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Central Consolidated recommends adding financial literacy and elective choices to meet HB 171 changes
Summary
Instructional staff recommended one locally determined credit in financial literacy and a second elective choice to implement House Bill 171 changes to graduation requirements for students entering 9th grade in 2025–26.
Roxanne Lee, instructional coordinator for secondary schools, told the board the district supports the intent of House Bill 171 to strengthen New Mexico high‑school graduation requirements and recommends two locally determined units to implement the law locally.
Lee summarized HB 171 as maintaining the 24‑unit diploma requirement while increasing units in core academic areas, requiring development of graduation profiles, allowing career technical education and work‑based learning to count toward core requirements, and giving districts local discretion to set two units. The bill takes effect for students entering ninth grade in the 2025–26 school year, Lee said.
Central Consolidated’s recommendation is that one of the two local units be dedicated to financial literacy and that the second be a menu of choice options tailored to student interests, including career and technical courses. Lee said district secondary principals and counselors support the proposal and that a memo with a chart listing possible course options was provided to the board.
Board members asked about how Navajo and Spanish are listed under foreign language requirements; Lee and other administrators said the state lists world languages under the foreign‑language requirement and that locally recognized native languages could be accommodated when students pursue postsecondary language requirements.
The item was presented for board consideration; no formal board vote was recorded in the work session.
