The 2025 New Mexico Legislative session has adjourned. Join Amanda for a conversation with Matt Pahl, Executive Director of Public Charter Schools of New Mexico and Dominica Chavez, NewMexicoKidsCAN’s own Advocacy Manager. Together the three discuss this year’s legislative session and how education was addressed, or not addressed for that matter. Tune in to hear the highs, the lows, and everything in between! 

Read NewMexicoKidsCAN’s Post Legislative Session Press Release: 

https://mailchi.mp/818dec20094d/press-statement-2025nmleg-sb242-tabled-14192072?e=d642e5b038

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Sign up for the New Mexico Summer Reading Challenge New Mexico's Summer Reading Program is an innovative free program set to empower students from incoming kindergarteners to outgoing eighth graders with focused reading instruction in small groups with trained literacy instructors.

Sign up here: https://nmsummerreading.org/

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Interested in learning more about the "Honesty Gap" - which is the difference in state reported proficiencies and proficiency rates on NAEP? Check out the analysis by the Collaborative for Student Success:

https://forstudentsuccess.org/latest-honesty-gap-analysis-shows-parents-continue-to-be-misled-about-student-academic-performance/

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WE NEED QUESTIONS! Have a question about education in New Mexico? We’d love to answer it in our next episode. Submit a question for us to answer on the podcast here: bit.ly/AskNMRising

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