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Senate Committee on Education

 

AGENDA

 

Room 28

March 13, 2018 - March 16, 2018

Last Updated 3/16/2018 3:30 PM

 

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

9:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

1:30 PM                   Funding of services for students who require additional support

Walk-through and testimony

James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Emily Byrne, Chief Financial Officer, Agency of Education

 

2:00 PM                   S. 229 - An act relating to State Board of Education approval of independent schools

Proposed amendment

Sen. Brian Campion, Sponsor

 

2:15 PM                   Funding of services for students who require additional support

Walk-through and testimony

James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Rep. David Sharpe, Sponsor, House Committee on Education

 

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

12:30 PM                   Senate Floor

 

2:30 PM                   S. 109 - An act relating to tuition payments and public high school choice

Sen. John Rodgers, Sponsor

 

2:45 PM                   Farm to School

Betsy Rosenbluth, Project Director, Vermont Farm to School Network

Sarah Tousignant, Director, Mountain Village School

Faye Conte, Advocacy and Education Director, Hunger Free Vermont

 

3:00 PM                   S. 257 - An act relating to miscellaneous changes to education law

Walk-through and discussion of Senator Rodgers' proposed amendment

James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

3:15 PM                   Funding of services for students who require additional support

Walk-through

James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Haley Jones, Public Information Officer, Agency of Education

Cammie Naylor, Staff Attorney, Vermont Legal Aid

Cindy Moran, State Director of Special Education, Agency of Education

Susan Aranoff, Senior Planner and Policy Analyst, Vermont Developmental Disabilities Council

 

Thursday, March 15, 2018

10:30 AM                   Judicial Retention

Joint Assembly - House Chamber

 

1:00 PM                   Senate Floor

 

15 min after Floor                   Funding of services for students who require additional support

Emily Byrne, Chief Financial Officer, Agency of Education

Karin Edwards, Director, Integrated Support for Learning, Pre-K-Grade 8, Agency of Education

Kirsten Murphy, Policy Analyst, Vermont Development Disabilities Council

 

Friday, March 16, 2018

11:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

2:00 PM                   Act 46 Update

Ruth Hardy, former ACSD/Middlebury School Board member

 

2:30 PM                   S. 109 - An act relating to tuition payments and public high school choice

Brad James, Education Finance Manager, Agency of Education

 

2:45 PM                   Funding of services for students who require additional support

Jay Nichols, Executive Director, Vermont Principals' Association

Nathan Levenson, President, District Management Group - Phone

 

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