Minimum Standard for Educational Assistances in New Mexico

With the increasing need for a higher quality of education in the state of New Mexico I would hope that the state legislature would follow suit and provide guidelines to increase the skills levels and professional requirements of the staff that works with our children every day in the K-14 school system. This state needs minimum wage limits and minimum educational requirements for its educational assistances. These skilled instructional staff members are underpaid and undereducated because at present no one is attracted to a job which requires all the skills and none of the educational requirements or pay of any other skilled educational profession.

As a parent I want to see skilled professionals working with my child. I want to know that the state has thoroughly investigated every individual who works in a classroom with children. I want to know that the only thing on their mind is my child’s education and not where their next meal is coming from or how they plan to pay the rent this month. As a state we owe these individuals the same curtsey as any other professional who works with children. The following is a discussion draft of a bill that would set minimum educational levels and minimum pay for these individuals so that we can ensure professional staffing in our schools systems in the state of New Mexico.



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