow Your Own Teachers Act:
A. "department" means the higher education department;
B. "educational assistant" means a United States citizen and resident of New Mexico who has worked as an educational assistant in a public school for at least two years and is in good standing with the school district and who is enrolled in or accepted by an undergraduate teacher preparation program at a regionally accredited public post-secondary educational institution in New Mexico;
C. "public school" includes constitutional special schools and state institutions and state agencies that educate children and employ educational assistants; and
D. "teacher preparation program" means a program that has been formally approved as meeting the requirements of the public education department and that leads to level one teacher licensure, including a program in a two-year post-secondary educational institution that meets the requirements for a teacher education transfer module established pursuant to Subsection C of Section 21-1B-4 NMSA 1978.
History: Laws 2019, ch. 230, § 2.
ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2019, ch. 230 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective June 14, 2019, 90 days after the adjournment of the legislature.