Senate Committee on Education

 

AGENDA

 

Room 28

March 20, 2018 - March 23, 2018

Last Updated 4/11/2018 12:21 PM

 

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

9:30 AM Senate Floor

 

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

Tammy Kolbe, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Vermont

James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Marilyn Mahusky, Staff Attorney, Disability Law Project, Vermont Legal Aid - Invited

Traci Sawyers, Executive Director, Vermont Council of Special Education Administrators

Dylan McNamara, Co-Director of Student Support Services, Essex Westford School District

Jeff Francis, Executive Director, Vermont Superintendents Association

 

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

1:00 PM Senate Floor

 

2:30 PM School Safety

Sign-up outside Room 11 for students who wish to testify

 

3:00 PM School Safety

     Student hearing with Senate Education in room 11, 3 PM to 5 PM

 

Alaena Hunt, Student, Stowe Middle School

Nicolas Hanna, Student, Essex Westford School District

Sarah Evans, Student, Stowe Middle School

Willa Lane, Student, Union-32 High School

Chloe Clark, Student, Middlebury Union High School

Emma Pope McCright, Student, Middlebury Union High School

Narges Anzali, Student, Middlebury Middle School

Arianna Graham Gurland, Student, Middlebury Middle School

Dahlia Harrison Irving, Student, Middlebury Middle School

Wren Colwell, Student, Middlebury Union High School

Sophie Pope McCright, Student, Middlebury Union High School

Willa Yonkman, Student, Harwood Union High School

Sylvan Williams, Student, Union-32 High School

Cameron  Mueller-Harder , Student, Cabot School

Oskar Neuburger, Student, Montpelier High School

Hope Petraro, Student, Montpelier High School

Nicholas Colwell, Student, Montpelier High School

Rowyn Leitch, Student, Montpelier High School

Nasteha Abudullahi, Student, Burlington High School

Zanevia Wilcox, Student, Burlington High School

Liam Frye, Student, Montpelier High School

Greta Alexander Parker, Student, Essex Westford School District

Hannah Fraser, Student, Champlain Valley Union High School

Amelia Fifield, Student, Hartford High School

Madeleine Knopf, Student, Hartford High School

Syd Frolick, Student, Essex Westford School District

Jackson Markow, Student, Montpelier High School

Hazel Macmillian, Student, Harwood Union High School

Ian Keene, Student, Montpelier High School

Sabina Brochu, Student, Williston Central School

Connor Solimano, Member, State Board of Education

Callahan Beck, Member, State Board of Education

 

Thursday, March 22, 2018

1:00 PM Senate Floor

 

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

James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Kirsten Murphy, Policy Analyst, Vermont Development Disabilities Council

Martha Allen, President, Vermont National Education Association

Karen Price, Director of Family Support, Vermont Family Network

William  Mathis, Member, State Board of Education

Peter Peltz, Member, State Board of Education

Christa Yagjian, Parent - Phone

 

Friday, March 23, 2018

11:30 AM Senate Floor

 

1:45 PM Vermont Adult Learning

Pixie Loomis, Executive Director, Vermont Adult Learning

Alexis Wea Mbengue, Student

Zeynab Kouyate, Student

Morgan Liska, Student

 

2:00 PM Funding of services for students who require additional support

Miriam Stoll, Parent

 

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