ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Maybe this warm weather has you looking forward to summer vacation. Those typical plans changed for many families recently with a new rule – 180 days in the classroom for students statewide.  But those plans could be changing yet again because a judge just sided with more than half of our New Mexico school districts, deciding that rule is suspended, so to speak.  Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham was perhaps the biggest proponent o…

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Judge rules against 180 school day rule in New Mexico

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NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A judge sided with dozens of New Mexico school districts against the state's public education department over its new rule requiring 180 days of school. Many districts opposed the change, arguing it forced districts, especially in rural areas to meet five days a week instead of their already set four days. The New Mexico School Superintendents Association started this lawsuit last April gathering 55 school districts mainly in…

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District judge rules New Mexico schools are not required to follow 180 day rule

A state district court judge has ruled against the New Mexico Public Education Department on the requirement of 180 days of classroom learning.

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Judge strikes down 180-rule requirement by Public Education Department

"The PED lacks the authority to implement a rule mandating a minimum number of instructional days for public school districts and charter schools," the ruling states.

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Judge strikes down Public Education Department's 180-day rule

A district judge from Chaves County ruled Monday that the New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) exceeded its legal authority last year when it promulgated a rule mandating that all school districts within the state adopt a school calendar with…

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Judge from Chaves County rules that state’s 180-day rule for school is unlawful

A New Mexico district judge ruled Monday that the N.M. Public Education Department’s administrative rule ordering all public school districts to have 180 instructional days in a school year is invalid and unenforceable.
The administrative rule, issued in March of last year but held off by an earlier injunction from the court, would have also essentially eliminated the four-day school weeks used by many districts statewide, including Cobre Consol…

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By MARGARET O’HARA The Santa Fe New Mexican A state judge on Monday axed the New Mexico Public Education Department’s controversial “180-day rule.”  Fifth Judicial District Judge Dustin Hunter struck down the agency’s requirement for all public districts and charter schools in the state to include 180 instructional days in their calendar each year, finding the rule “does not align with the Legislature’s clear intention.” “The PED lacks the autho…

Judge rules against 180 school day rule in New Mexico

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