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NM
Transcript Highlights:
  • things like... who are very well on track but are just very anxious when taking these standardized tests
  • So, testing is not just what you know, but also those strategies and skills and actual test-taking, and
  • Beginning with the New Mexico Standards, GMCS has developed pacing guides where standards are taught and tested
  • the reading ones, but we made about three percentage points of growth across the grades that are tested
  • And then, all of a sudden, there was so much concentration on test scores that those teams were often
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session May 29th, 2025

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Department of Motor Vehicles already allows AV testing and deployment on our public The Department
  • of Motor Vehicles already allows AV testing and deployment on our public roads.
  • This bill provides much-needed guardrails so we can test and deploy these vehicles but safely and without
  • bill asks for a qualified human safety operator to be present and monitor the technology as it's tested
  • So passing AB 33 will allow companies to test and deploy... ...AVs while having a human safety net operator
Summary: The Assembly convened after a quorum call, prayer, and Pledge of Allegiance, then moved through a long daily file with numerous guest introductions and recognitions, including tributes to outgoing University of California President Michael Drake, student and community advocates, and visitors connected to foster care, military appreciation, and college savings. The chamber also took up several procedural items, including concurrence in Senate amendments to ACR 75 on California Farm Week, which passed 59-0. Members then adopted AJR 7 on protecting federal special education funding and services for students with disabilities, with broad bipartisan support and a 65-0 vote after 63 co-authors were added. The Assembly also adopted ACR 82 recognizing Foster Care Month and ACR 85 recognizing 529 College Savings Day by voice vote after adding co-authors, and ACR 89 recognizing Military Appreciation Month, also adopted by voice vote after co-authors were added. These resolutions featured testimony and remarks emphasizing support for vulnerable children, foster youth, military families, and access to higher education. On policy bills, the Assembly passed AB 929 on groundwater and managed wetlands (41-14), AB 1026 on utility connection timelines for housing projects (52-0), AB 1332 on direct shipment of medicinal cannabis under specified conditions (55-0), AB 1356 on follow-up reporting in DHCS death investigations at treatment facilities (54-0), and AB 671 on streamlining restaurant openings through self-certification of certain plans (62-0). The chamber also approved AB 715 on anti-Semitism and school climate after extensive debate and cross-caucus support, 64-0, and AB 33 on autonomous vehicle deliveries requiring a human safety operator, 52-6. Later, AB 5 on election ballot-counting timelines passed 66-0, AB 27 and AB 28 addressing the Chiquita Canyon landfill disaster passed 61-0 and 44-6 respectively, and the Assembly began consideration of AB 43 to extend state authority over wild and scenic rivers.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • We don't test athletes and see whether they were born with specific biological...
  • The same is true in the state of Idaho, where not just body inspections but chromosomal testing could
  • The state of Texas is suing the NCAA to require examinations or chromosomal testing, and the same is
  • And there's no invasive testing or examination.
  • If there's any ambiguity or dispute, there's no invasive testing contemplated.
Summary: The committee met on April 1, 2025, first adopting its rules and then taking up AB 89, a bill to require CIF to align girls’ high school sports with federal policy and restrict participation to biological females. The author and supporters argued the bill was needed to protect fairness, safety, privacy, and competitive opportunities for girls, citing individual student-athlete stories and examples of transgender participation. Opponents, including parents, athletes, advocates, and technical witnesses, argued the bill would stigmatize transgender youth, invite invasive scrutiny and harassment, and solve a problem they said was extremely rare or unsupported by data. After lengthy public testimony and debate, the committee rejected AB 89 on a 2-7 vote and sent it to the Committee on Education as a failed motion. The committee then heard AB 844, a related measure framed by the author as restoring competitive integrity, protecting student privacy, and bringing California into compliance with Title IX and federal directives. Supporters, including Matt Walsh and a student athlete who said she lost a varsity spot to a transgender student, argued that sex-based sports rules are necessary because biological males retain athletic advantages and that California risks federal funding if it does not change course. Opponents, including educators, parents, LGBTQ advocates, and trans youth, said the bill would increase bullying, harassment, and exclusion, and that existing policies have worked without evidence of harm from transgender athletes. Public comment was again heavily divided, with many speakers on both sides. The transcript ends during public testimony on AB 844, before any final committee vote or action is shown.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, March 10, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • In fact, the United States conducts research, development, and test activities with Israel, who must
  • Department of Homeland Security launched the BioWatch program, a monitoring system that collects and tests
  • Department of Homeland Security launched the BioWatch program, a monitoring system that collects and tests
  • The innovation team finds and tests new commercial technologies and collaborates with companies to adapt
  • THE INNOVATION TEAM FINDS AND TESTS NEW COMMERCIAL TECHNOLOGIES AND COLLABORATES WITH COMPANIES TO ADAPT
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

AGR-AEN Joint Info Briefing - Fri Jan 16, 2026 @ 10:00 AM HST

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The same system has been tested and evaluated throughout the world: the continental U.S., Europe, Asia
  • The same system has<00:47:28.319> been<00:47:28.640> tested<00:47:29.040> and<00
  • :47:29.280> evaluated<00:47:29.839> throughout has been tested and evaluated throughout
  • has been tested and evaluated throughout the<00:47:30.400> world.
  • and being able to test them in a<01:40:51.520> safe<01:40:51.760> environment.
Keywords: 910, house, all
FL

Florida 2026 5th Special Session

FL House Floor Session - 2025-04-30 (10:00AM Session)

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And can you clarify a little bit more detail about refusal to take a breath test and what that means
  • you to take a breath test, and you can decline to take that test.
  • misdemeanor. ...to take that test.
  • a bachelor's degree should not have to take a general knowledge test.
  • I'm sure there are multiple being worked on and tested and pushing through the system.
Summary: The Florida Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several recognitions, including interns, Denim Day awareness for sexual assault survivors, a resolution honoring Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange, and a memorial proclamation for former Senator Karen Johnson Gendron. The chamber then moved to special-order bills, with senators also briefly discussing the session’s pace and thanking staff and colleagues for their work. The first major bill, on driving and boating offenses, was amended and passed 37-0. As amended, it increases penalties for repeat DUI/BUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide/vessel homicide offenses, and adds notice requirements and misdemeanor penalties for refusing lawful breath or urine tests. Senators also passed SB 306 on Medicaid providers 37-0, requiring Medicaid managed care plans to offer more after-hours and holiday access and ensuring more primary care appointment availability outside regular business hours. The Senate then passed a major condominium and cooperative associations bill, also 37-0, after extensive debate and multiple amendments. The measure extends deadlines for structural integrity reserve studies, adds flexibility for reserve funding and budgeting, tightens rules for managers and inspectors, limits certain requirements to buildings of three or more habitable stories, and extends the rescission period for condo purchases. Senators from both parties praised the bill’s sponsors for years of work responding to post-Surfside safety and affordability concerns. The longest and most contentious item was SB 7016/HB 1205 on constitutional amendment petition procedures. Sponsors said the bill responds to fraud and abuse in the citizen initiative process by tightening circulator rules, requiring faster submission of signed petitions, adding voter notification, increasing penalties, and shifting costs to sponsors. Opponents argued it would burden volunteers and make it harder for citizens to qualify initiatives. The chamber adopted a series of amendments, including changes to the petition-circulator threshold, volunteer protections, submission timing, invalid-signature investigation thresholds, and notice/cure provisions, while debate continued over whether the overall package would protect election integrity or suppress citizen-led amendments.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on Education Finance - 02/05/25

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • They learn study skills and test-taking skills that we all know they will need for life.
  • demographics and standardized testing demographics and standardized testing and<00:39:11.400>
  • tests including the Stanford<00:48:19.960> Achievement<00:48:20.520> Test<00:48:21.000
  • Test in elementary school<00:48:23.119> and<00:48:23.280> our<00:48:23.480> school<
  • The cost and time for these evaluations are significant and relieve public schools of the need to test
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
Summary: The Education Finance Committee met on February 5, 2025, to hear testimony from representatives of Minnesota’s Catholic and other nonpublic schools, focused on state nonpublic pupil aid, transportation, counseling, nursing, and related support programs. Meg Forette of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis argued that Catholic schools serve more than 30,000 students across many districts, educate a diverse population, and achieve strong academic results while operating at far lower per-student costs than public schools. She urged lawmakers to reject proposed cuts to nonpublic funding, saying they would be inequitable and harmful to lower-income families, and also raised concerns about state teacher-licensing requirements conflicting with Catholic values. Trisha Menshu, principal of St. John Paul II Catholic School in Northeast Minneapolis, described a student body with high levels of poverty, learning needs, and academic gaps, and said state-funded nurse and guidance-counseling services are essential to keeping students safe, healthy, and on track for high school. She said the school absorbs many costs itself, including medical supplies and significant staff time, and credited the support programs with helping students make strong academic growth and graduate on time. In response to a senator’s question, she clarified that the school uses the nursing aid for limited nurse time and pays other medical-related costs from operating funds, with no billing back to public school districts. Committee members asked follow-up questions about the relationship between teacher licensing and Catholic values, and about how medical needs for nonpublic students are funded. Forette said the concern was not with welcoming all students but with how DEI-related trainings and language are presented in ways that conflict with Catholic teaching. The committee then moved on to the next testifier, Andrew Hiliker of Stella Maris Academy in Duluth, who began by describing his school’s growth and the state’s role in supporting all students, regardless of school choice.
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

PBS Public Hearing - Wed Jan 29, 2025 @ 9:00 AM HST

Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • Calis Grassroots Institute test Calis Grassroots Institute test testimony<00:08:29.840> and
  • Can you speak to some of those communities that you've kind of tested this out in, and that's the basis
  • Can you speak to some of those communities that you've kind of tested this out in, and that's the basis
  • this out in and you've kind of tested this out in and that<00:22:33.679> That's<00:22:33.840>
  • and support um Dr Dudley team testing and support um Dr Dudley via Zoom<00:45:10.800> can<00:
Keywords: 910, house, all
Summary: The committee held its first hearing of the 2025 session and began with housekeeping on testimony deadlines, hybrid participation rules, time management, and expectations for civility. The chair said testimony posted at least 24 hours in advance would be available to members and the public at the same time, late testimony would still be processed, and decision-making would generally be deferred to later in the day so morning hearings could adjourn before the noon floor session. The first bill heard was HB 673 on emergency management. Hawaii Emergency Management Agency administrator James Barros testified in opposition, saying the bill could undermine the executive’s unity of command during emergencies and objecting to provisions allowing the legislature to terminate a state of emergency by a two-thirds vote. Members asked about the difference between an emergency order and a state of emergency, whether other states use legislative checks and balances, and whether long-running emergencies such as COVID-19 or homelessness should have clearer end conditions. Barros said the agency, along with the Attorney General’s office and the governor’s office, would review the language and that the issue is setting conditions for when an emergency ends. The committee then heard HB 596, also on emergency management, which would clarify types of events that count as dangers and emergencies. Barros opposed the bill, saying the current list covers known hazards but should remain open-ended for future threats; he cited COVID-19 as an example of an unforeseen event and said the bill could limit flexibility. Members asked whether the list could be expanded, and Barros said the agency would look at that possibility. Testimony included support from the Grassroots Institute of Hawaii and concerns from the Tax Foundation of Hawaii about the bill’s special fund provisions; the committee also corrected testimony that had been submitted for the wrong bill. The final measure discussed was HB 1060 on emergency preparedness and the Community Readiness Center Program. Barros explained the proposal as part of HEMA’s effort to build local readiness centers and community hubs, with an initial target of 10 communities through a federal grant and a longer-term concept of roughly 100 statewide. The Climate Advisory Team supported the bill’s intent but urged that centers be developed with strong community and nonprofit involvement through the HARRP program. The Department of Taxation offered comments on the special fund, and members raised questions about cost, size, use of existing school facilities, public messaging, and equity across communities. Barros said the centers would provide backup communications, power, water, and food for a community group, would not function as general shelters, and would be designed to help communities hunker down and recover after a disaster.
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Session (02/05/2026)

New Hampshire House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • There’s no requirement that any recipient be means tested.
  • <04:30:54.880> It's any recipient be means tested. It's any recipient be means tested.
  • In the end, what counts is passing the written test and the road test at the DMV.
  • <06:02:49.360> at<06:02:49.600> the written test and the road test at the written test
  • Air Force general and renowned test Air Force general and renowned test pilot<06:39:57.840> Chuck
Keywords: 1189, house, all
NH
Transcript Highlights:
  • says objective evidence, such as a controlled study demonstrating increased proficiency and better test
  • and better test scores is given<00:05:11.759> the<00:05:12.039> same<00:05:12.600>
  • My question to you would be: would the state standardized testing qualify as a scientific study?
  • prove it if you look at the Tims test prove it if you look at the Tims test we're<00:45:47.640><
  • city in Nashua because you know the test city in Nashua because you know the test scores<03:35:06.600
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The committee heard testimony on HB 129, which would redefine “evidence-based” in public education to require objective, science-based evidence for pedagogical methods. The prime sponsor said the bill is a verbatim reintroduction from the prior session and argued that current federal definitions are too vague, allowing subjective surveys and other weak evidence to justify teaching methods. He said the bill is limited to pedagogy, not subject matter, and is intended to improve student outcomes, reduce fad-driven practices, and potentially save money by limiting unnecessary retraining and new materials. Members asked repeatedly about the bill’s scope, including whether it would affect classroom teachers, curriculum content, and existing instructional approaches such as phonics versus whole language or queuing. The sponsor said the bill applies to state and local education bodies and educator training policies, not individual teachers in their classrooms, and that teachers would retain flexibility. He also said standardized testing could be part of a scientific study but is not itself a study, and that textbook providers could be asked to furnish the studies supporting instructional guidance included in their materials. Several members raised concerns about the fiscal note and possible cost shifts to local districts and taxpayers. The sponsor disputed the idea that the bill would necessarily create major new costs or require additional staff, saying any costs would likely be limited and that the department is already applying federal evidence-based rules. He also said if some current methods are not science-based, updating them would be justified even if there were some initial expense. No vote or final action was taken in the portion of the meeting provided.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Aug 20th, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • Test, test. Yes. All right, good morning, Megan.
Bills: HB16
Summary: The Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence met with a quorum present and took up House Bill 16, the omnibus courts bill that had been vetoed by the governor after the regular session. The committee substitute made several changes, including moving certain court creation dates, creating a new county court at law for Maverick County, repealing a missed youth diversion article, removing a civil preference for the 456th District Court in Guadalupe County, clarifying the digital court recording study makeup, correcting a drafting error involving prosecutors in the Special Prosecution Unit, and allowing the Office of the Attorney General to represent SPU prosecutors. Megan LaVoie of the Office of Court Administration testified as a resource witness in support of the bill and thanked the committee for working with the judiciary on the measure. Steve Bresnan of the Texas Court Reporters Association also testified in support of the bill, but used his time to urge action on a separate anti-SLAPP appeal that he said had been pending for 47 months; he distributed materials and proposed an amendment to impose deadlines on the courts, though he said he was not expecting discussion of it that day. After public testimony closed, the committee adopted the substitute without objection. Representative Hayes moved that House Bill 16, as substituted, be reported favorably to the full House with the recommendation that it be passed and printed. The motion prevailed on a 10-0 vote, and the committee then adjourned.
CO

Colorado 2026 Regular Session

Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 093 Apr 17th, 2026

Colorado Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:25:52.320> and with laws concerning testing and with laws concerning testing and drinking
  • In order to participate in the program, you have to be drug tested and alcohol tested regularly to determine
  • they make people take they drug test they make people take they drug test everybody.<02:40:12.400
  • the program, you have to be drug tested the program, you have to be drug tested and<02:40:16.680
  • alcohol tested regularly to and alcohol tested regularly to determine<02:40:19.440> if<02:40:
Keywords: 981, all
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, approved the prior day’s journal, and then took up a large third-reading consent calendar containing many House bills, most of them dealing with appropriations, fund transfers, repeals of programs or cash funds, and related budget adjustments. The calendar included measures affecting broadband infrastructure, early childhood prevention services, school food programs, reading and assessment programs, higher education funding, human services funding models, disaster and transportation funds, public safety communications, and several other state cash funds and reserve requirements. Most of the bills passed with broad support, though several drew recorded no votes from individual senators on specific measures. Before the consent calendar vote, Senator Catlin recognized a Montrose leadership class visiting the chamber. The Senate then adopted the consent calendar, with the clerk recording numerous individual no votes on particular bills. Among the more notable measures passed were bills related to the Healthy School Meals for All program, the state education fund, the Affordable Housing Financing Fund, kinship care, judicial discipline, public defender/prosecutor behavioral health support, public safety personnel health benefits, multimodal transportation funding, unclaimed property transfers, tobacco education funds, and preschool funding. Several bills were approved unanimously or near-unanimously, while others had more divided votes. The chamber then debated Senate Bill 90, which exempts critical infrastructure from the Consumer Repair Bill of Rights Act. Senator Snyder explained that the bill had been revised after stakeholder discussions with opponents, the governor’s office, and the attorney general’s office; the amendment L006 was described as narrowing and defining the exemption, giving the Attorney General rulemaking authority, and preserving district court review. Senator Carson supported the amendment and said it clarified that the bill focused on business-to-business and business-to-government equipment rather than retail consumer products. The amendment was adopted 35-0, and the bill then passed 22-13. The Senate also passed House Bill 1351 on the Healthy School Meals for All program, with Senator Kirkmeyer saying it repays money previously transferred from the state education fund and does not reduce program funding or transparency. House Bill 1353 on state-administered social studies assessments passed 25-10, and House Bill 1359 on school land mineral revenues passed 28-7. The final portion of the transcript shows additional House bills being read and passed, including measures on housing financing, reserve reductions, cash fund transfers, child welfare subsidies, kinship care, judicial discipline, public safety benefits, multimodal transportation, unclaimed property transfers, tobacco education funds, and preschool funding, with several senators recording no votes and Senator Kirkmeyer noting concerns about transparency in cash fund balances during the debate on House Bill 1405.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Education Policy - 02/19/25

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Remember that this test is given to 11th graders.
  • Remember that this test is given to 11th graders.
  • Remember that this test is given to 11th graders.
  • Remember that this test is given to 11th graders.
  • <01:37:21.159> scores your grades your um your test scores your grades your um your test scores
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • So it's a collaborative process, making sure that we have plenty of time for testing and training.
  • Making sure that we have plenty of time for testing and training, and I assume that includes, yeah, I
  • The audit should examine what infrastructure was already built and tested, what evidence there is as
  • The audit should examine what infrastructure was already built and tested, what evidence there is as
  • going to be able, she's not going to sit on a computer and just practice, you know, her DMV test.
Keywords: 987, senate, all
Summary: The committee held an informational hearing on the Governor’s May Revision proposals for labor, public safety/judiciary, and transportation, and no votes were taken. In Part A on labor, the Employment Development Department reviewed proposals for EDD Next document management system funding, updated UI loan interest costs, disability insurance and paid family leave benefit and administration adjustments, WIOA funding changes, UI administrative and benefit changes, school employee benefit adjustments, an EMT training reappropriation, and a technical correction tied to EDD Next. PERB discussed funding tied to AB 28 and AB 1, including litigation-related workload and new jurisdiction over legislative employees. DIR presented proposals for legal unit reclassifications, two major IT modernization projects, a new Cal/OSHA emerging technologies unit, a COIA reappropriation, and trailer bill language on electronic assessment payments and the DWC director salary cap. CalHR proposed additional funding for a consolidated employee assistance program contract, and CalPERS and CalSTRS presented budget adjustments tied to investment costs and state contribution changes. Members focused heavily on UI debt and interest payments, asking the administration for a plan to reduce the outstanding loan and relieve employers. Finance said no specific repayment plan was included in the May Revision, while LAO said the state’s UI tax structure is structurally insufficient and that any debt payoff should be paired with tax-system reform. Senators also questioned EDD Next costs and timelines, PERB’s caseload and staffing needs, and DIR’s emerging technologies unit, with LAO noting that the unit would appear focused on physical workplace safety rather than broader AI labor issues. CalHR said the new EAP contract would consolidate services, improve access to clinicians, and lower costs relative to the current model. CalPERS defended higher external management fees as part of a strategy to pursue higher net returns, while some members pressed for more transparency about private investments; CalSTRS said it was not prepared to address investment-strategy questions at this hearing. Public comment in Part A was dominated by advocates urging support for an immigration enforcement emergency relief fund, along with comments supporting the Jails to Jobs proposal, the Apprenticeship Innovation Fund, and additional PERB funding. The chair noted that many of the immigration-related requests might fall under other committees and said staff would follow up. In Part B, Finance and LAO outlined judicial branch and DOJ May Revision items, including funding for court interpreter services, appellate court security, lactation room implementation delays, courthouse construction reappropriations, and DOJ budget increases. LAO recommended approving the language-access proposal with a report on reducing interpreter cost growth and reducing the General Fund backfill for state court facilities by $10 million on an ongoing basis.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Senate Standing Committee on Banking and Insurance. (3-24-26)

Banking & Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • folks that are coming from out of state and everywhere are still having to take the same licensing test
  • still having to take the<00:08:22.480> same<00:08:22.720> licensing<00:08:23.240> test
  • test that our in-state<00:08:24.920> folks<00:08:25.240> are<00:08:25.320> taking.
  • <00:08:31.200> and<00:08:31.280> that's<00:08:31.480> come without taking the test
  • and that's come without taking the test and that's come some<00:08:32.159> That's<00:08:32.360
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs (04/29/2025)

Election Law and Municipal Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Does this not put, as I read this, it treats in-person registrants who have to do the acid test exactly
  • the same now as absentee ballot registrants who now would also have to pass the acid test?
  • <00:40:22.400> They have to go through the acid test.
  • They have to go through the acid test.
  • Well, we'll see another<01:11:14.480> test<01:11:14.800> of<01:11:14.960> it<01:
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Ways and Means (02/05/2025)

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • and I don't see that the original bill changes that case law either, so it is still going to be a test
  • and I don't see that the original bill changes that case law either, so it is still going to be a test
  • <00:37:38.560> that it laid out a four-part test that it laid out a four-part test that communities
  • <00:37:58.920> as<00:37:59.119> there um is still going to be a test as there um is
  • still going to be a test as there should<00:37:59.520> be<00:38:00.359> uh<00:38:00.480
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Education Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Joint Committee on Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Advisory committee members actively worked on the development of the new pen testing lab and worked with
  • For both of these trainings, there is a small test that we also set up, so at the end of the class they
  • In April, I am anticipating getting my CNA license in the test.
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Joint Committee on Education held an informational hearing at Quincy Public Schools focused on career and technical education (CTE). Committee members said the visit was intended to gather input for statewide CTE legislation, including efforts to expand awareness and access, improve middle school exposure, invest in equipment and facilities, and strengthen ties to workforce boards and labor pathways. Quincy officials described their CTE system as integrated with academics and highlighted support from district, city, and state partners. School leaders outlined Quincy’s CTE offerings, including 15 Chapter 74 programs at Quincy High School and four at North Quincy High School, with about 1,360 students enrolled. Presenters emphasized curriculum aligned to DESE frameworks, work-based learning, industry-recognized credentials, safety training, business electives, dual enrollment and articulation with Quincy College, and grant funding such as Skills Capital and Perkins. They also discussed support liaisons for nontraditional careers and military pathways, advisory committees, and plans to seek Chapter 74 approval for an engineering program at North Quincy, along with new computer science and business offerings. Testimony from MassHire South Shore described workforce partnerships, YouthWorks, job fairs, resume workshops, and the Credit for Life Fair, while the assistant superintendent explained Quincy’s MyCAP planning grant and efforts to build a student-driven college and career readiness system. Three students testified about their pathways in welding, early education and care, and healthcare technology, describing hands-on learning, certifications, clinical or co-op experiences, and future plans for college and careers. Committee members praised Quincy as a model for combining CTE with general education, and the meeting ended with a motion to adjourn and unanimous adjournment.
VT

Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Session - 2026-05-29 - 4:30PM

Vermont Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • dinner when I was a new legislator and you were telling us you had taken an old-fashioned aptitude test
  • Well, the aptitude test said that you Should be a general.
  • I would like to track down this exact aptitude test because it is prophetic.
Keywords: 927, senate, all
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