Section 22-15B-1 – Statewide educational technology opportunity program; findings and purpose.

A. The legislature finds that: (1) local school districts need increased access to information technologies, extensive professional development and sustained network support to use technology effectively; (2) the technological needs of New Mexico’s individual school children and classrooms are best defined by the teachers and principals who work with them on a day-to-day basis; (3) […]

Section 22-15B-2 – Educational technology opportunity program; duties of the state department of public education [public education department].

A. The state department of public education [public education department] shall contract with a nonprofit corporation to administer the statewide educational technology opportunity program. The department shall select a contractor that has a program in place to build and rehabilitate computers for New Mexico classrooms using a combination of donated, surplus and purchased equipment. In […]