


Guide to Health Insurance Reform
The new health insurance reform law will lower costs, improve quality, and provide affordable coverage for New Mexicans. Learn more about it here.


Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems Grant Program
$250 million was included in competitive grants was provided for the Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems Program.
Office: Institute of Education Sciences
Agency: Department of Education
Purpose: To make competitive grants to States to enable them to design and develop statewide longitudinal data systems that use individual student data for reporting and improving student achievement, and to facilitate research to improve student achievement and
close achievement gaps.
Description: With these grants, states could increase the capacity of their data systems, provide teachers the information they need to tailor instruction to help each student improve, and give administrators the resources and information to effectively and efficiently manage their data systems.
Website: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/slds/
www.ed.gov/recovery
Phone: (202) 502-7300 (National Center for Education Statistics)