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State policies that promote health, education, and strong families can help the early development and school readiness of America's youngest citizens. This profile highlights New Mexico's policy choices alongside other contextual data related to the well-being of young children.
State Highlights1
New Mexico's state legislature allocated $1 million in additional funding to The Voluntary Universal Home Visiting Program to expand the program and develop a plan for implementing it statewide. The Department of Health also applied to extend the IDEA Part C option for children through the start of the school year following their third birthday. The legislature added $20 million to the Medicaid/State Children's Health Insurance Program budget to increase the number of children covered and increased pre-kindergarten funding by 5 percent ($952,100), for a total of $19.8 available and total enrollment of over 4,900 children.
- Young children (under age 6)2: 158,457
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Data Notes and Sources
Last Updated: December 4, 2009
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- State Highlights are drawn from states' government and organization websites and reports. For more information, contact ITO@nccp.org.
- State data were calculated from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (the March supplement) of the Current Population Survey from 2007, 2008, and 2009, representing information from calendar years 2006, 2007, and 2008. NCCP averaged three years of data because of small sample sizes in less populated states. The national data were calculated from the 2009 data, representing information from the previous calendar year.
- National and state data were calculated from the 2008 American Community Survey.