Senate Committee on Education

 

AGENDA

 

Room 28 and Zoom

March 28, 2023 - March 31, 2023

Last Updated 3/30/2023 2:00 PM

 

Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are livestreamed at https://legislature.vermont.gov/committee/streaming/senate-education.

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

9:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

1:00 PM                   Joint Assembly

Judicial Retention of Supreme Court Justices and Superior Court Judges

 

3:00 PM                   H. 461 - An act relating to making miscellaneous changes in education laws

Retta Dunlap, Home School Advocate, Vermont Home Education Network

 

3:20 PM                   S. 134 - An act relating to requiring legislative approval prior to closing or reducing the size or scope of any Vermont State College library

Linda Olson, AFT-Vermont Co-President for Higher Education, American Federation of Teachers VT

Preston P. Garcia, Professor of Biology, Castleton University Faculty Assembly President

Beth Walsh, President, Vermont State Colleges United Professionals

 

-                                   Adjourn

 

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

1:00 PM                   Senate  Floor

 

3:15 PM                   PCB Testing in Schools

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

John Beling, Commissioner, Department of Environmental Conservation

 

-                                   Adjourn

 

Thursday, March 30, 2023

1:00 PM                   Senate Floor

 

-                                   No Meeting Scheduled for Today

 

Friday, March 31, 2023

11:30 PM                   Senate  Floor

 

1:30 PM                   Independent Schools and Public Schools

Overview

Emily Simmons, General Counsel, Agency of Education

 

2:15 PM                   School Mascots

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

 

2:45 PM                   H. 461 - An act relating to making miscellaneous changes in education laws

Overview

Rep. Peter Conlon, House Committee on Education

 

3:00 PM                   PCB Testing in Schools

Robert A. Woellner, President, QUEST Environmental

 

-                                   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

 Hayden Ross at hross@leg.state.vt.us