Excerpt from Report on the New Mexico State Educational Institutions to the L General Education System of New Mexico
The Revenue Commission in concluding its work presents herewith a report of Professor William C. Bagley on the educational situation in New Mexico, and its state educational institutions.
Every legislature is confronted with the problem of providing for the constantly increasing needs of these institutions. This problem as now presented to the legislature may be said to be critical, but the demands of the institutions, as shown by the budget, and the difficulty of meeting these demands were never so great as at the present time.
It is very difficult under prevailing conditions for anyone in the state to fairly judge questions of institutional reorganization. Members of the legislature from Silver City, Las Cruces, El Rito, Socorro, Albuquerque, and Roswell are elected with the express or implied mandate of their constituents that one of their first duties is to see to it that they get their share of appropriations for the institutions located in their respective districts. For the institutions located in these seven towns there was appropriated for the last biennium the sum of $755,825.45, and for the same institutions the requests for appropriations for the next biennium amount to $2,327,022.82. It is, of course, out of the question that all of these requests should, even under favorable conditions, be granted. But it is true that most of these estimates submitted by the sponsors of the various institutions are not unreasonable if the institutions as now organized and located are to be properly provided for. To properly provide for them is, of course, quite impossible. With our other governmental burdens there is not enough taxable wealth in the state to do so. That this is a fact has already been clearly demonstrated.
Whether or not a reorganization of these schools can be effected which will insure a better return to the taxpayers, upon the investment they are making in their maintenance, is a question which has been perfunctorily discussed for many years. It has never been definitely and clearly investigated. No such investigation has ever before been seriously initiated. But there is a clear and incisive demand that the matter be vigorously and honestly examined into, so that the people and their representatives may know where and how we stand.
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