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Senate Committee on Education
AGENDA
Room 28
January 23, 2018 - January 26, 2018
Last Updated 2/27/2018 5:33 PM
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
9:30 AM Senate Floor
1:00 PM Governor's FY 2019 Budget Address
Joint Assembly-House Chamber
2:30 PM S. 279 - An act relating to radon testing in schools
David Grass, Chief, Environmental Health Surveillance, Department of Health
David Englander, Senior Policy and Legal Advisor, Vermont Department of Health
Peter Crowley, CZ Environmental Remediation
3:00 PM Income-based education funding
Martha Heath, Former Representative, Westford - Phone
3:45 PM Committee Discussion
4:00 PM Chair drafting time with Legislative Council Counsel/Committee work time
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
1:00 PM Senate Floor
15 min after Floor S. 195 - An act relating to the Vermont National Guard Educational Assistance Program
Rep. Kevin "Coach" Christie, Hartford
Major General Steven Cray, Adjutant General, Vermont National Guard
Rep. George W. Till, Jericho / Underhill
2:15 PM S. 257 - An act relating to miscellaneous changes to education law
Additional amendment language
Sen. Philip Baruth
Clare Buckley, Lobbyist, Vermont Student Assistance Corporation
Major General Steven Cray, Adjutant General, Vermont National Guard
3:00 PM Break
3:15 PM Act 46 Progress Report
Committee discussion
3:25 PM Picus Report: Evaluation of Vermont's Education Finance System
Committee discussion
Sen. Philip Baruth
3:30 PM Governor's Budget Address
Committee discussion
4:00 PM Proficiency Based Learning
John Pelletier, Resident, Lamoille South Supervisory Union
Eva Krikowski, Bennington College Student
Thursday, January 25, 2018
1:00 PM Senate Floor
15 min after Floor Secretary of Administration Susanne Young memo on education funding
Susanne Young, Secretary of Administration, Agency of Administration
2:45 PM Proficiency Based Learning
Pat Fitzsimmons, Proficiency-Based Learning Team Leader, Agency of Education
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM Preventing sexual exploitation
Sen. Debbie Ingram
Friday, January 26, 2018
11:30 AM Senate Floor
1:30 PM S. 257 - An act relating to miscellaneous changes to education law
Portability
Allison Aguilar, Senior Research Associate, American Federation of Teachers
1:45 PM S. 229 - An act relating to State Board of Education approval of independent schools
James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council
Laura Pelosi, Lobbyist, Vermont Independent Schools
ATTENTION WITNESSES- Please email handouts to the committee assistant before your scheduled meeting date and bring 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
Jeannie Lowell at 802-828-3805 or jlowell@leg.state.vt.us