Video & Transcript Research : 'student representation'

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TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • We have more students coming in.
  • , students like me, and students like us.
  • From unique backgrounds and stories to tell... ...that harm students, students like me, and students
  • Trust our students to think critically.
  • We built a movement led by students, for students, demanding a seat at the table.
Summary: Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (SEAT) held an advocacy event at the Texas Capitol focused on youth participation in policymaking and opposition to recent education-related legislation. Speakers, including student organizers and SEAT leaders, argued that students should have a direct voice in decisions affecting public schools, curriculum, and school governance. Representative Donna Howard briefly attended to support the group, praised their advocacy, and referenced the idea that if young people are not given a seat at the table, they should “bring your own chair.” Several student speakers criticized the newly passed school vouchers bill as a threat to public education and said it would divert resources from public schools. Others opposed bills such as Senate Bill 12 and Senate Bill 13, describing them as harmful to LGBTQ+ students and inclusive education. One speaker also condemned book bans and library censorship, arguing that students need access to diverse books and truthful, inclusive curricula. The speakers framed these issues as matters of student rights, belonging, and free expression. SEAT executive director Cameron Samuels closed by describing the organization’s history of student-led activism against book bans and exclusion from school policymaking. Samuels said the group had distributed challenged books, pursued legal action over blocked internet resources, and delivered a Student Bill of Rights to superintendents and legislators. The event ended without any formal legislative vote or committee action, serving instead as a press conference and advocacy rally urging lawmakers to listen to students.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EDU-HHS, HHS, HHS-TRS Public Hearings 02-11-2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:10:21.519> supports training nursing students which supports training nursing students
  • <00:27:47.279> taking here, we have over 265 students taking here, we have over 265 students
  • All students in DOE. >> Thank you. Really short question.
  • students should be taught that. students should be taught that. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.
  • >> All students in DOE. >> All students in DOE.
Bills: SB3263, SB3261
Summary: The joint Senate Committee on Education and Committee on Health and Human Services heard testimony on several bills related to student health and safety, University of Hawaii programs, and workforce development. For SB 2969, which would appropriate funds for the University of Hawaii to expand and sustain the Maui Wildfire Exposure Study and Maui Health Registry, testimony was overwhelmingly supportive. Witnesses described the ongoing physical and mental health impacts of the August 2023 Maui fires, said the study has identified serious untreated conditions and connected participants to care, and emphasized its role in serving survivors and training students. The committee also heard support from the Department of Health, the Alzheimer’s Association, the American Lung Association, Maui residents, and study staff. No vote was taken during the hearing. The committee then heard SB 2657, which would establish an Alzheimer disease and related dementia research center at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine. University of Hawaii and Alzheimer’s Association representatives supported the bill, saying a local center would improve coordination of existing research, build state capacity, and help Hawaii compete for future NIH designation and federal funding. A family member affected by Alzheimer’s also testified in support, citing the disease’s impact in Hawaii. In response to questions, the university said the proposal would follow a five-year phased plan, with the first year funding used to recruit a senior neuroscientist and staff person, at an estimated cost of about $375,000, and that the effort would still strengthen Hawaii’s research infrastructure even if federal funding is not secured. For SB 2612, which clarifies immunity for Department of Education employees and agents who assist students with medication administration under certain conditions, the Department of Education said the bill is intended to protect volunteers and help ensure students can participate in school activities even when staffing is limited. The committee discussed how volunteers would be selected and whether every school would have someone available, and DOE said schools currently rely on health attendants, nurses, and trained volunteers. The committee also briefly discussed liability language and gross negligence exceptions. The hearing then moved to SB 2412, which would fund a bachelor’s degree program in sign language and sign language interpretation at UH Mānoa with a future master’s pathway. Testimony from interpreters, educators, and university officials emphasized the shortage of interpreters, the need to retain local talent, and the program’s role in building a pipeline; university representatives said the initial request would fund a faculty/staff position as a first step, with additional funding needed later. No final committee action or votes were announced in the transcript.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EDU-EDT, EDU, EDU Public Hearings 02-11-2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • . students. students.
  • Doesn't impact our students. that money. Doesn't impact our students.
  • student? student?
  • I will still go back to we fully support student books and student publishing.
  • books and student support student books and student publishing.<01:18:25.960> We<01:18:26.120
Bills: SB3263, SB3261
Summary: The joint committees heard testimony on Senate Bill 3263, which would create a state-supported endowment for University of Hawaii athletics NIL (name, image, and likeness) funding. University of Hawaii Athletics Director Matt Eliott supported the bill, saying NIL requires both immediate funding and a longer-term sustainable solution. He asked for several changes: lowering the initial endowment target from $10 million to $2 million so the fund could start sooner, allowing NIL reporting by team rather than by individual student-athlete, and clarifying that athletes may choose whether to use an agent, while still allowing certified agents or a parent/guardian if desired. Committee members raised concerns about using taxpayer dollars for athlete compensation, the burden on a small-state budget, and whether the university could realistically raise the required matching funds. Several senators questioned whether the university had a concrete fundraising plan and whether the endowment would meaningfully help UH compete with larger programs. Eliott said UH is already fundraising privately for current NIL obligations, had raised more than $1.6 million toward a $3 million annual goal, and would continue fundraising for both short-term needs and the endowment match. He also said the university is not trying to compete with Power Five schools on the same scale, but to be successful at its own conference level. Members also discussed transparency and privacy, with some senators arguing that if state money is used, the public should know how it is spent, while Eliott said individual student-athlete NIL information should remain private and team-level reporting would be preferable. He confirmed international student-athletes are eligible for NIL and said about 60 to 70 UH athletes are currently participating, with more than 100 expected next year. The discussion also touched on UH’s Mountain West media rights and local TV rights, with Eliott explaining that the conference distribution is expected to remain around $3.5 million and that local TV rights would be negotiated separately. No vote or final action was taken during the portion of the hearing provided.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Education Feb 13th, 2026 at 09:07 am

Senate Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • For our students, for a future educator workforce that reflects the students and provides the highest
  • Student or others.
  • But students do not have that freedom.
  • We have over 400 student athletes.
  • We have over 400 student athletes, roughly 14% of our student population.
Bills: HB30, HB120, HJR1, SB210, SB306
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Education Feb 13th, 2026 at 08:35 am

House Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Our particular interest is in aligning capstone projects with students' IEPs to ensure that students
  • Our particular interest is in aligning capstone projects with students' IEPs to ensure that students
  • or students that are in foster care.
  • student that receives special education.
  • When we looked at student Lexile performance and growth using comparable metrics, New Mexico students
Bills: HB30, HB120, HJR1, SB210, SB306
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Rules Feb 9th, 2026 at 09:11 am

Senate Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • this same constitutional amendment, under current law, a university president gets to pick their own student
  • president from getting to select their own regent, and instead it is just a recommendation from the student
  • body, which is in the current language too in law, that the student body recommends someone to the president
  • So this is just an improvement on that too, to allow students to actually have their own recommendation
  • cannot change your party affiliation for a year prior to your selection, with the exception of the student
Bills: SB238, HJR1, SM21, SM22
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • student-athletes.
  • Allowing homeschool students access to UIL extracurricular activities integrates students from different
  • Allowing homeschool students access to UIL extracurricular activities will mean giving students within
  • Gain them back full-time as full-time students and building a relationship with those students.
  • is for an enrolled student.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Windstorm insurance alone costs $1,341 per student, even with our increased student enrollment this year
  • our students while continuing to meet the state requirements.
  • For students who can achieve certain scores on the PSAT.
  • Of Texas students.
  • of students that is traditionally more difficult to educate.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Education Feb 17th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • , and I was forced to stay there with that student.
  • Bremerton case, where he was praying in public in front of students and with students.
  • It does not say students cannot pray in school.
  • The right to provide for the control of a student.
  • Have you ever met an FFA student that didn't impress you?
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Apr 15th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • What's the charge per student?
  • But adding a non-voting student on the board will give students a seat at the table, enabling them to
  • Students will participate fully in meetings without affecting board board integrity while enhancing student
  • In the interim, we have begun to realize that we really have no idea what some of our students students
  • Being a student can feel overwhelming.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Apr 15th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • That is a huge number of students, as I understand it.
  • The student I mentioned earlier did not need to be referred to an I.T. process; the student didn't have
  • a learning disability; the student simply needed glasses.
  • And just remember that a student who cannot see cannot read. Thank you.
  • is a large number of students given the size of Texas.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill relates to fentanyl prevention and drug poisoning awareness education for students enrolled
  • This bill relates to the compensation and professional representation of prospective student-athletes
  • and student-athletes participating in intercollegiate athletic programs at certain institutions of higher
  • Members, this bill relates to the school district and open enrollment charter school policies regarding student
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Mar 19th, 2025

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs

TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • So we're gonna continue doing. encourage students to attend those universities.
  • Many times students don't have an opportunity to take an elective.
  • We have the students. Yeah, Autumn.
  • We risk all students ability to be successful.
  • We are working on proposals to ensure equal opportunity for all students, protect funding for students
Summary: The meeting was characterized by impactful discussions focused primarily on education and the representation of diverse histories in Texas's curriculum. Notably, Representative Christina Morales advocated for HB178, a bill aimed at ensuring that all Texas high school students have access to Mexican-American and African-American studies as part of their graduation requirements, moving from elective-only status. This bill garnered support from both sides of the aisle, highlighting a cooperative effort to improve educational equity in Texas. Several representatives shared personal stories reflecting on the importance of inclusive education, showcasing the bill's far-reaching implications for students' sense of identity and history.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Education Jan 28th, 2026 at 08:33 am

House Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you, students, for joining.
  • and students attending our higher institutions to select their own representation on these boards.
  • I'm currently a graduate student at NMSU and I've previously been very involved in the student government
  • So to have someone representing the students, by the students, coming from the students, is absolutely
  • our students.
Bills: HB40, HB100, HJR1, SB64, SB19, SB44, SB83
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • For students and public institutions of higher education.
  • So what does the student do during the interim?
  • Students. You agree, Senator Parker?
  • Student engagement increased each time.
  • from the problem of collecting student notebooks for grading.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Apr 14th, 2025

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm a seminary student living in Austin.
  • The shooter killed 8 students, 2 teachers, and 13 others.
  • to school, 2324, 353 students.
  • As I mentioned before, I'm a seminary student living in Austin.
  • Students wouldn't, you know, they can get expelled for all these other things.
Bills: HB259