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FL
Transcript Highlights:
- My name is Shane Story, and I'm a former ESE teacher and administrator from Volusia County.
- I actually started my career 39 years ago as a teacher in Volusia County Schools.
- The teacher would get in her face and tell her she was bad.
- That includes teachers' workplace, and I'm a former teacher, which happens to be schools.
- My background prior to what I currently do was as a former special education teacher.
Committee:
Senate Education Pre-K - 12
Summary:
The Education Pre-K-12 Committee met and took up several education bills. It first heard SJR 1104 on religious expression in public schools, which would place a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot to protect voluntary religious expression by students and school personnel. The sponsor said it would codify existing protections and not require prayer or religious activity, while opponents argued it was unnecessary, could be used to advance Christian nationalism, and could make minority-faith students uncomfortable. The committee reported the resolution favorably.
The committee then approved SB 1738 on educational facilities, as amended, to require the Department of Education to review school facility requirements and recommend design and construction practices intended to improve safety and accountability. It also approved SB 824 on charter schools, as amended, which shifts the bill to a transparency-focused strike-all requiring districts to submit annual reports on unimproved land holdings to the Department of Education. The committee also confirmed appointees on Tabs 7 and 8.
A major portion of the meeting focused on SB 1620 on public education, described by the sponsor as a “school board members’ bill of rights.” The bill would give board members broader access to district documents and staff, limit nondisclosure agreements, clarify attorney representation, and strengthen budget transparency and nepotism rules. Supporters said it would help board members do their oversight jobs, while opponents warned it could undermine superintendents, expose confidential student or employee information, and create confusion in district governance. The committee reported the bill favorably.
Finally, the committee heard SB 1170 on education, as amended, which would allow parents of students with disabilities to request cameras in self-contained classrooms and set district procedures for reviewing those requests. Supporters, including parents and disability advocates, testified that cameras would protect non-speaking and vulnerable students and provide accountability, while one opponent argued the measure should be funded if adopted. The committee reported the bill favorably. The committee also adopted a committee-bill motion for SPB 7036, a broad education package covering school turnaround, literacy, safety, early learning, instruction, and educator pipeline issues, though members raised concerns about a possible state role in producing instructional materials; the bill was reported favorably as a committee bill.
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Tribal and State Relations Committee Jul 22nd, 2026 at 11:00 am
Tribal and State Relations Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- What we do is prepare people, especially like Cheryl had talked about.
- Right now, in order to be a teacher, you have to pass the Praxis exam.
- with the current new teachers.
- And so the retired teachers are able to mentor some of our new teachers and provide them support that
- You have to entice teachers to come with. those two typically isn't enough.
Committee:
Joint Tribal and State Relations Committee
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education Mar 24th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- AUTHORIZES THE USE OF A VALID CERTIFICATE AUTHORIZED BY THE BOARD FOR CERTIFICATION OF TEACHER EXCELLENCE
- RECOGNIZING OUTSTANDING TEACHERS WHO WORK IN CHARTER SCHOOLS AND THE FLORIDA SCHOOL RECOGNITION PROGRAM
- ARE INCREASES FOR TEACHERS WHO DON'T HAVE MONEY TO INCREASE THE OTHERS.
- IN THIS BILL WOULD IT IMPACT THE STAFF OTHER THAN TEACHERS FROM RECEIVING THOSE INCENTIVE FUNDS?
- SO THEY KIND OF WORK AS A TEAM, LIKE THEY ARE COUPLED WITH A LOT OF OUR TEACHERS AND WHEN WE LOOK AT
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Budget Review Subcommittee on Education (8-20-25)
Transcript Highlights:
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Summary:
The Interim Joint Budget Review Subcommittee on Education met and approved the July 15, 2025 minutes before hearing a presentation from the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA/KIA) on student financial aid ahead of the January biennial budget session. KHEAA outlined its role administering 17 state-funded grant and scholarship programs, 529 plans, and outreach services, and emphasized that net lottery proceeds after a $3 million literacy appropriation are statutorily dedicated to student aid. The agency focused on the major need-based programs—College Access Program (CAP), Kentucky Tuition Grant (KTG), and KEES—along with dual credit, Work Ready Kentucky, teacher scholarship, and National Guard tuition assistance. Officials said the new federal FAFSA methodology created a major increase in eligible students, especially for CAP, and thanked lawmakers for adding substantial funding this biennium to meet the higher demand.
Staff explained that CAP is for Pell-eligible, low-income students, while KTG is a need-based grant for students at private Kentucky colleges; both use FAFSA data, but schools verify final eligibility. They said CAP awards are first-come, first-served and that the higher funding level allowed the program to last the full 21-month application cycle in FY 2024-2025, compared with much shorter periods in earlier years. KHEAA reported about $232 million spent on CAP for roughly 72,000 students last year, with current applications running about 10% ahead of the prior year. Members asked about the difference between applicants and recipients, the effect of lower lottery revenues, and whether recent federal legislation would affect state aid; KHEAA said it does not expect major impacts on grants and scholarships, though student loan changes could affect graduate students.
The committee also discussed KEES and dual credit. KHEAA said KEES has been fully funded since its creation and that its forecast was within $76,000 of actual need last year. For dual credit, staff said a recent bill consolidated work-ready dual credit and career/technical education under one scholarship program, and KHEAA will seek growth funding because participation and costs continue to rise. The agency said FY 2025 dual credit spending reached $26.4 million across dual credit and work-ready funding, requiring transfers from Work Ready Kentucky to keep dual credit fully funded. Members asked about transferability of dual credit hours and whether the program reduces later college costs; KHEAA said it does not have hard data on every credit transfer, but it does see higher bachelor’s completion rates and lower student debt, suggesting positive effects. No votes were taken beyond approving the minutes.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Jun 3rd, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Sergeant-at-Arms will prepare the chamber and bring in the absent members.
- Our teachers, their wages have not kept up with other college graduates.
- Than our teachers, today, a California teacher earns just 76 cents for every dollar that their similarly
- Let's pay our teachers and essential school staff what they deserve.
- We wouldn't accept schools without teachers or fire stations without water.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Texas lawmakers are standing with our Texas teachers.
- As again, in our teacher surveys across the state for our over 370,000 teachers, safety is the number
- teacher input through a very rigorous process that established the top goals of our teachers across
- In our state and to stand tall for our Texas teachers. Mr.
- It's in line with the Teacher Vacancy Task Force recommendations.
Bills:
SJR12 , SCR39 , SB27 , SB29 , SB241 , SB406 , SB414 , SB464 , SB568 , SB578 , SB609 , SB660 , SB689 , SB693 , SB785 , SB857 , SB879 , SB921 , SB922 , SB955 , SB985 , SB993 , SB996 , SB1008 , SB1035 , SB1036 , SB1059 , SB1098 , SB1120 , SB1122 , SB1147 , SB1188 , SB1197 , SB1209 , SB1227 , SB1245 , SB1267 , SB1307 , SB1321 , SB1332 , SB1386 , SB1396 , SB1453 , SB1484 , SB1494 , SB1536 , SB1537 , SB1596 , SB1610 , SB1664 , SB1741 , SB1814 , SB1822 , SB1841 , SB1948 , SB2065 , SB2155 , SB2188 , SB2230 , SB2406 , SB2407
Summary:
The Senate convened with a quorum present, heard an invocation, and approved the previous day’s journal. The chamber then adopted Senate Resolution 358 honoring the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on its 10th anniversary, with senators highlighting the university’s growth, medical school, research expansion, and role in serving South Texas. The Senate also adopted Senate Resolution 368 honoring outgoing Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp, with numerous senators praising his long public career, leadership in higher education, and statewide impact. Senate Resolution 361 recognizing Texas HBCU Day and Senate Resolution 362 recognizing Denton County Days at the Capitol were also adopted, along with other routine recognitions and gubernatorial appointments being read into the record.
The Senate then took up several bills. Committee Substitute Senate Bill 27, relating to rights and support for public school educators, was debated and amended to shorten vacancy posting requirements, allow bilingual certification candidates to retake only failed test sections, give teachers more flexibility with paid leave, clarify classroom removal procedures, and ensure parents are informed of appeal rights. The bill passed to engrossment, the three-day rule was suspended, and it was finally passed unanimously. Senate Joint Resolution 12, proposing a constitutional amendment to establish a parent’s right to direct a child’s education, was also brought up and passed to engrossment after a contested suspension vote.
The Senate next passed Committee Substitute Senate Bill 1741, which would require reporting of foreign funding at public universities, bar gifts from adversarial governments, and require training and reporting systems to prevent foreign influence and intellectual property theft in higher education. Committee Substitute Senate Bill 29, the so-called “Dexit” bill, was debated at length for its corporate governance changes, including codifying the business judgment rule and altering internal corporate litigation and records rules; it passed to engrossment, the three-day rule was suspended, and it was finally passed by a 30-1 vote. Senate Bill 857, allowing law enforcement discretion to tow vehicles driven by unlicensed or uninsured drivers, passed after discussion of towing abuses during flooding and disaster conditions. Committee Substitute Senate Bill 1536, requiring dementia and Alzheimer’s training for certain guardians, passed with broad support, and Senate Bill 922, addressing delayed electronic disclosure of sensitive medical test results so physicians can discuss them first, was taken up and passed to engrossment as the chamber continued through its calendar.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Forty Five - Wednesday, April 1 - Afternoon Session
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Teachers brought this to you, and you recognized you valued that a teacher would be with you in presenting
- And by the definition of our Constitution, or by definition, a teacher means any teacher, teacher secretary
- , substitute teacher, supervisor, principal, supervising principal, substitute teacher, supervisor, principal
- But as a teacher, you want to protect children.
- But as a teacher, you want to protect children.
Summary:
The House first established a quorum after a brief roll call and a chamber introduction of Doug Pitt and Crystal Simon of Care to Learn, an organization described as serving students’ basic needs and esteem-building across Missouri. The body then moved through House Bills for Perfection, Informal, taking up several measures focused on public safety, housing, broadband, historic preservation, adoption, regional planning, and school safety.
House Bill 2848, creating the offense of masked intimidation, was debated and advanced after members discussed examples ranging from harassment at homes to historical hooded intimidation and concerns about whether the bill could affect ICE agents; the sponsor said it would not apply to lawful duties. House Committee Substitute for House Bill 1791, dealing with faster building permit timelines to help address housing costs and disaster recovery, was amended to require code-enforcement certification for nationally recognized codes and then perfected and printed despite concerns from some members about local government capacity. House Committee Substitute for House Bill 2465, allowing sole proprietors and very small businesses to buy group health coverage outside the ACA framework, was also adopted and perfected and printed.
House Committee Substitute for House Bill 2711 reduced the assessment rate for broadband infrastructure investment and drew extended debate over whether the tax break should apply to upgrades within existing territories or only to expansion into underserved areas; an amendment clarifying that the incentive was for expanding fiber and broadband services was adopted, and the bill was perfected and printed. House Bill 3080 restored historic preservation tax credit language that had previously been struck down, with broad support from members citing tornado recovery, downtown revitalization, nonprofit projects, and preservation of historic districts. House Bill 1772 increased state payments for adoption attorneys and separated guardian fees to reduce barriers to adoption, and House Bill 2096 increased state matching funds for regional planning commissions and updated the commission list; both were advanced after supportive testimony about local planning and the need to keep pace with inflation.
Finally, House Committee Substitute for House Bills 2913 and 3228 was presented to protect teachers and other school personnel from liability when reasonably intervening to protect themselves or students during violent incidents, while making intervention permissive rather than mandatory. Members from both parties and several educators spoke in strong support, emphasizing that teachers should not fear discipline or lawsuits for acting to keep children safe. The bill was advanced after discussion about the scope of the teacher definition and whether related issues like school buses should be addressed separately.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Higher Education Committee Apr 7th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- I want to thank the committee staff for the analysis and the work preparing for today's hearing.
- Tony Trigero, on behalf of the California Teachers Association.
- We want to align our remarks with the California Federation of Teachers.
- Tony Trigero on behalf of the California Teachers Association.
- We want to align our remarks with this California Federation of Teachers.
Summary:
The Assembly Higher Education Committee heard a series of bills focused on student access, equity, and campus support services. AB 2660 would codify the CalBridge and ENLACE STEM pipeline programs to help underrepresented students move from high school through Ph.D. and faculty or industry careers; AB 2121 would let community colleges temporarily exclude certain local backfill dollars from the 50% instructional spending law so they can replace lost federal funding for MSI and TRIO programs; and AB 1920 would clarify that students do not lose California College Promise eligibility if they earn a certificate as part of a stackable pathway to an associate degree. AB 1636 would authorize Cerritos College to use voluntary data-sharing agreements with K-12 districts to create ready-to-enroll student records, AB 1845 would add human trafficking training and reporting requirements to campus Title IX-related processes, AB 1784 would extend pregnancy and parenting protections to undergraduate students, AB 2229 would create a CSU reentry support program for stopped-out students, AB 1852 would create a conditional pathway for a Kern County medical school if UC does not act, AB 1928 would allow both an advisor and a support person in campus sexual misconduct proceedings, and AB 2392 would require training before AI tools are deployed to students, faculty, or staff.
Testimony was largely in support of the measures, with authors and witnesses emphasizing student success, equity, and removing administrative barriers. Supporters included community college and university officials, student leaders, advocacy groups, and survivors. AB 2121 drew the most mixed testimony: community college leaders and students supported it as a temporary response to federal cuts, while faculty groups opposed it or raised concerns about weakening the 50% law and the need for the proposal. AB 1852 also drew opposition from the CSU Chancellor’s Office, which argued the proposal could have broader operational and governance implications, though supporters said Kern County’s doctor shortage justified a local solution. AB 1784, AB 1845, and AB 1928 were framed as protections for vulnerable students in pregnancy, trafficking, and sexual misconduct proceedings, respectively, while AB 2392 was presented as a modest training and transparency requirement to accompany AI adoption.
The committee took action on the bills after testimony. Most measures were approved on bipartisan roll calls and re-referred to the appropriate committees, including AB 1636, AB 1784, AB 1845, AB 1920, AB 1928, AB 2229, AB 2392, and AB 2660. AB 2121 and AB 1852 also advanced, though AB 1852 had several members not voting and AB 2121 drew one no vote. The committee also approved a consent calendar that included AB 1591, AB 2203, and AB 2572, and members were invited to add on to bills after the votes.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Higher Education and Workforce Development Apr 7th, 2026
Higher Education and Workforce Development
Transcript Highlights:
- So I'm committed to carving out, at the very least, teachers and social workers and people who are of
- So I'm committed to carving out, at the very least, teachers and social workers and people who are of
- I got a job right away because I was prepared well.
- Teachers being another—I know we've talked a lot about that—but I think a lot of the teacher programs
- before the state passed the teacher pay increase would have been close to failing, if not failing.
Summary:
The Committee on Higher Education and Workforce Development heard two bills. House Bill 3221, sponsored by Rep. Castile, would bar state funds from supporting higher education degree programs that the federal government designates as low-earning, with the Coordinating Board for Higher Education reviewing the federal list and reporting impacts. The sponsor framed it as taxpayer accountability and return on investment, while many committee members and witnesses argued it was premature, lacked data, and could harm essential but lower-paid fields such as education, social work, early childhood education, counseling, and the arts. Supporters said the bill would mirror federal policy and affect only a small number of programs; opponents warned it could discourage universities from offering needed programs and would not account for long-term career outcomes or transferable skills. No vote was taken, and the sponsor said the bill was still a work in progress.
Testimony in support of HB 3221 came from a lobbyist for FGA Action and others who said federal law is already moving in this direction and cited a small number of affected programs. Opposition came from representatives of independent colleges, community colleges, and other witnesses who said the federal rules are still being developed, the earnings test is based on a limited snapshot, and some low-wage programs serve important workforce needs or lead to later advancement. Several members asked for more information on the federal list, the number and demographics of affected students, and possible unintended consequences for rural schools and workforce development.
The committee then heard House Bill 3416, sponsored by Rep. Bosley, which would create the Strengthening HBCUs Fund and direct a portion of gaming and classroom trust revenues to Lincoln University and Harris-Stowe State University for capital improvements and related support. The sponsor said the bill is intended to address historic underfunding of HBCUs and align Missouri with similar efforts in other states and at the federal level. Lincoln University President John Mosley testified in support, describing recent growth, major campus projects, and the need for additional infrastructure funding without increasing debt. Committee members asked about the funding amounts, whether Lincoln receives any special state support, and how the money would be distributed. No opposition testimony was heard, and the committee adjourned after the HB 3416 hearing without taking a vote.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Oklahoma Education Commission Feb 26th, 2026
Oklahoma Education Commission
Transcript Highlights:
- that can train other teachers.
- Are you prepared to do kind of the things we're asking?
- After the podcast, he also, you know, shared that that is being done for teachers, too.
- And I'm so glad he didn't say that. is being done for teachers, too.
- The same survey could be, you know, shared for teachers.
Committee:
House Oklahoma Education Commission
Summary:
The meeting focused primarily on planning for an upcoming AI symposium and related commission work. Members reviewed nomination and registration timelines, attendance categories, site logistics, and microcredential requirements for participants. They discussed the symposium’s structure, including slots for K-12, higher education, career tech, libraries, tribal groups, and innovation grant recipients, and noted that the event would likely be held in early June with a follow-up planning meeting on April 2. The group also discussed launching a newsletter via Substack and publishing a monthly podcast to share updates and build public awareness.
A major portion of the discussion centered on School AI and a proposed $45 million AI initiative. Members described School AI pilot activity at OCCC and broader plans to work with K-12, career tech, higher education, and libraries, while emphasizing privacy, data governance, and the need for local training and agency-level negotiation. The $45 million proposal, referenced as House Bill 1782, would create a revolving fund, an advisory council, and broad allowable uses including tools, professional development, curriculum, research, student programs, infrastructure, and public outreach. Representative Williams said the bill was moving through the House appropriations process and that the goal was to keep the funding intact.
The group also raised concerns about other AI-related proposals and initiatives, including three bills by Representative Cody Maynard and the Oklahoma AI Roundtable, which some members viewed skeptically because of its paid membership model. A podcast episode on ethics and legal issues in AI was previewed, including a controversial example about using AI to survey students for safety risks; members agreed the example was hypothetical but potentially sensitive. The meeting ended with broader discussion of workforce needs, especially nursing and corrections education, including efforts to expand LPN/RN pathways, address certification costs, and connect training to rural health and reentry programs.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate Chamber Jan 27th, 2026 at 11:14 am
New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Highly trained teachers, artists, and professional pianists.
- She is the FFA advisor and agricultural science teacher in Bernalillo High School.
- She's been a teacher there for five years and has impacted all of her students' lives and as a mother
- She's the national FFA teacher ambassador.
- Just be prepared. It's going to take a little time for us to do that.
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- promoting economic growth and promoting workforce success, making sure that young people are fully prepared
- promoting economic growth and promoting workforce success, making sure that young people are fully prepared
- And so this is just trying to help our school employees, teachers, any coaches, everybody who works in
- We anticipate in the preparation of support that some of these parents will have their own literacy issues
- We anticipate in the preparation of support that some of these parents will have their in the preparation
Committee:
House Education
Summary:
The House Education Committee met on March 24, 2026, with a quorum present and announced that HB 690 would not be heard. The committee first advanced HB 350, which would extend the grades served by Ecole Ponashan in Terrebonne Parish from pre-K through 4th grade to 8th grade; members spoke in support of the school’s role in French immersion, Cajun heritage, and local educational access, and the bill was reported favorably without objection. HB 434, which shifts certain probationary employment authority over school bus operators from school boards to superintendents, also received favorable passage without objection, with support from the Louisiana Association of School Superintendents.
The committee then considered HB 445 on the Louisiana STEM Advisory Council. The bill would move the STEM Commission from the Board of Regents to Louisiana Works, reduce and reorganize membership, and cut the number of meetings from four to two while keeping funding in place. Supporters said the change would better align the council with workforce needs and economic development, while members asked about the loss of some education representatives and the continued role of employers and K-12 stakeholders. After discussion, the bill was reported favorably. HB 386, which would allow local school districts to let locally authorized charter schools operate as their own local education agency under district rules, was also reported favorably after extensive discussion of charter types, LEA status, federal funding, special education liability, and the difference between local and state authorization.
HB 363, which would let students enrolled in virtual schools participate in extracurricular activities and athletics at their zoned public school, drew strong support from members and testimony from students and families. Witnesses described the bill as a fairness measure that would give online students the same opportunity to try out for sports and activities as home study students, subject to the same eligibility rules, and the bill was reported favorably. HB 256, clarifying that school employees are mandatory reporters and subject to existing DCFS training requirements, was also reported favorably, with members emphasizing child protection and the need to simplify reporting obligations. Finally, HB 272, which expands eligibility for the READ literacy program to students in D- and F-rated schools, was supported by the sponsor, Scholastic, and literacy advocates who cited Florida data showing improved reading outcomes and stronger family engagement; members raised questions about the fiscal note, parent literacy, and program overlap, but the bill was reported favorably. The committee then adjourned.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- It requires a uniform curriculum for teacher preparation to include autism and other neurodevelopmental
- The curriculum for teacher preparation must include autism and other neurodevelopmental disabilities
- and requires teacher preparation programs to offer the autism microcredential for one credit toward degree
- For us, A, not being prepared, I'm going to ask a question. So how are your service... ...prepared.
- preparation courses.
Committee:
Senate Appropriations
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Jan 5th, 2026
California Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- a pro tem with the experience and the empathy to be there to help the people of the Golden State prepare
- The first is preparation.
- She’s prepared. She knows the pros and cons, and she won’t be fooled by the rope-a-dope.
- I attended a state preschool program and was blessed to have teachers who invested in my own personal
- Teachers like Mrs. Dolphonso, who took In my own personal success. Teachers like Mrs.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Higher Education Feb 19th, 2025
Appropriations Committee on Higher Education
Transcript Highlights:
- of career and technical education programs and a variety of literacy programs that are intended to prepare
- technology diplomas are those non-college credit offerings at the district technical colleges that prepare
- Time and effort required to, you know, a student-to-teacher ratio, for example.
- To hire a chemistry teacher, you may be competing against industry.
- Certainly if you're looking for a chemistry teacher or a physics teacher, the university is too, or other
Summary:
The Appropriations Committee for Higher Education met to review Florida’s workforce and Florida College System funding models as part of budget planning. Chair Harrell opened by emphasizing the state’s growing focus on technical education and workforce pathways, and the committee first heard from Tara Goodman of the Department of Education on district workforce education. Goodman explained the programs funded through district workforce dollars, including career certificates, applied technology diplomas, registered apprenticeship, and adult general education, and described the model’s reliance on lagged enrollment, program cost weights, local tuition offsets, and supplemental factors such as disability services, GED testing, and minimum funding for small rural districts. She also noted federal support through Perkins and WIOA and said the model is used to determine unmet need and guide appropriations. In response to questions, she said health care programs are generally among the higher-cost offerings and may be supplemented by pipeline funds.
The committee then heard from Kathy Hebda, Chancellor of the Florida College System, on the college system’s funding model. Hebda described the main funding sources, including the program fund, student success incentive funds, pipeline funds, tuition and fees, and performance-based incentives, and explained that the current model was developed by the 28 college presidents under legislative direction. She said the model uses a three-year average FTE, weights workforce enrollment more heavily than non-workforce enrollment, gives significant weight to completions, includes a small-college factor and regional cost differentials, and also provides targeted funding to bring colleges up to a floor based on per-FTE funding. Senators asked about colleges below the target, cost differences among programs, faculty salaries, and health insurance costs; Hebda said the model is meant to provide flexible operating dollars that colleges can use for those expenses, but specific salary and benefit decisions are left to the institutions.
Seminole State College President Georgia Lorenz also testified in support of the college funding model, saying it holds institutions accountable for enrollment and completions, can be adjusted to reflect state priorities like workforce, and addresses differences in size and regional costs. No bills were voted on, and the committee adjourned after brief closing remarks thanking Seminole State College and the presenters.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- right for our teachers, our tier 2<01:22:01.440><c> teachers.
- </c> 2 teachers. 2 teachers. Senator<01:22:03.840><c> Lucero.
- city hall, and the teachers brought were very prepared with the PowerPoint.
- About 70,000 are licensed teachers, some are aspiring teachers or retired teachers, and I believe it's
- Or teacher pension.
Committee:
Senate Education Finance
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Community Affairs Mar 25th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- MANY OF THEM ARE TEACHERS.
- HOW WOULD WE FEEL IF A TEACHER HUNG THAT IN THE CLASSROOM.
- THAT DOESN'T MEAN HE CAN GO INTO THE CLASSROOM AND CALL HIS TEACHER UNNAMED.
- PLEASE BE PREPARED TO COME UP AND SPEAK. JOHN HARRIS, YOU ARE COMING UP? ANITA WILL BE ON DECK.
- PREPARING BATTERIES AFTER VEHICLE COLLISION.
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- Well, teachers make that determination?
- She said the question is if something is really important and we can help teachers and train teachers
- Schools are meant to prepare young people for citizenship, and that preparation includes learning how
- I'm a teacher here in Cheyenne.
- </c><01:32:30.159><c> or</c> appreciate firefighters or teachers or appreciate firefighters or teachers
Committee:
House Education
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Labor, Veterans and Military Affairs Jan 28th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Oh, I really didn't come prepared for much. That's about it for me. Thank you.
- And so I'm going to read off from some of the notes that she sent in preparation for this.
- Richard with the American Federation of Teachers New Mexico. We're here in support of this bill.
- The one that you've written is what happens if the teacher is not going to be teaching as a result of
- And then, Madam Chair, an expert, which could potentially pass down to our students and teachers and
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- in ensuring that every classroom in Hawaii is led by a qualified and well-prepared teacher.
- </c><00:04:51.120><c> teacher.
- </c><00:04:51.960><c> At</c> qualified and well-prepared teacher.
- At qualified and well-prepared teacher.
- </c> retired teacher from Red Hill. retired teacher from Red Hill.