Senate Committee on Education

 

AGENDA

 

Room 28

February 13, 2018 - February 16, 2018

Last Updated 2/27/2018 2:39 PM

 

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

9:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

1:30 PM                   S. 229 - An act relating to State Board of Education approval of independent schools

Molly Bachman, General Counsel, Agency of Education

James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Rick Gordon, Director, Compass School

Lucas Saunders, Student, Compass School

 

2:30 PM                   S. 257 - An act relating to miscellaneous changes to education law

Pre-Kindergarten: testimony

Debora Price, Director, Educator Quality, Agency of Education

Sierra Lowell, Concerned Citizen

 

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

1:00 PM                   Senate Floor

 

15 min after Floor                   S. 257 - An act relating to miscellaneous changes to education law

Pre-Kindergarten: Agencies of Education and Human Services proposed language

Sandra Cameron, Early Education Director, Barre Supervisory Union

Jacqueline Tolman, Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment, Barre Supervisory Union

Chris Kibbe, Superintendent, Windham Northeast Supervisory Union

Brad James, Education Finance Manager, Agency of Education

Emily Byrne, Chief Financial Officer, Agency of Education

Amy Fowler, Deputy Secretary, Ed.D., Agency of Education

Betsy Aminata-Barstow, Licensed home-based child care provider

 

Thursday, February 15, 2018

10:30 AM                   Election of Trustees for the Vermont State Colleges Corporation

Joint Assembly

 

1:00 PM                   Senate Floor

 

3:30 PM                   S. 257 - An act relating to miscellaneous changes to education law

Pre-Kindergarten: Agencies of Education and Human Services' proposed language

Al Gobeille, Secretary, Agency of Human Services

Reeva Murphy, Deputy Commissioner, Child Development Division, Department for Children and Families

Amy Fowler, Deputy Secretary, Ed.D., Agency of Education

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

 

Friday, February 16, 2018

11:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

1:30 PM                   Afterschool Programs

Erik Petersen, Vice President of Policy, Afterschool Alliance

 

1:45 PM                   

S. 257 - An act relating to miscellaneous changes to education law

Pre-Kindergarten: testimony

Joanne LeBlanc, Superintendent, Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union

Sonja Raymond, Executive Director, Vermont Association for the Education of Young Children

Nicole Mace, Executive Director, Vermont School Boards Association

 

3:00 PM                   S. 279 - An act relating to radon testing in schools

Rebecca Ryan, Senior Director, Health Promotion and Public Policy, American Lung Association of the Northeast

Katie McLinn, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

ATTENTION WITNESSES- Please email handouts to the committee assistant before your scheduled meeting date and bring 10 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