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A strong majority of the New Mexico electorate greenlit bonds for education infrastructure in Tuesday鈥檚 election, according to posted Wednesday by the New Mexico Secretary of State’s office.

Sixty-five percent of voters, or 522,057 people, chose “yes” for Bond Measure C, one of three statewide bond propositions that passed this year. A record-breaking number of people cast ballots across New Mexico in 2020.

The education-related measure will channel roughly $156.3 in capital improvement funding to public higher education institutions, tribal schools and schools for the visually and hearing-impaired.

Lawmakers have already how the money will be spent, including $5.3 million for dining hall construction at the state-run New Mexico School for the Deaf and $1.4 million for a science building at Navajo Technical University, the country鈥檚 largest tribal college in the country, among other projects.

Two years ago, New Mexico voters also easily approved three other education-related bond measures that provided $150 million for improvements at state colleges, tribal schools and municipal libraries; new school buses and air conditioning for existing buses; and new books, electronics and broadband upgrades for K-12 public schools.

That same year, a judge that the state was failing its children by not providing adequate public schools funding. Advocates hailed the decision 鈥渁s a ‘landmark’ ruling that could have implications for underfunded education systems around the country,鈥� HuffPost reported.

In New Mexico, one in four kids live in poverty, according to a from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. An overwhelming 76 percent of fourth-graders in the state lack reading proficiency and 79 percent of eighth-graders aren’t proficient in math 鈥� numbers that are 10 to 12 percentage points higher than the national average and which have barely improved over the last decade.

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