TENTATIVE AGENDA

 

Joint Education Interim Committee

Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Building

Board Room

777 West 1st Street

Casper, Wyoming

December 18 and 19, 2003

 

 

Thursday, December 18, 2003, 1:00 p.m.

 

1.         Call to Order/Opening Remarks.

            Senator Hank Coe, Committee CoChair

Representative Jeff Wasserburger, Committee CoChair

 

2.         Approval of November 17-18, 2003 Minutes.

 

3.         School Finance-Regional Cost Adjustment.

A report on the continued development of an instrument to assess differences in regional costs as used in the cost-based model, completion of which is to act in tandem with the small school adjustment reevaluation and diminish the effects of the expiration of the hold harmless provision.

                        Dr. Robert Godby, UW Department of Economics

 

4.         School Finance-Small School Adjustment.

A report on the continued refinement of the small school adjustment based upon school level data and advise of the Small School Study Advisory Group.  Cumulative efforts of the small school study and the regional cost study are to address the impact of the expiration of the hold harmless provision at the end of SY 03-04.

                        Jerry Hayward, Richard Seder and John Ehlers, MAP

 

5.         Recess.

 

Friday, December 19, 2003, 8:00 a.m.

 

1.         Reconvening of Meeting/Opening Remarks.

            Senator Hank Coe, Committee CoChair

Representative Jeff Wasserburger, Committee CoChair

 

2.         School Finance Legislation & Fiscal Analysis.

                Continuation of legislation forwarded at the November 17-18 meeting, which resulted from studies and modeling of school finance components approved at the October 10 Committee meeting.

 

·         04LSO-0183, "School finance-at-risk adjustment."

·         04LSO-0184, "School finance-summer school programs."

·         04LSO-0185, "School finance-classified staff salaries."

·         04LSO-0186, "School finance-reading assessment."

 

3.         Statewide Education Data System.

Update on the statewide education data system design team findings and budget recommendations, and an update on the student performance data system supporting requirements of school district body of evidence systems to determine levels of student performance and to comply with state graduation requirements.

Steven King, State Department of Education

 

4.         State NAEP Scores.

Report on 2002 NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) scores for Wyoming.

                        Jason Nicholas and Annette Bohling, State Department of Education

 

 

5.         Teton County School District #1.

 

6.         Adjournment.

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