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  • Rep. David Sharpe, Chair
  • Rep. Albert Pearce, Vice Chair
  • Rep. Kathryn Webb, Ranking Member
  • Rep. Scott Beck
  • Rep. Peter Conlon, Clerk
  • Rep. Lawrence Cupoli
  • Rep. Dylan Giambatista
  • Rep. Ben W. Joseph
  • Rep. Emily Long
  • Rep. Christopher Mattos
  • Rep. Alice Miller

House Committee on Education

 

AGENDA

 

Room 32

January 16, 2018 - January 19, 2018

Last Updated 5/8/2018 1:04 PM

 

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

10:00 AM                   FLOOR

 

After the floor                   Act 77

   Report on Dual Enrollment

 

Heather Bouchey, Deputy Secretary, Ph.D., Agency of Education

 

12:00 PM                   Lunch and Caucuses

 

2:30 PM                   Career and Technical Education

     Joint meeting with House Commerce in room 11

 

Rebecca Holcombe, Secretary, Ed.D., Agency of Education

Heather Bouchey, Deputy Secretary, Ph.D., Agency of Education

Oscar Aliaga, Ph.D., Career Pathways Coordinator, Agency of Education

Jay Ramsey, Director, Career and Technical Education, Agency of Education

 

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

9:00 AM                   Independent Schools

Jo-Anne Unruh, Ph.D., Member, Independent Schools Study Committee

 

10:30 AM                   Education Finance

Jess DeCarolis, Division Director, Personalization and Flexible Pathways, Agency of Education

 

11:00 AM                   H. 557 - An act relating to labor relations for teachers and administrators

 

 

Rep. Martin LaLonde, Sponsor of Bill

 

11:30 AM                   H. 621 - An act relating to labor relations for teachers and administrators

Rep. Kurt Wright, Sponsor of Bill

 

1:00 PM                   FLOOR

 

After the floor                   H. 244 - An act relating to environmental health standards for Vermont schools

Rep. Maida Townsend, Sponsor of Bill

 

Next                   H. 541 - An act relating to the creation of the Massachusetts–Vermont Interstate School Compact to facilitate the formation of interstate school districts between the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Vermont

 

 

Rep. Laura Sibilia, Sponsor of Bill

 

Thursday, January 18, 2018

9:00 AM                   Special Education

Martha Heath, Former Representative, Westford

 

10:00 AM                   Special Education

Vicki Wells, Director, Student Support Services, Addison Central Supervisory Union

 

10:30 AM                   School Workers

Josh Massey, Representative, AFSCME Council 93

 

11:00 AM                   Educational Health Benefits

Suzanne Dirmaier , UniServ Director, Vermont National Education Association

 

1:00 PM                   FLOOR

 

After the floor                   Habitat for Humanity

Susan Sommer, Executive Director, Bennington County Habitat for Humanity

 

3:00 PM                   Financial Literacy

Beth Pearce, State Treasurer, Office of the State Treasurer

John Pelletier, Director, Center for Financial Literacy, Champlain College

Courtney Poquette, Business Instructor, Winooski High School

Sabina Haskell, Director of Public Affairs, Vermont Student Assistance Corporation

 

Friday, January 19, 2018

9:30 AM                   FLOOR

 

After the floor                   Vermont Deaf, Hard of Hearing and DeafBlind Advisory Council

     Annual report

 

Linda Hazard, Ed.D., Director, Vermont Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Program - Phone

Bill Hudson, State Coordinator, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, Department of Disabilities, Aging & Independent Living

Keri Darling, President, Vermont Association for the Deaf

Monica Hutt, Commissioner, Department of Disabilities, Aging & Independent Living

 

12:15 PM                   Tax Workshop

     In room 10 on Sales and Use Tax, Meals and Rooms Tax, and Internet issues

 

 

1:30 PM                   Educational Health Benefits

David Provost, Executive Vice President, Office of Finance and Administration, Middlebury College

 

ATTENTION WITNESSES- Please email handouts to the committee assistant before your scheduled meeting date and bring 20 hard copies. Please write your name, organization, date and title on each document. With few exceptions, any documents you hand out to a committee, or send to a committee assistant, are open to the public and may be posted to the committee’s webpage.

 

If you have any questions and comments, please contact

 Marjorie Zunder at 802-828-2258 or mzunder@leg.state.vt.us