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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