New Mexico Statutes Chapter 22. Public Schools § 22-15-2. Definitions

A. “division” or “bureau” means the instructional material bureau of the department;

B. “director” or “chief” means the chief of the bureau;

C. “instructional material” means school textbooks and other educational media that are used as the basis for instruction, including combinations of textbooks, learning kits, supplementary material and electronic media;

D. “multiple list” means a written list of those instructional materials approved by the department;

E. “membership” means the total enrollment of qualified students on the fortieth day of the school year entitled to the free use of instructional material pursuant to the Instructional Material Law;

F. “additional pupil” means a pupil in a school district's, state institution's or private school's current year's certified forty-day membership above the number certified in the school district's, state institution's or private school's prior year's forty-day membership;

G. “school district” includes state-chartered charter schools; and

H. “other classroom materials” means materials other than textbooks that are used to support direct instruction to students.