The Week Ahead
Monday
8:30 a.m.: The Joint Ways and Means Education Subcommittee will hold a public hearing on:
- Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (SB 5537).
11 a.m.: The House will vote on:
- Requiring a licensed teacher on the State Board of Education (HB 2512).
1 p.m.: The House Economic Development Committee will hold a public hearing on:
- Funding broadband for rural Oregon (HB 2184).
1 p.m.: The Senate Education Committee will hold an informational hearing on:
- High School Graduation and College and Career Readiness Act (Measure 98).
1 p.m.: The Senate Education Committee will hold a public hearing on:
- Making class size a mandatory collective bargaining subject for school districts (SB 764).
1 p.m.: The Senate Education Committee will hold a work session on:
- Establishing an inclusive schools pilot program (SB 12).
- Implementing an education plan for Native American or Alaska Native students who have experienced disproportionate educational results (SB 14).
- Requiring school district policies on student suicide prevention (SB 52).
- Developing school communication plans following a suspected suicide (SB 485).
3 p.m.: The House Education Committee will hold a public hearing on:
- Modifying the requirements to qualify as a small high school (HB 2867).
- Using grants to diversify the teacher workforce (HB 2742).
- Using grants to improve kindergarten student-to-teacher ratios in high-poverty schools (HB 2248).
3 p.m.: The House Education Committee will hold a work session on:
- Increasing support for students in agricultural education courses (HB 2444).
- Allowing excused absences for mental or behavioral health (HB 2191).
- Creating the Oregon Imagination Library Project to provide books for children (HB 2247).
Tuesday
8:30 a.m.: The Joint Ways and Means Education Subcommittee will hold a public hearing on:
- Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (SB 5537).
11 a.m.: The Senate will vote on:
- Adjusting the statutory listing for education service districts (SB 151).
- Allowing teachers to be temporarily employed while awaiting license (SB 216).
- Allowing community colleges to offer baccalaureate degrees (SB 3).
- Changing special education statute language (SB 13).
3 p.m.: The Senate Human Services Committee will hold a public hearing on:
- Making school board members mandatory reporters of child abuse (SB 415).
Wednesday
8:30 a.m.: The Joint Ways and Means Education Subcommittee will hold a public hearing on:
- Appropriating money for the Oregon Department of Education (HB 5015).
- Appropriating money for the State School Fund (HB 5016).
1 p.m.: The Senate Education Committee will hold a public hearing on:
- Requiring Holocaust and genocide instruction in schools (SB 664).
3 p.m.: The House Education Committee will hold a public hearing on:
- Increasing the number of math, science and career and technical education teachers in eastern Oregon (HB 2457).
- Allowing remote, small high schools to use Measure 98 money on existing career and technical education programs (HB 2385).
- Providing grants to counties that received Secure Rural Schools Program payments in 2008 (HB 2358).
- Prohibiting districts from belonging to or paying organizations that schedule interscholastic activities on legal holidays (HB 2612).
3 p.m.: The Senate Finance and Revenue Committee will hold a public hearing on:
- Amending the Oregon Constitution to repeal 1997 property tax measure (SJR 21).
- Amending the Oregon Constitution to set a minimum property tax (SJR 2).
Thursday
8:30 a.m.: The Joint Ways and Means Education Subcommittee will hold a public hearing on:
- Appropriating money for the Oregon Department of Education (HB 5015).
- Appropriating money for the State School Fund (HB 5016).
Items may be added to legislative committee agendas during the week. The Oregon Legislature keeps an updated page of committee agendas.
- Jake Arnold, OSBA