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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