Committee Agenda

Committee:    House Education
Room:     413
Date:     Monday, February 9, 2009
Time:     7:45 AM



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         HB 1178      require the Department of Education to administer a pilot program for the purpose of increasing graduation rates among at-risk minority students, and to make an appropriation therefor.
             Representatives Deadrick, Brunner, Cutler, Dreyer, Gibson, Juhnke, Kirkeby, Krebs, Lederman, Lucas, Novstrup (David), Peters, Sorenson, Street, Vanderlinde, and Vanneman and Senators Garnos, Abdallah, Bartling, Bradford, Jerstad, Maher, Merchant, Nesselhuf, and Peterson

         HB 1180      create a dual credit grant program for public high school students and to make an appropriation therefor.
             Representatives Peters, Bolin, Brunner, Cutler, Deadrick, Dreyer, Gibson, Kirkeby, Krebs, Lederman, Lucas, Novstrup (David), Sorenson, Steele, Street, Vanderlinde, and Vanneman and Senators Merchant, Abdallah, Bartling, Bradford, Haverly, Jerstad, Maher, Nesselhuf, and Peterson

         HB 1235      apply to any school district transporting students in the enrollment options program the requirement that a school district receive authority from any other school district before transporting students across the border of that district.
             Representatives Greenfield and Noem and Senator Fryslie

         HB 1236      require that transfers from a resident school district to another school district through the enrollment options program are complete prior to the last Friday in September.
             Representatives Greenfield and Noem and Senator Fryslie

         HB 1282      allow counties to assign the responsibility for the redemption of bonded indebtedness of a former school district to a new school district after a reorganization.
             Representatives Feickert, Dennert, Feinstein, Frerichs, Gibson, Kirkeby, and Novstrup (David) and Senator Novstrup (Al)

         BILLS FOR POSSIBLE ACTION WHICH HAVE HAD PRIOR HEARING.

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         ED MCLAUGHLIN, Chair