Program Guidelines 2025

SEIP Program Guidelines for 2025

Download the SEIP Guidelines 2025 PDF

New for 2025!
1. Prior Program Operators
  1. Budget planning and amount will be based upon last summer's paid expenditures
  2. All internship programs must be 8 weeks in duration
  3. All internship opportunities must be 20 hours per week
  4. Paid internship hours above a total of 160 per student will not be reimbursed
  5. Opening and closing dates will remain flexible between May and September
  6. Internships must not begin while school remains in session; internships must be completed before school resumes in the fall semester
  7. It is a SUMMER internship program and internships cannot begin in or be extended into the school year
  8. Requests for budget changes for summer 2025 for continuing program operators are due by Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 5pm
  9. Approvals/revisions on final internship program budgets will be completed on April 30th
  10. IGA Template and Table of Approved Budgets will be submitted to NMPED Procurement on April 30th
  11. Requests for Payment (RfP)
    1. All program expenditures incurred for summer 2025 must be invoiced by Friday, October 31, 2025
    2. Invoices must be uniquely numbered and itemized by expenditure category
    3. Expenditures invoiced must have backup documentation that verifies the expenditure and amount
    4. Invoice(s) and Backup Documentation must be emailed to Marc Duske with a courtesy copy (CC:) to [email protected]
1. Non-Profit Organizations will NOT be eligible to participate as FA's for summer 2025
  1. Vendors interested in operating an internship program or programs will have an opportunity to do so resuming in summer 2026
  2. There may be an opportunity for a vendor to be awarded a grant to execute the entire initiative beginning in the summer of 2026
2. New County and Tribal Applicants
  1. Application is required including budget proposal
  2. Application is open to all currently non-participating tribal and county governments
  3. Application template will be provided upon request. Email: [email protected]
  4. Applications are due by Friday, April 25th

Introduction to the Community Learning Network and Jennifer Case Nevarez
1. Jennifer's work across the past three summers has been in telling stories about local communities participation in the initiative
2. Deploying a pre- and post-internship survey beginning summer 2025
  1. Both surveys should be allocated time to complete that is embedded into the required 8-week program syllabus
3. Questions on Documenting Summer 2025 with photographs or video?

Summer of 2025 - Program Guidelines
1. Exclusively NM State Legislative Funding
2. Eligible Operators
  1. Local Educational Agencies (LEA) (districts and state-authorized charter schools) are Ineligible to Become Fiscal Agents (FA)
    1. Fiscal Agents (FA) in summer 2025 will exclusively be Tribal, Pueblo, and County Governments
    2. FA's must perform outreach and establish partnership with LEAs
    3. LEAs can partner with FA's and can become Internship Sites
    4. Partnership with any and all intern sites must be approved by FA's
    5. FA's are not mandated to accept partnerships for intern sites
    6. Internship Site Coordinators are required and are not paid from program funds
  2. Next Legislative Session and the ask for SEIP Funding
    1. New information on strategy for multi-year funding above-the-line
3. Eligible Students
  1. Legal Working Age: 14-15 Year Old Students Require a Work Permit
  2. Satisfactory Academic Performance is ideal but not required
  3. At-Risk Students receive best consideration
    1. At-Risk are students identified by high school partners
    2. May not be easy to determine
    3. At-Risk of leaving high school prior to graduation is the concern
  4. First time internship program participants receive priority for enrollment over previous participants
  5. Internship opportunities must be coordinated to accept applications for students whose primary language is NOT English
    1. Prepare to have an Internship Coordinator who is bilingual (English/Spanish)
    2. If a youth presents who has primary language skills other than Spanish or English, please reach out to NM PED for coordination support
4. Internship Rigor
  1. Internships must provide Financial Literacy Training

1. 1. Internships must provide Career Exploration Activities
  2. Internships are encouraged to provide Digital Literacy Training
  3. Resources for these components are available upon request
  4. A program syllabus for the 8-week program is required and must be submitted to NM PED prior to full execution of the IGASSE
  5. Quantitative intern data will be captured and data analysis methods will be deployed beginning summer 2025 to determine the benefit to students beyond qualitative data and broader obvious benefits of program participation on youth and their families
2. Documentation
  1. Intern rosters must be submitted to NM PED
    1. Intern Rosters must include:
      1. Intern name
      2. Intern NOVA ID
      3. High School the intern attends
      4. School district intern is enrolled with
      5. Intern SSID (LEA-level unique identifying student number)
      6. Intern date of birth
  2. Some required data may be drafted from payroll database
  3. Undocumented students without a Social Security Number interested in participating should be directed to request an IRS-ITIN
  4. A Final Program Report is required after the completion of all intern activities; a SEIP Final Report template is available on the Summer Enrichment Internship Program website:
    1. https://web.ped.nm.gov/bureaus/college-and-career-readiness-bureau/connections-to-work/summer-enrichment-internship-program/

Contact:
Marc Duske, Special Projects Manager, New Mexico Public Education Department
College and Career Readiness Bureau
[email protected] (505) 490-7804