FIFTY-NINTH WYOMING LEGISLATURE

APPROVED INTERIM COMMITTEE STUDIES

2008 INTERIM

 

 

JOINT EDUCATION INTERIM COMMITTEE

 

Standard Budget:                 $30,000

 

Priority # 1         Community College Task Force

 

Receive recommendations from the Community College Task force and develop legislation necessary to execute task force recommendations.

 

Priority # 2         Tribal Relations

 

Hold a one day meeting in conjunction with the Tribal Relations Tribal Summit to consider tribal educational issues.

 

Priority # 3         Statutory Duties And Reports

Receive and respond to statutorily assigned studies and reports:

 

•Completion of allocation-expenditure study of first two school years of data subsequent to recalibration, with 2008 SF0070 continuing the allocation-use effort into the 2009-2010 biennium;

•State development and implementation of statewide career-technical education program, through efforts of a steering committee established by the State Superintendent (2008 SF0070);

•State development of at-risk resources and strategies aligned with block grant model components, including guidelines for alternative schools and educational programs for court-ordered and institutional placements, through efforts of a study committee established by the State Superintendent (2008 SF0070);

•Report of rebated recapture district expenditures of those funds at issue in litigation pertaining to implementation of 2006 Constitutional Amendment eliminating rebated recapture, and subsequent action as necessary pending litigation and reported expenditures (2008 SF0054);

•Report of food service program distributions and expenditures and necessary action to continue or discontinue off-model supplemental funding (2008 SF0070);

•Continued reporting and monitoring of off-model funding programs for summer school/extended day programs and instructional facilitators (2008 SF0070);

•Continued annual reporting of administration of the Hathaway student scholarship program including success curriculum and a separate longitudinal program study required of the Department (2008 SF0070 and 2008 SF0071); [Modified by Management Council]

•Report of recommendations on sign language instruction and the inclusion of sign language as a foreign language requirement under the Hathaway success curriculum, as developed by a task force assembled by the State Superintendent;

•Report by the Department of Education on a growth model system for assessment of student performance as necessary to meet the requirements of NCLB (2008 SF0001);

•Report on the development of a statewide college system strategic plan by the Wyoming Community College Commission (2008 HB0017);

•Report on community college system recommendations developed by the community college planning task force (2008 SF0001).

•Joint Business Council of Wind River Indian Tribes regarding expenditures of amounts appropriated for educational programs and services at BIA school located on reservation;

•Department of Education reports on district litigation expenditures;

•Department of Education reports on national board certified teacher payments;

•UW and community colleges report on biennial use of all scholarship funds;

•School district audits as conducted by the Department of Audit.

·        Report on summer school enhancement pilot project as per enacted legislation. [Note:  Added by Management Council]

 

Tentative Meeting Schedule.

 

The Committee will schedule one 2-day meeting in mid-summer, two 2-day meetings in the fall.

[Note: Management Council authorized one additional 2-day Spring meeting]