Video & Transcript : 'kindergarten readiness' :
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ID
Transcript Highlights:
- think helps maybe transition for the students from a chaotic morning, maybe buses, hallways, into a ready-to-learn
- There are other jobs classified, kindergarten. These are, you know, difficult to explain.
- Chairman, but just in addressing the substitute motion, I'm ready to roll.
- send House Bill 728 to the floor with a due pass, and the secretary will call the roll when she is ready
Committee:
House Education
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 03/03/26
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- the Department of Education, and it's a community education program for children birth through kindergarten
- the Department of Education, and it's a community education program for children birth through kindergarten
- the Department of Education, and it's a community education program for children birth through kindergarten
- learning programs and resources, things like Head Start, early childhood family education, pre-kindergarten
- awareness and readiness um while maintaining<01:26:03.840><c> alignment</c><01:26:04.239><c> with</c
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Minnesota House repasses amended veterans bill, SF1959 5/17/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- But from my time as a kindergartener to fifth grade, I was the main translator for my community.
- /c><00:14:11.440><c> time</c><00:14:11.600><c> as</c><00:14:11.760><c> a</c><00:14:11.920><c> kindergartener
- But from my time as a kindergartener on.
- But from my time as a kindergartener to<00:14:12.720><c> fifth</c><00:14:12.959><c> grade,</c><00:14:
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session 5/17/25 - Part 2
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- But from my time as a kindergartener to fifth grade, I was the main translator for my community.
- But from my time as a kindergartener to fifth grade, I was the main translator for my community.
- But from my time as a kindergartener to fifth grade, I was the main translator for my community.
- tried to get some language across the finish line that was bipartisan and our conference committee was ready
- tried to get some language across the finish line that was bipartisan and our conference committee was ready
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- that this could be accomplished by having comprehensive and age-appropriate sex education from kindergarten
- Additionally, what...” by having comprehensive and age-appropriate sex education from kindergarten through
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 12th, 2026 at 01:34 pm
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- And the idea here is that we want to have a goal of closing project funding gaps of ready projects. rather
- So we're looking at a lot of shovel-ready projects that just need some gap funding.
- Large projects could have their own process and be streamlined because they're usually more ready to
- Chairman, because I know the LESC members are ready. Okay, thanks. Great.
- Representative Johns, you know, you made a talk about birth rates, but the largest Kindergarten class
Committee:
House House Appropriations & Finance
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Feb 27th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- The committee is ready.
- The committee is ready for business. First on our agenda today will be the general fund update. Mr.
- so if you just please state your name and identify yourself for the record and proceed when you're ready
- Peterson, please come forward, state your title, and proceed when you're ready.
- Please come forward, state your name and title, and proceed when you're ready. Thank you, Mr.
Summary:
The committee met to review the general fund update and several budget-setting items, with staff explaining how to track the latest “green sheet” online and how JFAC actions were affecting the FY 2026 and FY 2027 bottom lines. Members also discussed whether work group progress should be summarized more broadly, but leadership emphasized that work groups were intended to remain independent and that members should consult analysts directly rather than have a running public summary of each group’s internal deliberations.
The committee then acted on a series of agency budgets. It approved the Idaho State Tax Commission enhancement package after revising it to remove the chief operating officer personnel item and adopted language limiting use of $550,000 for fast tax collection vendor payments, with any unused amount reverting to the general fund. It also approved supplemental and enhancement requests for the Office of Information Technology Services, including Chinden campus furnishings, E-Core grant staffing and funding, enterprise security/firewall upgrades, the IT modernization transfer of 58 positions from Health and Welfare, and a one-time cash transfer language item to cover transition-year health insurance costs. The Military Division’s request for $120,000 for Office of Emergency Management indirect cost recovery was approved, but an alternate motion to also add $190,800 for the state education assistance program failed, and the original motion was later held in committee. The Industrial Commission and Public Utilities Commission budgets were both advanced with dedicated-fund increases for IRIS maintenance, training, disability fund needs, OITS hardware, and replacement laptops.
The Department of Fish and Game budget was also advanced, with approval of a large package of dedicated and federal funds for fishery habitat projects, Good Neighbor Authority work, hatchery and laboratory inflation, temporary employees, wolf depredation response, communications, and replacement items, along with reappropriation authority for prior-year funds. The committee then took up the Department of Health and Welfare Division of Public Health Services, where competing motions focused on the Idaho Home Visiting Program, immunization assessment fund restoration, laboratory testing, HIV and hepatitis prevention, suicide prevention, and moving the home visiting program to Early Learning and Development. Both the substitute motion and the original motion failed after split votes in the House and Senate committees, leaving that budget held for later action.
Finally, the committee considered new language for the State Controller and State Treasurer to require monthly reconciliation of cash balances between Luma and TARS from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2026, with a report due by the fall interim JFAC meeting and documentation retained for audit. Members discussed the need for accurate cash reconciliation and the resources available to the Controller’s office, but no final action was taken before adjournment. The chair announced upcoming budget-setting meetings and reminded members to complete work group motions by the end of the day.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Jun 18th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Ready, begin. Members, please place your right hand over your heart. Ready, begin.
- Ready, begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag.
- the floor, my wife Allie, our three-and-a-half-year-old Aidan, and our five-year-old, starting kindergarten
- We have a few more guest intros that are not ready yet, so we're going to come back to that.
Summary:
The Assembly convened after a quorum call, opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, approved procedural motions, and recognized several guests and honorees, including CAUSE leadership academy participants, retiring FCMAT CEO Michael Fine, a Capitol intern, environmental leaders celebrating Black Conservation Week, family members of members, and NASA astronaut Captain Victor Glover Jr. The body also took up a number of routine file items and committee referral requests, with several bills referred to committees by unanimous consent and multiple items passed or retained on file.
The main floor debate centered on ACR 214, the Juneteenth resolution. Members from the Black Caucus and other caucuses spoke in support, describing Juneteenth as both a celebration of emancipation and a reminder that freedom and equality remain unfinished work. Speakers emphasized Black history, civil rights, solidarity across communities, and ongoing issues such as education, housing, health, incarceration, and economic inequality. The resolution was adopted by voice vote after 66 coauthors were added.
The Assembly also considered AB 2285 on blockchain staking and crypto regulation. The author argued the bill would provide consumer protections and clear rules for banks, credit unions, and crypto exchanges, while an opponent warned it could weaken securities oversight and consumer safeguards. The bill passed 45-1, and the author requested immediate transmission to the Senate. Later, SB 1036 on mitigation fee credits for redevelopment passed 55-0 after brief support for clarifying fee rules and reducing duplicative costs.
The chamber then adopted the second-day consent calendar, including resolutions for Women’s Equality Day and the International Day of Yoga, along with several Senate bills, all by unanimous or near-unanimous votes. The Assembly announced it would not meet on Friday, June 19, would reconvene Monday, June 22 at 1 p.m., and then adjourned.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Special Committee on Rural Issues Jan 14th, 2026
Special Committee on Rural Issues
Transcript Highlights:
- Gentlemen, you may proceed when you are ready. Good afternoon, committee members.
- Every pre-kindergarten through fourth grade class visits the garden monthly for hands-on instruction.
- I do have my dairy goats at home that are just grazing away, but I don't think at this point we're ready
- Representative, you may begin when you are ready.
- Representative, you may begin when you are ready. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, members.
Committee:
House Special Committee on Rural Issues
NV
Nevada 2025 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Jun 1st, 2025 at 12:00 pm
Nevada Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- circumstances; revises the eligibility of existing grants supporting early childhood literacy and readiness
- SB 460 is now ready for final consideration.
- Motion carries SB 460 is now ready for final consideration.
- She added that the bill makes significant investments in pre-K and pre-kindergarten, literacy programs
- Senate Bill No. 460 is ready to be immediately transmitted to the Assembly.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- doctors and they sent us to a... drugstore where, by the time we got there, they had a prescription ready
- certain contexts, are being taught at a time when children may not have the maturity or emotional readiness
- Advocate spending valuable class time teaching all children about sexual activity starting in kindergarten
- lot of school nurses right now in all types of schools charter schools schools and public schools ready
- My mother was a college student who was not married, wasn't ready to have her family. 792 This is something
Committees:
Senate Education , Senate Education K-16
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education Mar 11th, 2025
Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education
Transcript Highlights:
- Senator Gates, are you ready? I was born ready. Outstanding. All right.
- My husband and four sons all went through the public school systems in Oklahoma County, kindergarten
- And you have to show up and you have to be ready to do what you need to do. So when we work...
- To show up and you have to be ready to do what you need to do.
Summary:
The Appropriations Committee on Pre-K-12 Education met with a quorum present and observed a moment of silence for Senator Geraldine Thompson. The committee first took up CS/SB 102, a bill by Senator Gates directing the Department of Education to develop a workforce credential program for students with autism spectrum disorder or students on a modified curriculum, in coordination with the Florida Center for Students with Unique Abilities and OSHA. Supporters said the bill would help autistic students gain job skills and workplace safety credentials, while an opponent argued the bill should clearly make participation voluntary, expand to other exceptional student groups, include funding, and add stronger accountability. The bill was reported favorably.
The committee then considered SB 166, the Administrative Efficiency in Public Schools bill by Senator Simon. The bill would reduce or remove several state mandates and give districts more flexibility on testing, teacher evaluations, contracts and certification, school board operations, instructional materials timelines, audits, facilities planning, emergency make-up days, federal fund use, and public VPK oversight. Senators asked about the impact on student proficiency, teacher evaluations, and the transfer of public VPK oversight to districts; Simon said the tests would remain but count as 30 percent of the grade, districts would retain flexibility in evaluation measures, and only public VPK would shift to districts. Public testimony was largely supportive, with some speakers praising reduced testing and local control, while one senator cautioned that Florida still has a math proficiency problem. The bill was reported favorably.
Finally, the committee heard CS/SB 296 by Senator Bradley, which would repeal the 2023 statewide mandate requiring later middle and high school start times and return the decision to local districts, while still requiring districts to inform the community about the health, safety, and academic impacts of sleep deprivation and consider later start times. Supporters argued the mandate created transportation, staffing, and scheduling problems and that local control was more practical, while opponents emphasized sleep science and the benefits of later start times for teens. Several senators discussed the tension between research and district resources, and the bill sponsor said the measure preserves the conversation about sleep while allowing local scheduling decisions. CS/SB 296 was reported favorably, and the committee then adjourned.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Ways and Means Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Joint Committee on Ways and Means
Transcript Highlights:
- Kindergarten students with formal early education and care experiences are more likely to succeed in
- Some of these students are learning skills that I couldn't imagine, and they're going to be ready for
- get them ready for high-quality Chapter 74 programming.
- Yep, we're ready. Thank you so much.” “All right. Yep, we're ready. Thank you so much. All right.
- I'm ready to go when they're ready to put me up there. So did Margaret Raymond Driscoll? Yes.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Ways and Means
Summary:
The hearing was a Joint Committee on Ways and Means budget session held in Lawrence focused on the governor’s proposed FY27 education and local aid budget, with remarks from legislative co-chairs, local officials, and education agency leaders. Acting Mayor Giovanni Rodriguez and Superintendent Ralph Carrero emphasized Lawrence’s high-need student population, the importance of Chapter 70 and Student Opportunity Act funding, and the impact of state aid on schools serving many English learners and low-income families. Carrero highlighted Lawrence High School programs such as early college, dual degrees, career pathways, and early childhood classrooms embedded in the high school, while lawmakers introduced themselves and noted the importance of the hearing to their districts.
Acting Secretary of Education Amy Kershaw, Commissioner of Higher Education Noi Ortega, Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Pedro Martinez, and Commissioner of Early Education and Care Amy Kershaw outlined the administration’s FY27 priorities. They described investments in literacy initiatives, universal school meals, student mental health, early college and career pathways, higher education affordability, community college and university student-success supports, preschool expansion, child care subsidies, and workforce supports for early educators. The commissioners also discussed federal funding threats, equity gaps, and the administration’s efforts to improve outcomes for Black and brown students, multilingual learners, students with disabilities, and low-income students.
Members questioned the panel about the local contribution formula study, the final year of Student Opportunity Act implementation, and the need to revisit Chapter 70 funding to better address rising costs such as special education, transportation, and health care. Officials said the local contribution study report is expected by the end of June, with a draft to be shared after data analysis and public comment. Commissioner Martinez said the Student Opportunity Act narrowed funding gaps but more work is needed, and he pointed to a proposed Accelerating Achievement Initiative to support the highest-need schools. Senator Oliveira also raised concerns about Chapter 70 disparities and asked about partnerships with libraries to support literacy, prompting discussion of broader early literacy collaboration.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- Let's go ahead, take a seat, and whenever you're ready. Good afternoon, Chair, members, staff.
- We are ready and very willing to work with Assemblywoman Addis and other key stakeholders on amendments
- AB 1382, Assembly Member Castillo, whenever you’re ready. Thank you. Good afternoon, Mr. Chair.
- AB 1382, Assembly Member Castillo, whenever you’re ready. Thank you. Good afternoon, Mr. Chair.
- Whenever you're ready. When I'm ready? Okay. Great. Well, thank you, Mr.
Committee:
House Judiciary
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Hearing Human Services and Agriculture Committee Mar 26th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- But I would like to invite Panel 1 to come up and take a seat and get comfortable whenever you're ready
- How we're now into school systems that represent nearly 80% of our school-age population, that's kindergarten
- areas have been a big area. systems that represent nearly 80% of our school age population, that's kindergarten
- and other countries that help fill the gap when Mother Nature doesn’t allow for certain crops to be ready
- a public comment for, I would ask a minute or so, but please do come with the microphone if you're ready
Summary:
The joint oversight hearing focused on food insecurity in California and how state and federal nutrition programs, agricultural production, and food distribution systems intersect. Assemblymembers emphasized that many Californians, including farmworkers, seniors, children, and communities of color, remain food insecure despite California’s agricultural abundance. Panelists and members discussed CalFresh, WIC, school meals, Sun Bucks, food banks, and the impact of federal policy changes, including possible nutrition cuts, tariffs, and immigration enforcement, on access to food and the agricultural workforce.
Secretary Karen Ross described CDFA programs aimed at improving access to fresh food and supporting local agriculture, including the senior farmers’ market program, California Nutrition Incentive Program, Healthy Refrigeration Grant Program, Community Food Hubs, Farm to School, urban agriculture, and a proposed tribal food sovereignty program. She said these efforts help connect local producers to consumers, expand healthy food access, and build infrastructure such as refrigeration, mobile markets, and aggregation hubs. Department of Social Services Deputy Director Alexis Fernandez Garcia outlined CalFresh, CFAP, Sun Bucks, CACFP, emergency food programs, and tribal nutrition assistance, noting that CalFresh and related programs significantly reduce poverty and food insecurity, but participation gaps remain for non-English speakers, some Asian American communities, and undocumented households.
PPIC researcher Tess Thorman presented data showing that 13% of California households experienced food insecurity in 2023, with higher rates among households with children and Latino, Black, and other households. She said nutrition programs reduce poverty and food hardship, but federal rules, income thresholds, immigration restrictions, and high living costs limit their reach. Members asked about simplifying applications, improving call center access, increasing outreach in multiple languages, and adjusting benefits for inflation. Officials said the state has used available federal options to streamline enrollment, improve customer service, and target outreach, but many core rules and benefit levels are set federally.
The second panel shifted to food production and market access. A farmer, a UC food systems leader, and a produce distributor described efforts to connect small and medium farms with food banks, schools, universities, and Medi-Cal food-as-medicine programs. They highlighted programs such as Farms Together, the USDA Southwest Regional Food Business Center, Farm to School, food hubs, and climate-smart infrastructure grants as ways to create stable markets for local growers while improving food access. Speakers also raised concerns about land tenure, consolidation, regulatory burdens, labor constraints, and the loss of federal funding, and members discussed whether state investments and Prop. 4 funds could help sustain and expand these efforts.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine the nomination of Howard Lutnick, of New York, to be Secretary of Commerce. Jan 29th, 2025 at 09:15 am
Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- He didn't die that day because he took his son to kindergarten on the Upper East Side, so he wasn't in
- I was taking my son Kyle to his first day of kindergarten, which is why I'm with you today.
- If you will allocate what has already been complied with and what is ready to be built, stand by it with
- I'm glad to hear you're ready to tackle those issues.
- The first round of funding went towards "sustainable, climate-ready infrastructure," and "clean energy
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
Other - PSCOC Dec 11th, 2025
Public School Capital Outlay Oversight Task Force
Transcript Highlights:
- To include design and construction for a kindergarten-sized playground.
- It was completed just recently, and we're ready to make approvals.
- I think that we have to find some way to encourage design firms and districts to be ready to use their
- Going forward, this is something, and as we've discussed with project readiness and timelines, there
- The pre-application readiness tool is a new tool that we've implemented to really help us vet the 83
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session-Day 10, February 20, 2026-PM
Wyoming House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- In the before they start kindergarten.
- Um, ladies and gentlemen, just so you know, supper is in there ready to go for you.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- school counselor, and a young boy came into her office kind of not speaking, had a gun on him, was ready
- of not speaking, had a gun on<00:54:39.359><c> him,</c><00:54:39.920><c> was</c><00:54:40.160><c> ready
- > do</c><00:54:41.200><c> a</c><00:54:41.520><c> shooting</c><00:54:41.920><c> and</c> on him, was ready
- to do a shooting and on him, was ready to do a shooting and she<00:54:42.559><c> she</c><00:54:42.800
- all the way through fifth kindergarten all the way through fifth grade,<01:43:03.920><c> um,</c><01:
Committee:
Senate Education Finance
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Aug 18th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm just about ready to close.
- Members, we are ready to reconvene. Please report to the floor.
- We are ready to reconvene. We are ready to reconvene. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
- Can I please ask that everybody is here and ready to work at 10 a.m.?
- Seeing and hearing no further business, ready to entertain a motion to adjourn.