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In this March 5 photo, Indiana Harvey, left, and Jaylyn Sanchez pick up toys before going inside. They are in a prekindergarten class at Atalaya Elementary School in Santa Fe.
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SANTA FE A proposal to amend the state Constitution to tap more heavily into New Mexico’s largest permanent fund ran into bipartisan opposition Thursday in a critical Senate committee.
The legislation is still alive, but two Democratic senators suggested it will require revisions to have a chance at passage.
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The proposal, House Joint Resolution 1, has passed the House five years in a row, including last month.
It would deliver an extra $170 million a year for early childhood education by boosting the annual distribution from the Land Grant Permanent Fund by 1 percentage point, from 5% to 6%.
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NM House OKs Use Of Land Grant Fund For Early Education
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Profile: House Appropriations & Finance Committee Chair; Legislative Finance Committee Vice Chair Patty Lundstrom - 6:11 am
Rep. Patty Lundstrom, D-Gallup, takes the oath of office on the House floor on the first day of the 2021 legislative session. Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican
By DANIEL J. CHACÓN
An overnight success? Hardly. Her first venture failed miserably.
“We were broke at the end of it,” the Gallup Democrat, now 60, recalled in a recent interview. “We had to close up shop two weeks early.”
But the experience operating a concession stand at the government-owned swimming pool in the village of Milan, where she grew up proved valuable for the ambitious self-starter. Looking back, she said it offered lessons that helped shape her.