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 Subgrants have been awarded!

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.

Sub- grants have been awarded to the following LEAs:

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

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