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• That's over $17,500 a student.
• Student outcomes behind it.
• Many of you probably don't know, Southwest ISD has 15,000 students; 18% of them are bilingual students
• What we want to see is, we want this many students at meets rates, or this many students growing a year
• At a time when Texas students... ...students urgently need access to well-prepared and experienced teachers

Bills: SB26, SB 26

Keywords: teacher compensation, education funding, public school educators, teacher retention, teacher designation, SB 26, Texas Property Code, colonia, colonias, Spanish translation, bilingual contract, real estate contract, executory contract, residential property, border county, international border, economically distressed area, consumer protection, language access, translator certified in Spanish

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• But where does the student go? The student disappears.
• But where does the student go? The student disappears.
• But where does the student go? The student disappears.
• But where does the student go? The student disappears.
• But where does the student go? The student disappears.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• So just a frame of reference for where students are. of how well the students are doing, we keep track
• It's harmful for students. It causes a reduction in student achievement on average.
• Both for public students and for private school students.
• . students.
• You see student outcomes go up.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• THIS BILL MODIFIES REQUIREMENTS FOR STUDENTS THAT LOWER THE STAKES OF STUDENTS IN THE ALGEBRA ONE IN
• IF A STUDENT DOESN'T GET A 2 ON P.M.
• AND I WOULD NOTE TO THE GOAL IS NOT TO NOT PROMOTE STUDENTS, NOT TO NOT RETAIN STUDENTS.
• AND WHAT WE MISS IS THE ACTUAL STUDENT. WE MISSED THE STUDENT SITTING IN THAT TEST.
• THAT'S TROUBLING FOR ME FOR THOSE STUDENTS THAT WANT TO GO TO THE MILITARY, STUDENTS THAT WANT TO GO

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• The dark blue is adult students.
• We were able to increase student count by 10,000 students in career tech.
• Have shop classes for every student.
• students.
• paying 1.5 times per student.

Keywords: 914, all

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• allow high school high school students allow high school high school students that<00:04:16.479>
• <00:15:34.160> from across the board uh for students from across the board uh for students
• <00:15:56.399> who 1998 was not designed for students who 1998 was not designed for students
• <00:40:20.320> able<00:40:20.640> to students have never been able to students have
• rooms and helping the students those rooms and helping the students each<00:44:13.920> and<00

Keywords: 958, all

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• The Student Academic Success Subcommittee will come to order.
• In my personal experience, I was a student in leadership advocacy.
• I met founders of nonprofits, and I'm among students with ideas, and I met students with dreams who were
• ENVIRONMENTS FOR STUDENTS WITH AUTISM.
• I worked alongside students on the autism spectrum every single day.

Summary: The Student Academic Success Subcommittee met with a quorum and considered two PCS bills. PCS for HB 1059, by Rep. Booth, would designate the first week of November as Florida Speech and Debate Week to recognize speech and debate programs and the educators, coaches, judges, and school districts that support them. Supporters, including students and advocates, testified that speech and debate builds critical thinking, civics knowledge, confidence, and respectful civil discourse, and several members praised the students’ testimony and the program’s value. The bill was reported favorably by a 14-0 vote. The committee then heard PCS for HB 851, by Rep. Long, which requires each school district’s professional learning system to include at least one annual autism-specific training opportunity for teachers and school-based administrators, developed with the Center for Autism and grounded in evidence-based practices. The sponsor said the bill is intended to give educators practical tools to support students with autism, while members asked questions about scope, virtual training, charter schools, and the relationship to existing law. Public testimony and member debate largely supported the bill, with speakers emphasizing the need for better educator preparation and inclusion for students with autism. The bill also passed unanimously, 14-0, and was reported favorably. At the end of the meeting, members and the chair offered brief closing remarks thanking colleagues and staff and reflecting on the committee’s work, with the chair noting it may have been the committee’s last meeting of the session.

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• Those online students in those districts are funded the same exact way as in-person students are funded
• Students.
• Receiving funding for those virtual students that they had last year, even though those students aren't
• That actually serves the students; i.e., Gallup receives the funding, not the district in which the students
• The SEG has three factors in it for homeschool students and for... charter school students who want to

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• funding per student.
• I think 130,000 students in Broward County—sorry, 193,000 Florida students took AP classes.
• school career, we want to give a tracking number, a student ID number, to every student who receives
• and that we use a student identification number to keep track of where students are and that we do a
• students in our state.

Summary: The Appropriations Committee met for Budget Day and heard presentations on the Senate’s proposed 2025-2026 budget, SPB 25-200, totaling $117.4 billion. Chair Hooper said the plan reduces overall spending from the prior year, keeps strong reserves, includes a 4% pay raise for state employees, maintains employee health care contributions, and makes major investments in water quality, transportation, and education infrastructure. Committee chairs then summarized their budget silos, including K-12 education, higher education, health and human services, criminal and civil justice, transportation/tourism/economic development, and agriculture/environment/general government. Members asked questions mainly about school funding, AP and dual enrollment support, voucher and scholarship impacts, and the My Safe Florida Home program. The committee adopted a large consent package of amendments and then approved three late-file amendments: funding virtual college tours for high school students, funding the FSU Sunshine Genetics program, and providing money for the Port of Fernandina customs facility. The committee then voted to report SPB 2500, the General Appropriations Bill, as a committee bill. It also favorably reported SPB 2502 (implementing bill), SPB 2504 (state employees placeholder), SB 7022 (Florida Retirement System contribution rates and DROP changes), CS/SB 1320 (recreating the Resilient Florida Trust Fund), SPB 2506 (gaming compact revenue distributions, including water projects and rural lands), SPB 2508 (29 new judgeships), SB 7014 (ending the court mediation and arbitration trust fund), SPB 2510 (K-12 conforming bill), SPB 2512 (higher education conforming bill), and SPB 2514 (health and human services conforming bill). The committee also took up several policy bills. It approved SB 7028 on cancer research, creating grant parameters, reporting requirements, a five-year pediatric cancer research incubator, and the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute VisionGen Initiative. It approved CS/CS/SB 170 on nursing home quality, adding resident satisfaction surveys, medical director standards, safety culture reviews, electronic health record requirements, financial reporting penalties, and a study of best practices. It approved CS/CS/SB 168, the Tristan Murphy Act, which expands mental health diversion options, adds Hillsborough County to a forensic hospital diversion pilot, expands grant uses, and creates a behavioral health data repository. It also approved SB 114 creating the Florida Center for Excellence in Insurance and Risk Management at FSU and moving the public hurricane loss model there. The committee then began considering SB 180 on emergency preparedness and response, including a late-file amendment, but the transcript cuts off before final action on that bill.

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• So regardless of where the students are located Proviso language, that it's a per-student funding model
• Because if I serve 10 students or 50 students, I've got to have a base amount of money to have a teacher
• So the model generates the activity that the students are actually enrolled in, and not all students
• You know, one student took it, one student passed, and they have 100% passage rate, and then the money
• So they could, hypothetically, that 100% passage rate could be just one student took it, one student

Summary: The Higher Education Budget Subcommittee met to review funding models for the Florida College System and district workforce education programs, with an emphasis on how new dollars are allocated in the program fund and how performance and targeted funding are incorporated. Chancellor Hebda explained the Florida College System model, including base program funding, student success and pipeline funds, performance incentives for industry certifications, and the 2022 president-developed formula that weights enrollment, workforce enrollment, completions, small-college factors, and regional cost differences, plus a targeted funding floor for colleges below a minimum per-FTE level. Vice Chancellor Goodman then outlined the district workforce model, which uses lagged enrollment, program cost weights, local revenue offsets, small-district adjustments, and unmet-need calculations to distribute lump-sum appropriations to school districts offering workforce education. The department also provided updates on several grant programs and funding delays. Goodman said the Workforce Development Incentive Grant, Pathways to Career Opportunities Grant, Graduation Alternative to Traditional Education Startup Grant, and teacher apprenticeship/mentor bonus programs all involve multi-year awards and often require reversions and reappropriations because projects are delayed, extended, or not fully obligated by year-end. She said the department is moving toward an electronic grants system and had already adjusted internal deadlines to speed awards, while acknowledging some reimbursement delays and explaining that mentor bonuses for teacher apprentices will not be paid until the first cohort reaches the statutory timing requirement. Members asked about tracking whether CTE students work in their trained fields, how Xello is used to inform students about career pathways, how FTE is calculated, whether the funding formulas could encourage growth over quality, and how students with disabilities are counted in workforce funding. Questions also focused on tuition, enrollment trends, and the gap between college and university funding. The committee heard that tuition has remained flat for more than a decade, enrollment has rebounded from COVID and is projected to exceed pre-pandemic levels, and the college system’s funding per FTE varies widely. Valencia College President Kathleen Plinsky testified in support of the proposed formula and an additional $200 million for the Florida College System, saying Valencia is the second-largest college in the state but ranks last in per-FTE funding, which has made it difficult to recruit and retain faculty and admit qualified students in high-demand programs like nursing. The committee took no vote and adjourned after the presentations and questions.

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• AND THEY SEE A MULTITUDE OF STUDENTS.
• SOME STUDENT YOU MAY HAVE ONE THAT IF YOU DO NOT KNOW THE STUDENT YOU WOULD THINK THERE WAS THREATENING
• IT WAS AT THE STUDENT UNION.
• WE HAD A STUDENT THAT OPENED FIRE AT THE STUDENT UNION AND IF YOU GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE RESPONSE YOU
• ARE YOU TALK ABOUT FLORIDA STUDENTS?

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• for all students in for all students in Minnesota<00:06:55.160> hello<00:06:55.479> my<
• <01:03:46.880> have students 46,000 of these students have students 46,000 of these students
• Twenty-eight percent of our students are students of color.
• It is simply discriminatory against nonpublic students, not schools, but students.
• We admit all students who apply.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Do you know how much it costs to educate a student in Weare per student?
• Do you know how much it costs to educate a student in Weare per student?
• student in where per student? student in where per student?
• school students presently. school students presently.
• when a when a student le one student um when a when a student le one student um either<03:10:12.479

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• Uh and for academic the students.
• We do not hire these students.
• them goes right back to the students. them goes right back to the students.
• . students. students.
• students serving for academic purposes. students serving for academic purposes.

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The House Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Education met and first considered House Bill 141, which would make type 1 diabetes information available to students through KDE, school district websites, and school locations such as youth service centers, front offices, and nursing stations. The sponsor explained that a committee substitute removed a requirement that districts distribute the information annually to students, in response to concerns about teacher workload. Members spoke in support, citing the value of helping schools recognize the signs of type 1 diabetes and the usefulness of the information for families. The committee adopted the substitute and passed the bill favorably with the substitute attached. The committee then heard House Bill 415, described as a cleanup measure to House Bill 300, the teacher due process law. The sponsor said the substitute would improve communication between the Education Professional Standards Board and superintendents, remove a requirement that teachers meet with EPSB when a complaint is filed, and move appeal hearings from EPSB to the Attorney General’s office effective July 1, 2027. Members discussed the changes and the bill passed favorably with the committee substitute attached. Finally, the committee took up House Bill 555, which would define student-based enterprises and allow local school boards to decide whether to permit them. The sponsor and a Taylor County High School business teacher described student-run businesses as hands-on learning opportunities that build workforce skills, generate funds for student scholarships and activities, and operate under local control. Members asked about red book compliance, tax and business issues, and how the enterprises relate to programs like DECA and Junior Achievement. The committee passed the bill favorably, and then adjourned.

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• And finally, about the money following the student.
• And one of the three students, one of three students in my district is an English language learner.
• But this bill is not for low-income Texas students.
• Integrated students and diverse student outcomes better.
• Yeah, less than 2% of public school students served.

Bills: SB2, SJR36, SB2, SB2, SR29, SB2

Keywords: Maverick County, recognition, economic development, Texas Senate, community celebration, 1185, senate, all

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• their status as a student of USF.
• So current USF students would still be USF students, and current New College students would still be
• New College students.
• students.
• That is 556 FTIC students total and 291 transfer students. 34% of all undergraduates.

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• and all students across students and all students across Minnesota.<01:18:16.320> Beginning<01
• <01:20:43.040> students academic supports our students students academic supports our students
• Public charter school students are public school students.
• students are public school students. students are public school students.
• our students and staff. our students and staff.

Bills: HF3492, HF3493, HF3494, HF3495, HF3602

Keywords: school safety, grants, education funding, Northern Lights Express, security improvements, rural schools, safe schools, charter schools, nonpublic schools, Tribal education, funding increase, safe schools aid, school security, mental health support, Tribal schools, cybersecurity, funding, mental health, evidence-based plans, public safety

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• SOME INTERVENTIONS THAT THE STUDENT RECEIVES.
• WE MONITOR AND TRACK THE STUDENTS READING LEVELS AND WE ARE ABLE TO SEE THE READING LEVELS OF THE STUDENTS
• WE WANT OUR SCHOOLS TO BE ABLE TO ACCELERATE THOSE STUDENTS AND GET THE STUDENTS IN ADVANCED COURSES
• OUR STUDENTS IN EVERY AREA.
• IN YOUR CASE, STUDENTS.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• And along with that act is, again, evaluating students a little more often and catching those students
• to student to student um<00:05:31.120> some<00:05:31.280> of<00:05:31.479> the<
• um parents are really those students um parents are really those students Champions<00:09:56.600
• and students with disabilities.
• That really advocate for the special ed students and students with disabilities.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• It's also helping us lift up that student experience and make sure those students are retained and they
• Student success means recruiting more students than other programs.
• But 93 students have come back.
• So it's not just recent students. These students go back a ways.
• So it's not just recent students. These students go back a ways.

Summary: The committee met at NDSU and approved the April 9 minutes. The main purpose of the meeting was an informational presentation from NDSU President David Stewart and university leaders on the university’s priorities, including enrollment, student success, research, commercialization, and use of New Horizons funding. Stewart emphasized a “One NDSU” approach, thanked legislators for past support, and said the university will focus on recruitment and retention, a new strategic plan, and growing research and tech transfer while serving North Dakota’s workforce needs. University leaders said NDSU is using tuition waivers more strategically and will work to reduce them over time through scholarship optimization. Provost Sherry Vale described academic portfolio reviews, program closures or consolidations, strategic hiring, and workload policies aimed at aligning resources with demand. They also highlighted student outcomes, including high completion rates, strong employment placement, and NDSU’s role in producing a large share of the state’s engineers, nurses, and agriculture graduates. Several students testified about how NDSU’s mentoring, internships, research, and support services helped them succeed. The committee also heard from partners on New Horizons-related collaborations: Gateway to Science described K-12 STEM outreach in rural and tribal areas, and Sanford Research discussed joint research efforts, including COBRE-related work, obesity and GLP-1 studies, and a joint biostatistics hire. Later speakers highlighted Governor’s School and NDSU’s research and commercialization efforts, including growth in research expenditures and invention disclosures. No additional votes or formal actions were taken beyond approving the minutes.