New Mexico Statutes Annotated 1978 (NMSA) Section 22-8B-9.1 requires all public chartering authorities to establish a framework that clearly sets forth the academic and operational performance indicators and performance targets that guide the chartering authority’s evaluation of each charter school.
In October, 2023, after more than a year reviewing national best practices in charter school authorizing, the PEC adopted a new performance framework. The final version of the framework was approved by the PEC on May 17, 2024.
New Mexico Charter School Performance Framework
Charter school contracts that begin July 1, 2024, or after contain the performance framework linked above. Contracts that began in 2023 and before contain different performance frameworks that are linked below in the Archived Performance Frameworks section. Each school’s contract, linked on the State Charter School Contracts and Annual Reports page, includes a performance framework.
Supporting Documents for THE Performance Framework:
- Business Rules (approved May 17, 2024)
- Annual Compliance Requirement for Indicator 3.C (approved May 17, 2024)
- Annual Governing Board Assurances (approved May 17, 2024)
- Reporting templates for academic options 1.A.2. and 1.B.2.
- Reporting templates for academic options 1.A.3. and 1.B.3.
School districts that authorize charter schools have their own performance frameworks. (See the Authorizer column in the NM Charter School Directory to determine whether a school is PEC-authorized or district-authorized.)
Student outcome data used to evaluate schools on the academic performance framework is available on the NM Vistas website.
Previous versions of the Performance Framework:
- 2019 Performance Framework: adopted by the PEC in 2019; included in contracts of schools that begin prior to July 1, 2022.
- 2022 Performance Framework: slightly modified version of the 2019 Performance Framework, adopted by the PEC in 2022; included in contracts of schools that begin July 1, 2022, or July 1, 2023.
- Archived PEC Charter Performance Review and Accountability System 2018
- Archived Academic Performance Framework (pre-2018)
- Archived Organizational Performance Framework (pre-2018)