The Look Ahead

Tuesday

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

• Requiring a school district that is making reductions in educator staff positions to retain a teacher with less seniority if the teacher has more merit and if retention of the teacher is necessary to maintain the school district's diversity ratio (HB 2001). 
• Establishing a pilot program to improve educational outcomes by using trauma-informed approaches to education, health services and intervention strategies (HB 2368). 
• Directing the Oregon Department of Education to study students' behavioral health needs (HB 2408). 
• Making permanent school district funding for foreign exchange students and small school district grants (HB 2330). 

Wednesday

1 p.m. |  The Joint Ways and Means Education Subcommittee will hold an informational hearing on the education system budget.

3:15 p.m. |  The Senate Education Committee will hold a public hearing on:

• Establishing a task force on restorative justice (SB 736). 
• Creating requirements for annual school district and school performance reports, including requirement for inclusion of data related to suspensions and expulsions (SB 328).  

Thursday

9 a.m. |  The State Board of Education meets. 

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

• Altering the commissioner composition of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission by redesignating five nonvoting positions as voting positions and by adding one position for a graduate student (HB 2873).

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