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

Please click here for the livestream

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