The following rule is promulgated to assist New Mexico public agencies in appropriately identifying and providing educational services for children with disabilities. The purposes of this rule are to ensure that all children with disabilities have available a free appropriate public education which includes special education and related services to meet their unique needs; to ensure that the rights of children with disabilities and their parents are protected; to assist public agencies to provide for the education of all children with disabilities; and to evaluate and ensure the effectiveness of efforts to educate those children.
N.M. Admin. Code § 6.31.2.6