LEGISLATIVE TRIBAL EDUCATION SUMMIT AGENDA

 

Joint Education Interim Committee/Select Committee on Tribal Relations

Central Wyoming College Student Center

Fremont Community Room, #SC 103

2660 Peck Ave

Riverton, Wyoming

August 27, 2008

 

 

8:30 a.m.        Welcome and Opening Remarks.

Senator Hank Coe, JEC CoChair

Representative Del McOmie, JEC/Tribal CoChair

Senator Cale Case, Tribal CoChair

 

Montana Indian Education:  Indian Student Achievement & Indian Education for All.

Mike Jetty (Spirit Lake Dakota) Indian Education Specialist, Montana Office of Public Instruction

 

Fremont County School Districts on Reservation:

1.  Issues/Concerns Regarding Ongoing Operations

2.  Expanded Use of School Buildings for Youth Centers

 

·         Fremont County School District #14 (Ethete)

Michelle Hoffman, District Superintendent

 

·         Fremont County School District #21 (Ft. Washakie)

Gregory Cox, District Superintendent

 

·         Fremont County School District #38 (Arapahoe)

Roger Clark, District Superintendent

 

·         St. Stephen's School

1.          Funding Issues

2.          State-Federal Partnerships

3.          Enrollment/Student Performance/Related Issues

Louis Headley, School Superintendent

 

12:00 noon      Lunch Break

 

1:30 p.m.         Fremont County School Districts Bordering Reservation:  Issues/Concerns.

·         Fremont County School District #1 (Lander)

Paige Fenton-Hughes, District Superintendent

 

 

Joint Education Interim Committee/Select Committee on Tribal Relations

Legislative Tribal Education Summit Agenda

August 27, 2008

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·         Fremont County School District #6 (Pavillion)

Dianna Clapp, District Superintendent

 

·         Fremont County School District #25 (Riverton)

Craig Beck, District Superintendent

 

Wyoming Department of Education Report.

State Superintendent Jim McBride

Deputy State Superintendent Joe Simpson

Gerald Maas, Tom Collins, WDE

 

·         Fremont County School District Performance Indicators

·         Fremont #38 Technical Assistance Model

·         St. Stephen's School

·         Expanded Use of School Buildings for Youth Centers

 

5:00 p.m.         Adjournment.

 

 

SECOND DAY -- SELECT COMMITTEE ON TRIBAL RELATIONS AGENDA

THURSDAY AUGUST 28, 2008

 

Central Wyoming College Student Center

Fremont Community Room, #SC 103

2660 Peck Ave

Riverton, Wyoming

 

8:30 a.m.         Department of Workforce Services Update

Workforce services, employment, voc. rehabilitation

 

9:00 a.m.         Medicaid Update

                        Participation and Payment Issues

 

9:30 a.m.         County / Tribal Relations

                        Tribal representatives

                        County commissioners / treasurer

                        Other

 

10:15 a.m.       Break

 

10:30 a.m.       Update on Water Development

                        Contract issues

Ray Lake pilot project

 

11:00 a.m.       Update on DFS / Programs / Child Protection

 

11:30 a.m.       Consideration of Tribal lands right of way summit

                        Written report: Byrnes / McOmie (Wyo.DOT)

 

12:00 p.m.       Update on Tribal services study

                        LSO

 

12:30 p.m.       Adjournment