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House Committee on Education
AGENDA
Via Zoom
January 26, 2021 - January 29, 2021
Last Updated 1/29/2021 11:22 AM
Meetings are livestreamed here unless otherwise noted.
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
10:00 AM House Floor
Caucuses immediately following the Floor
1:00 PM Governor's FY2022 Budget Address
Joint Assembly
15 Min After Governor's FY2022 Budget Address Discussion
Governor's Joint Hearing with Senate Education
Budget Address Please click here for the livestream
James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
Daniel French, Ed.D., Secretary, Agency of Education
4:00 PM Adjourn
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
9:00 AM H. 101 - An act relating to the implementation of 2018 Acts and Resolves No. 173 by providing grant funding to build systems-driven, sustainable literacy support for all students with measurable outcomes
Introduction and Walk Through
Rep. Sarah "Sarita" Austin, Sponsor, House Committee on Education
James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
9:50 AM H. 106 - An act relating to equitable access to a high-quality education through community schools
Introduction and Walk Through
Rep. Kathleen James, Sponsor, House Committee on Education
James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
11:00 AM H. 54 - An act relating to adjusting the existing weighting factors, and adding new weighting factors, used to calculate equalized pupils
Walk Through
James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
12:00 PM Lunch
1:15 PM House Floor
10 Min After Floor Introduction to Education Finance
Education Fund Update
Current Calculations of Equalized Pupils
Chloe Wexler, Fiscal Data Analyst, Joint Fiscal Office
3:00 PM Select Committee on Higher Education Report
Brian Prescott, Vice President, The National Center for Higher Education Management Systems
Joyce Judy, Chair, Select Committee on the Future of Public Higher Education in Vermont
Sophie Zdatny, Chancellor, Vermont State Colleges
- Adjourn
Thursday, January 28, 2021
9:30 AM School Construction
Review of last biennium's H.209 - an act relating to school construction
Catherine Benham, Associate Fiscal Officer, Joint Fiscal Office
Rebecca Wasserman, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
10:40 AM Census Based Funding Advisory Group Report
Meagan Roy, Director of Student Support Services, Chair, Census-Based Funding Advisory Group
1:15 PM House Floor
Friday, January 29, 2021
9:30 AM House Floor
15 Min After Floor Governor's Proposed Childcare Plan
Joint Hearing with House Human Services
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Sean Brown, Commissioner, Department for Children and Families
Mark Levine, M.D., Commissioner, Vermont Department of Health
Sarah Squirrell, Commissioner, Department of Mental Health
Sarah Truckle, Financial Director IV, Department for Children and Families
Heather Bouchey, Ph.D., Deputy Secretary, Agency of Education
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Update on the Status of Education
Ted Fisher, Director of Communications and Legislative Affairs, Agency of Education
- 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