House Committee on Education

AGENDA

Via Zoom

January 19, 2021 - January 22, 2021

Last Updated 1/22/2021 1:39 PM

Meetings are livestreamed here unless otherwise noted.

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

10:00 AM                   House Floor

After the Floor                     Implicit Bias Prevention Training

1:00 PM                   Caucuses

2:00 PM                   Introduction to Education Finance

Joint Fiscal Office

Chloe Wexler, Fiscal Data Analyst, Joint Fiscal Office

Catherine Benham, Associate Fiscal Officer, Joint Fiscal Office

-                                   Adjourn

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

9:30 AM                   H.54 - An act relating to adjusting the existing weighting factors, and adding new weighting factors, used to calculate equalized pupils

Introduction

Rep. Laura Sibilia, Sponsor

9:45 AM                   H.35 - An act relating to eliminating eligible school construction costs from a school district’s excess spending

Introduction

Rep. Peter Conlon, Sponsor, House Committee on Education

10:00 AM                   H.78 - An act relating to eliminating from the excess spending calculation a school employer’s annual increases in costs associated with health care premium contributions

Introduction

Rep. Peter Conlon, Sponsor, House Committee on Education

11:30 AM                   Introduction to Education Finance

Continued

Chloe Wexler, Joint Fiscal Office

12:00 PM                   Lunch

Presidential Inauguration

1:15 PM                   House Floor

Thursday, January 21, 2021

9:30 AM                   COVID-19 Learning Loss and Recovery

DMG Report

Nathan Levenson, Retired President, District Management Group

10:30 AM                   Break

10:45 AM                   COVID-19 Learning Loss and Recovery

Act 173

James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel

11:30 AM                   COVID-19 Learning Loss and Recovery

Act 173

Policy Brief Special Education

Tammy Kolbe, Ph.D, Ed.D., Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, College of Education and Social Services, University of Vermont

12:15 PM                   Lunch

1:15 PM                   House Floor

1:45 PM                   COVID-19 Learning Loss and Recovery

Daniel French, Ed.D., Secretary, Agency of Education

2:30 PM                   COVID-19 Learning Loss and Recovery

Meagan Roy, Director of Student Support Services, Champlain Valley School District

-                                   Adjourn

Friday, January 22, 2021

9:30 AM                   House Floor

10 Min After Floor                   Update on Education's COVID-19 Response

Ted Fisher, Director of Communications and Legislative Affairs, Agency of Education

10:30 AM                   H.79 - An act relating to requiring postsecondary credits in African American history as a condition of teacher licensing

Introduction

Rep. Maida Townsend, Sponsor

-                                   Governor's Proposed FY2021 Budget Adjustment

Nathan Lavery, Director of Finance, Burlington School District

Bill Bates, Chief Financial Officer, Agency of Education - Invited

11:15 AM                   CRF, HVAC, and other Funding

Coronavirus Relief Fund

Bill Bates, Chief Financial Officer, Agency of Education

Jill Briggs Campbell, COVID 19 Federal Emergency Funds Project Manager, Agency of Education

Brad James, Education Finance Manager, Agency of Education

12:00 PM                   Lunch

1:00 PM                   HVAC Funding

Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Systems

Daniel Reilly, Public Affairs Director, Efficiency Vermont

Jody Lesko, Director of Programs and Implementation, Efficiency Vermont

2:00 PM                   H.86 -  Miscellaneous changes to education law; secondary education; VSAC; portability

Rep. Peter Anthony, Sponsor

Rep. James Masland, Sponsor

-                                   Adjourn

ATTENTION WITNESSES

Please email handouts to the committee assistant at least 24 hours before your scheduled meeting time. With few exceptions, any documents you send to a committee assistant, are open to the public and may be posted to the committee’s web page.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact

 Jessi Tracy at jtracy@leg.state.vt.us