Agenda - Education

Senate Committee on Education
June 2, 2011 Upon Adjournment John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room
Adjourned

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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
	May 19, 2011
	May 26, 2011
LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED
		SB35	DORSEY	EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY - Delays implementation of a system to assign performance-based letter grades to public schools and school districts. (gov sig) (OR +$2,700 GF EX See Note)
		SB128	DORSEY	POSTSECONDARY ED - Constitutional Amendment to provide exclusive authority to Board of Supervisors for Community and Technical Colleges over programs of public postsecondary vocational-technical training and institutions of higher education offering associate degrees but not baccalaureate degrees. (2/3 - CA13s1(A)) (OR NO IMPACT See Note)
		SB140	APPEL	POSTSECONDARY ED - Constitutional Amendment to abolish the Board of Regents and the postsecondary management boards and transfer their powers, duties, and responsibilities to a newly created La. Postsecondary Education Board of Trustees. (2/3 - CA13s1(A)) (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
		SB201	PERRY	EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY - Delays implementation of a system to assign performance-based letter grades to public schools and school districts. (gov sig)
		SB236	WILLARD-LEWIS	SCHOOLS - Requires BESE to adopt rules providing for the establishment of bus routes to RSD schools that enhance student safety and reduce student travel time on a school bus to and from school. (gov sig)
		SB248	WILLARD-LEWIS	EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY - Clarifies the process for returning back to the school system those schools that have been transferred to the RSD that are no longer academically unacceptable. (gov sig)
		SB251	APPEL	POSTSECONDARY ED - Creates the La. Postsecondary Education Board of Trustees as the sole governing board for postsecondary education and provides relative to the powers, duties, and functions of the board.
		HCR23	P.SMITH	EDUCATION - Requests that the Board of Regents and State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education jointly study issues relative to the funding and impact of dual enrollment programs
		HCR25	HOFFMANN	STUDENT/ASSESSMENT - Requests that the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education study issues related to the assessment of foreign exchange students
		HCR30	BADON	COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES - Requests that the Board of Regents study certain issues relative to public postsecondary education institutions
		HCR32	BADON	SCHOOLS/DISTRICTS - Requests that BESE and the Recovery School District study jointly the feasibility of building a high school at the site of the former Alfred Lawless High School in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans
		HCR56	HARRISON	STUDENT/LOANS-SCHOLARSHP - Urges and requests the La. Office of Student Financial Assistance to study the feasibility of requiring repayment of TOPS by a student for any particular semester during the first two award years if the student does not make academic progress or fails to maintain full-time standing
		HCR66	HARRISON	HIGHER EDUCATION - Requests that the Board of Regents, Dept. of Revenue, and La. Workforce Commission continue to work cooperatively relative to the reporting and sharing of certain data
		HCR70	STIAES	SCHOOLS - Requests that BESE and the Recovery School District study jointly the feasibility of building a high school at the site of the former Alfred Lawless High School in New Orleans and account for the use of hurricane recovery funds
		HCR78	SCHRODER	PUBLIC BUILDINGS/GROUNDS - Urges and requests the Board of Regents to study alternative uses of underutilized facilities at public postsecondary education institutions
		HCR92	HOFFMANN	BESE - Requests that the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education study and encourage the presence of Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) chapters in schools
		HCR106	HOFFMANN	HEALTH/EMERG MED SERVICE - Extols the benefits of the Heimlich maneuver and encourages schools to teach this lifesaving technique
		HCR110	SCHRODER	HIGHER ED/BD REGENTS - Requests the Board of Regents to study inequalities in current tuition at four-year schools
		HB31	HARDY	STUDENTS - Provides relative to minimum academic eligibility requirements for participation by certain students in interscholastic athletics
		HB78	J.EDWARDS	EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY - Provides relative to the auditing of school systems which are academically in crisis (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
		HB191	BADON	SCHOOLS/PROPRIETARY - Excludes a school or business which offers yoga teacher training from the definition of a proprietary school for purposes of licensing by the Bd. of Regents
		HB311	LABRUZZO	SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES - Requires a public school employee to report his arrest for various offenses to his employer
		HB323	SEABAUGH	PUBLIC BUILDINGS/GROUNDS - Authorizes the Caddo Parish School Board to name the football field at Youree Drive Middle AP Magnet School in honor of Coach Tom Knox
		HB373	GUINN	STUDENT/SCH ATTENDANCE - Provides relative to prekindergarten instruction and age requirements at public and nonpublic elementary schools (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)
		HB419	P.SMITH	EDUCATION/REMEDIAL - Creates the Remedial Education Commission (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
		HB424	MONTOUCET	STATE DEPARTMENTS - Provides for the La. French Language Services program (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
CONSIDERATION OF ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE
ADJOURNMENT