This rule provides for the recognition of high-performing schools and schools that have exited categories of improvement or intervention, and for the designation of schools needing improvement or intervention. This rule complies with requirements for statewide accountability systems based on challenging academic standards for language arts and mathematics and for school improvement designations and actions of the department as detailed by the state's system of annual meaningful differentiation and by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
N.M. Admin. Code § 6.19.8.6