Santa Fe, NM – In his disingenuous letter to the editor that ran on Sunday, February 8 in the Las Cruces Sun News, Sen. Lee Cotter states that because I voted against Senate Bill 207 (SB 207), I do not support a free, public education, and that I support “illegal” collection of fees by public schools.  As anyone who knows me can attest, this characterization cannot be further from the truth.  Some clarity and truth-telling about this bill is clearly needed:  this legislation would prevent public schools from charging and collecting any fees for elective courses.  Since it provides no appropriation with it, SB207 would force schools to either stop offering all courses with fees, such as culinary, art, band, engineering, etc., or to take money away from instruction in other non-elective courses to cover the increased costs.

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