FIFTY-EIGHTH WYOMING LEGISLATURE

APPROVED INTERIM COMMITTEE STUDIES

2006 INTERIM

 


JOINT EDUCATION INTERIM COMMITTEE

Initial Budget Approved:  $40,000

 

Topic #1:          Studies Assigned by Law.

 

·        Allocation-expenditure study on district resourcing of education programs with state school foundation dollars.

·        State guidelines on alternative schools.

·        State guidelines on configuration of schools.

·        Monitoring of off-model funding programs for summer school/extended day programs and instructional facilitators.

·        At-risk study reviewing procedures for identifying mobile students and reviewing at-risk program effectiveness as measured by student performance and district program structure, content and delivery.

·        District food service programs.

·        District student activity programs.

·        District safety and security needs.

·        District use of federal special education funds and the ability to consider offsetting state special education funds with federal funds.

·        Feasibility of incorporating BIA schools into the Wyoming system of public school finance.

·        Review of court identified issues, including at-risk proxies, teacher seniority, use of WCLI as regional cost adjustment, external cost adjustment methodology and vocational education resources;

·        Contents of an appropriate success curriculum for Hathaway scholarship program, enabling students entering high school in fall 2007 to pursue success curricula for scholarship eligibility and adoption of statewide assessment standards and scores to augment scholarship eligibility criteria;

·        Funding sources and alternatives for Evenstart (adult literacy) program through Community College Commission.

 

Topic #2:          Additional Study Topics.

 

·        Review of required statewide educational program (basket of goods);

·        Report from Wyoming Community College Commission on funding needs, suggested revenue sources and proposed structural modifications for distributing financial resources;

·        Review of teacher tenure laws;

·        Review of charter school law.


 

 


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