Senate Committee on Education

 

AGENDA

 

Room 28

January 22, 2019 - January 25, 2019

Last Updated 3/12/2019 3:16 PM

 

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

9:00 AM                   Senate Protocols and Floor Decorum

 

9:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

1:00 PM                   S. 10 - An act relating to prekindergarten education

Daniel French, Secretary, Agency of Education

Al Gobeille, Secretary, Agency of Human Services

 

1:45 PM                   S. 10 - An act relating to prekindergarten education

Sarah Kenney, Senior Director of Policy, Let's Grow Kids

Sherry Carlson, Senior Director of Programs, Let's Grow Kids

 

3:00 PM                   S. 40 - An act relating to testing and remediation of lead in the drinking water of schools and child care facilities

Introduction by sponsors and walk-through by Legislative Counsel

Sen. Tim Ashe, Sponsor

Sen. Brian Campion, Sponsor

Michael O'Grady, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

1:00 PM                   Senate Floor

 

15 min after Floor                   S. 40 - An act relating to testing and remediation of lead in the drinking water of schools and child care facilities

Molly Costanza-Robinson, Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Ph.D., Middlebury College

Mark Levine, Commissioner, M.D., Vermont Department of Health

Bryan Redmond, Director, Drinking Water and Groundwater Protection Division, Department of Environmental Conservation

David Englander, General Counsel, Vermont Department of Health

Stephanie Barrett, Associate Fiscal Officer, Joint Fiscal Office

 

Thursday, January 24, 2019

1:30 PM                   Association of Vermont Independent Colleges

Introduction and update

Susan Stitely, President, Association of Vermont Independent Colleges

 

2:00 PM                   Governor's FY 2020 Budget Address

Joint Assembly - House Chamber

 

3:30 PM                   S. 40 - An act relating to testing and remediation of lead in the drinking water of schools and child care facilities

Jeff Fannon, Executive Director, Vermont National Education Association

Jeff Francis, Executive Director, Vermont Superintendents Association, VT Superintendents Association, VT School Boards Association, VT Principals' Association

Jay Nichols, Executive Director, Vermont Principals' Association

Rebecca Ellis, Deputy Commissioner, Department of Environmental Conservation

Bryan Redmond, Director, Drinking Water and Groundwater Protection Division, Department of Environmental Conservation

 

Friday, January 25, 2019

11:30 AM                   Implicit Bias Training

Ethan Allen Room

 

1:30 PM                   S. 40 - An act relating to testing and remediation of lead in the drinking water of schools and child care facilities

Stephanie Barrett, Associate Fiscal Officer, Joint Fiscal Office

David Englander, General Counsel, Vermont Department of Health

Bryan Redmond, Director, Drinking Water and Groundwater Protection Division, Department of Environmental Conservation

Paul Burns, Executive Director, Vermont Public Interest Research Group

 

2:00 PM                   S. 10 - An act relating to prekindergarten education

Stacie Curtis, Early Education Coordinator, Burlington School District

Kate Rogers, Early Learning Program Manager, Agency of Education

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

Ted Fisher, Director of Communications and Legislative Affairs, VT Department of Education

James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Linda January, Executive  Director, Otter Creek Child Center

Cheryl Cummings, Assistant Director, Otter Creek Child Center

Betsy Aminata-Barstow, Provider, Nature's Ninos Childcare

Chloe Learey, Executive  Director, Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development - 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