Video & Transcript Research : 'private schools'

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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EDU Public Hearing 03-18-2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • school psychologist? school psychologist?
  • >> Well, charter schools. Anybody from charter school? >> Nobody here is from charter schools.
  • from<01:44:55.679> the private school scholarships but from the private school scholarships
  • possible school closures? possible school closures?
  • So schools.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Taxes Committee Meeting - 2025-04-29

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • School board rules in general allowed school workers to apply for UI before; however, they were denied
  • That's the school district, and I won't name all the alphabet soup that we have for school districts.
  • My school district, where I live, does the summer school for the school districts around it, so their
  • ESPs are in schools; they make up the fabric of our schools.
  • Talk to any school and ask them about their hourly school workers.
Bills: HF1049
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education May 13th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • They sit in the classroom with college students, not just with their high school peers. school classmates
  • If private companies want to do that, fine, but we're talking about our public schools.
  • people to all of these schools.
  • This is a school district open enrollment charter school or district or charter school employee may not
  • This simply does not happen outside of school. I'm heavily involved in my children's schooling.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Education Policy Committee Feb 18th, 2026

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

Local and Private - Room 210, 30 March, 2026; 11:00 AM

Local and Private

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's really the 1% assessment that's new for the local and private authority in particular.
Summary: The discussion focused on a bill concerning a district or body politic’s authority to own property, enter into contracts, and incorporate a district under existing public improvement law. A senator questioned the bill’s references to DMV and the general law, and staff explained that most of the bill simply incorporates authority already found in Title 19, Chapter 31, with the main new element being a 1% assessment for local and private authority purposes. Members noted the bill had just been received that morning and was unfamiliar to some of them. An amendment was offered to strike lines 161 through 170, which staff said was a conforming change to make a repealer work properly. The committee adopted the amendment, then voted that the title was sufficient to pass as amended. The bill was reported out of committee, with no opposition recorded.
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

Local and Private - Room 210, 26 March, 2026; 9:30 AM

Local and Private

Summary: The committee took up several local and appropriations-related bills. House Bill 4110 would create a reserve/trust fund arrangement tied to health-related financing and state account management, with discussion focused on how the money would be deposited and used. House Bill 4111 concerned Hancock County and the Hancock County Tourism Bureau, with testimony indicating the county did not want the bureau dissolved and instead wanted it retained. House Bill 4113 would direct funds to the Gulf Coast Tourism Commission, and House Bill 4115 involved a local matter in Hattiesburg related to a 30-year municipal issue. The committee also considered House Bill 4130, which related to Yazoo City and an industrial development project, and House Bill 4134, which would authorize Mississippi Industrial Development Authority action involving an airport-related project in Lowndes County. House Bill 4135 addressed Waynesboro and a municipal low-income housing or development issue. Throughout the discussion, members repeatedly invited questions and indicated the bills were being advanced without objection. No substantive opposition was recorded in the transcript, and the exchanges were brief and procedural. The overall action was to move the bills forward after limited explanation of each measure's local purpose and funding or governance implications.
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

Local and Private - Room 210, 24 March, 2026; 10:45 AM

Local and Private

Summary: The committee took up a long list of local and special-purpose bills, mostly involving county or municipal utility districts, repealers on local taxes, and small local appropriations. Early actions included House Bill 2210 for Bolivar County, creating a utility district in Choctaw for sewer operations and maintenance, and Senate Bill 3408, which by committee substitute renamed the Yazoo economic partnership to the Yazoo Economic Alliance and clarified its economic and industrial development powers. Members asked whether the Yazoo entity already existed and whether it could own property; the sponsor said it was already in statute and the change was primarily a name update with added flexibility to share and contribute funds to projects. Both bills passed without opposition. The committee also approved Senate Bill 3409 for Lowndes County, authorizing the Mississippi Industrial Fire and Rescue District to serve as the site of a megasite around the Golden Triangle Regional Airport Authority. Other local measures passed included House Bill 1599 extending Brandon’s prepared-food sales tax repealer for tourism and parks, House Bill 1811 for Noxubee County extending justice court assessment repealers for county capital improvements, and several Humphreys County bills authorizing one-time contributions to the Fannie Lou Hamer Cancer Foundation and the Belzoni Humphreys Development Foundation. Additional bills extended or renewed local tourism, parks, and recreation taxes in Belzoni, Oakland, Ripley, Southaven, and Fulton, and authorized or extended local court-cost assessments in Prentiss County. Later, the committee approved House Bill 1870 for Bolivar County, creating a sewer district and allowing the county to operate it, noting it duplicated the earlier Senate bill at the senator’s request. It also passed House Bill 1887 authorizing a $5,000 contribution to the Benevolent Protection of the Elks World Hill Lodge, House Bill 4000 for Grenada allowing construction, acquisition, and maintenance of wastewater collection and treatment systems, and House Bill 4112 for Tupelo restoring funds for the Northeast Mississippi Regional Wastewater District after an unintended consequence of a prior grocery tax change. Finally, Senate Bill 3410 was added off-agenda to authorize Brandon and the West Rankin utility system to enter into an agreement with a local operator for use of treated water for industrial purposes; a member asked who would approve the contract, and the sponsor said the board and city would approve it. All measures discussed were reported out or passed, generally by unanimous or voice vote, with no recorded opposition.
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

Local and Private - Room 210, 4 March, 2026; 9:00 AM

Local and Private

Summary: The committee took up Senate Bill 3230, which would authorize the board of trustees of Greenwood Laflur Hospital to petition for relief from debt and financial obligations, including filing Chapter 9 bankruptcy. The sponsor explained that the measure was being moved quickly because the hospital needed Chapter 9 authority so another hospital could take over operations, and described the bill as largely a formality. No additional questions or testimony were recorded. A motion was made for a do pass recommendation, and the committee voted in favor without opposition. The motion carried, and the committee rose and reported the bill onward.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

JDC DEFER, JDC-EDU Public Hearings 02-12-2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • >> Thank you. >> Private schools, Mr.
  • How does this affect private other private schools that don't have, you know, race as a selection?
  • Any private school, please? >> Think of a problem.
  • >> I mean, same thing with the private schools.
  • >> I mean, same thing with the private schools.
Bills: SB3123
Summary: The Judiciary Committee took up three measures in decision-making. SB 2678, which would create a Judiciary working group to improve family court processes and youth access to legal representation in the child welfare system, was recommended for passage with amendments. The amendments would clarify that members with lived experience are those who have navigated the state child welfare system, replace an actively serving guardian ad litem with a former GAL, allow co-chairs to invite additional experts, and provide compensation for lived-experience members. The committee report would also recommend a $20,000 appropriation, and the motion passed without objection. SB 2528, a Campaign Spending Commission proposal to expand the partial public financing program and raise expenditure limits, was also recommended for passage with amendments and adopted without objection. The committee’s changes would increase the public-funds match to 4:1, raise the maximum public funding available to 20% for statewide executive offices and 25% for legislative and certain county offices, blank out the appropriation in the bill, and instead recommend $7.2 million in the committee report. Technical amendments would also rename the program for consistency and set the bill’s effective date to March 22, 2075. In a joint Judiciary/Education hearing, SB 3123 drew extensive testimony in support from the Governor’s office, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools, Hawaiian Council, Kamehameha Schools, and many private-school and community representatives. Supporters said the bill would clarify that donor-funded scholarships, grants, and tuition-free educational programs are charitable gifts rather than contractual obligations, giving donors and schools greater certainty and preserving educational access. Some members questioned whether the bill could affect Kamehameha Schools’ admissions practices or allow schools to avoid donor conditions; witnesses responded that the measure is intended to clarify donor intent, not change admissions, and that an opt-out clause would preserve the ability to create contractual agreements if the parties choose. The discussion ended with the bill still under consideration, with no final vote reflected in the transcript excerpt.