Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant (CLSD)

Project Overview

The New Mexico Public Education Department partners with educators, communities, and families to support evidence based literacy teaching across New Mexico schools. In taking active steps toward the realization of the NM structured literacy initiative statewide, the New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) applied and was awarded a $60 million Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant (CLSD) from the U.S. Department of Education in September 2024. The state will award approximately $11.4 million to New Mexico communities annually to support local literacy efforts, with the remaining funds devoted to statewide technical assistance to support local grantees as they provide highly qualified personnel (district literacy coordinators, literacy coaches) and high quality instructional materials.

The NMPED CLSD project, in collaboration with the Early Childhood Education and Care Department and the Department of Higher Education, aims to improve the pre-literacy skills of children under age five and increase the percentage of elementary, middle, and high-school students who meet the state’s language and literacy proficiency standards. The project’s overall objective is to strengthen the infrastructure of each subgrantee to successfully implement structured literacy in schools. The project will engage in activities that seek to achieve five objectives to meet these goals:

The project’s overall aim is to strengthen the infrastructure of each subgrantee to successfully implement structured literacy in schools through the use of HQIM, effective coaching and instruction in an aligned district literacy system. An aligned literacy system will support high-quality teaching through explicit and systematic instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and writing; accelerate reading proficiency; and build strong foundations in language and literacy.

CLSD Literacy Systems Development Subgrantees

NMPED awarded four-year Comprehensive Literacy Development sub-grants. This program will provide a District Literacy Coordinator to support comprehensive literacy development K-12. The grant also funds coaching support for K-12 teachers as well as professional development.

2025 Cohort

• Deming Public Schools
• House Municipal Schools
• Jemez Valley Public Schools
• Mountainair Public Schools
• Las Vegas City Public Schools
• Pojoaque Valley Public Schools
• Rio Grande Academy of Fine Arts
• Santa Rosa Consolidated Schools
• Silver Consolidated Schools
• Springer Municipal Schools
• Taos Municipal Schools
• Tularosa Municipal Schools

2026 Cohort

• Albuquerque Public Schools
  • West Mesa HS
  • Jimmy Carter MS
  • John Adams MS
  • Tres Volcanes K-8
  • Alamosa Elementary
  • Chaparral Elementary
  • Lavaland Elementary
  • Maryann Binford Elementary
  • Painted Sky Elementary
  • S.R. Marmon Elementary
• Bernalillo Public Schools
• Bloomfield Schools
• Christine Duncan Heritage academy
• Dulce Independent Schools
• Las Cruces Public Schools
  • Booker T. Washington Elementary
  • Sunrise Elementary
  • Mac Arthur Elementary
  • Valley View Elementary
  • Lynn MS
  • Picacho MS
  • Organ HS
• Mesa Vista Consolidated Schools
• San Diego Riverside Charter School
• Santa Fe Public Schools
  • El Camino Real Academy
  • White Tigers Elementary School
  • Ortiz MS
  • Capital HS

High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM) Sub-grant Awards

NMPED has awarded $7,410,105.50 in CLSD subgrants to 16 LEAs to purchase English/Language Arts high quality instructional materials, supplemental materials and professional development. Each LEA will use these funds to purchase core materials for grade bands missing materials, update core materials or purchase supplemental materials. These purchases will be completed this school year so that materials may be implemented in the 2025-2026 school year. Each grant also supports professional development by the materials vendor to ensure that all teachers are prepared to use the materials.

Awardees:

• Alamogordo Public Schools
• Belen Consolidated Schools
• Bernalillo Public Schools
• Cimarron Public Schools
• Farmington Municipal Schools
• Jemez Valley Public Schools
• Las Cruces Public Schools
• Los Lunas Public Schools
• Mountainair Public Schools
• Rio Grande Academy of Fine Arts
• Santa Fe Public Schools
• Siembra Leadership High School
• Silver Consolidated Schools
• Springer Municipal Schools
• Truth or Consequences Municipal Schools
• Tularosa Municipal Schools

CLSD Partnership with the Early Childhood Education and Care Department (ECECD)

CLSD is partnering with ECECD to support early education by offering grants for evidence-based high quality instructional materials (HQIM) to families and care givers, as well as community and school based PreK programs. In SY 25/26 subgrants were awarded to 335 NM preschools and 23 birth – 3 year old home visitors. 11,550 literacy backpacks were provided to preschoolers and 3965 literacy kits were provided to home visitors. Additional subgrant will be awarded through this program in SY 26/27.