Senate Committee on Education

 

AGENDA

 

Room 28

February 18, 2020 - February 21, 2020

Last Updated 2/21/2020 3:50 PM

 

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

9:30 AM                   Senate Floor Convenes

 

1:30 PM                   Proficiency Based Learning and Notation

Mary Newman, Assistant Head of School, The Sharon Academy

Sue Ceglowski, Executive  Director, Vermont School Boards Association

James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

--                                  S. 226 - An act relating to statewide public school employee health benefits

Possible mark-up and vote

James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Jeff Fannon, Executive Director, Vermont National Education Association

Sue Ceglowski, Executive  Director, Vermont School Boards Association

 

3:00 PM                   S. 46 - An act relating to ethnic and social equity studies standards for public schools

Pupil weighting study

Chloe Wexler, Fiscal Data Analyst, Joint Fiscal Office

James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

1:00 PM                   Senate Floor Convenes

 

15 min after Floor                   S. 46 - An act relating to ethnic and social equity studies standards for public schools

Pupil weighting study

Jay Nichols, Executive Director, Vermont Principals' Association

Jeff Francis, Executive Director, VT Superintendents Association

Jeff Fannon, Executive Director, Vermont National Education Association

James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

--                                  S. 226 - An act relating to statewide public school employee health benefits

James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Sue Ceglowski, Executive  Director, Vermont School Boards Association

 

Thursday, February 20, 2020

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

Joint Assembly

 

11:15 AM                   Senate Floor Convenes

 

1:30 PM                   S. 224 - An act relating to evidence-based structured literacy instruction for students in kindergarten–grade 3 and students with dyslexia and to teacher preparation programs

James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Stephanie Waite, Professional Learning Director, Stern Learning Center

Kara Quinn, Teacher, Edmunds Elementary School

Jay Nichols, Executive Director, Vermont Principals' Association

Cynthia Gardner-Morse, M.Ed., Literacy Tutor

 

3:00 PM                   S. 325 - An act relating to amending the State Board of Education’s special education rules

Cynthia Gardner-Morse, M.Ed., Literacy Tutor

Stephanie Waite, Professional Learning Director, Stern Learning Center

Kara Quinn, Teacher, Edmunds Elementary School

 

3:30 AM                   S. 274 - An act relating to the school start time for high school students

Jay Nichols, Executive Director, Vermont Principals' Association

 

Friday, February 21, 2020

11:30 AM                   Senate Floor Convenes

 

1:30 PM                   S. 328 - An act relating to student athlete compensation

Tacy Lincoln, Associate Director of Athletics, St. Michael's College

Tony Mariano, Athletic Director, Norwich University

Cathleen Rahill, Manager, UVM Student Athletic Services

Kailyn Myshrall, UVM Student Representative, NCAA Student Advisory Committee

Skyler Nash, Student Athlete, University of Vermont

 

--                                  S. 274 - An act relating to the school start time for high school students

Introduction by Sponsor and witness testimony

Sen. Ruth Hardy, Sponsor

Terra Ziporyn Snider, Ph.D., Executive Director, Start School Later, Inc. - Phone

Pallas Snider Ziporyn, Project Manager, Brigham and Women's Hospital Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders

Evelyn Gray, Teacher, Middlebury Union Middle School

Chelsea Myers, Director of Communications and Professional Development, Vermont Superintendents Association

Jeff Francis, Executive Director, VT Superintendents Association

 

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 or comments, please contact

 Jeannie Lowell at 802-828-3805 or jlowell@leg.state.vt.us