The Week Ahead

Monday

11 a.m. The Senate will vote on:

• Making school board members mandatory reporters of child abuse (SB 415).
• Requiring Holocaust and genocide instruction in schools (SB 664).

1 p.m.: The Senate Education Committee will hold a work session on:

• Paying for vision screenings (SB 289).
• Establishing the Indian Health Scholarship Program (SB 293).

3 p.m.: The House Education Committee will hold a public hearing on:

• Academic content standards for histories on certain classifications of individuals (HB 2023).
• Grants for supporting social, emotional, mental and physical needs of students (HB 2224).
• Requiring comprehensive school counseling (HB 2441).
• Increasing students served by school social workers (HB 2940).

3 p.m.: The House Education Committee will hold a work session on:

• Decreasing school absenteeism (HB 2026).
• Studying the adequacy of Oregon’s public education (HB 2964).

Wednesday

8:30 a.m.: The House Revenue committee will hold a public hearing on:

• Creating a tax credit for teacher expenses (HB 2823).

1 p.m.: The Senate Education Committee will hold a work session on:

• Requiring abuse investigations by the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (SB 155).

1 p.m.: The Senate Education Committee will hold a public hearing on:

• Helping foster youths transition from community colleges to public universities (SB 158).
• Increasing the State School Fund weighting for students in poverty, foster homes or state-recognized facilities (SB 535).
• Paying for study abroad programs for foster children (SB 828). 

Items may be added to legislative committee agendas during the week. The Oregon Legislature keeps an updated page of committee agendas.

 - Jake Arnold, OSBA