Joint Committee on Education
06/02/2009 – 1:00 PM – B-1
Public Hearing Summary

Bills Heard

• HB3547 (Bosley) Resolve establishing a commission relative to an index of creative and innovative education in the Commonwealth
• HB365 (Callahan) An Act relative to allied health instructors at vocational schools
• HB3658 (Dykema) An Act relative to school transportation
• HB379 (Donato) An Act relative to education collaboratives
• HB4079 (L’Italien) An Act reimbursing cities and towns for special education transportation costs
• HB422 (Harkins) An Act clarifying the rights of employees in education collaboratives
• HB424 (Harkins) An Act relative to school improvement plans
• HB452 (Koutoujian) An Act relative to education in the Commonwealth
• HB475 (Puppolo) Resolve establishing a special commission relative to reimbursements of school busing costs
• HB509 (Spiliotis) An Act Recognizing Vocational Technical Learning in Educational Assessment
• HB518 (Swan) An Act mandating the accreditation of secondary graphic communications education in vocational and technical schools
• SB229 (Flanagan) An Act relative to school improvement plans
• SB230 (Flanagan) An Act regarding school transportation
• SB235 (Galluccio) An Act establishing a consistent funding source for reinvestment in vocational education infrastructure and programs
• SB244 (Knapik) An Act concerning funding replacement vocational and technical public high school instructional equipment
• SB246 (Knapik) An Act to provide for capital equipment replacement in vocational education as part of state aid to public schools
• SB253 (Montigny) An Act relative to vocational education

Testimony

HB3547

Testified in Support:

• Representative Daniel E. Bosley
• Isa Zimmerman, Senior fellow in the UMass President’s office
• Jonathan Rappaport, Co-Director of the Kodály Music Institute at the New England Conservatory
• Mary Forte Hayes, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
• Dennis Richards, President of the Massachusetts Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
• Julie Johnson, Consultant for the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA)

HB422

Testified in Support:

• Representative Lida E. Harkins
• Michael F. Canavan, Field Representative for Legislation for the American federation of Teachers Massachusetts
• Julie Johnson, Consultant for the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA)

Testified in Opposition:

• John Fletcher, Executive Director, Merrimac Special Education Collaborative

HB424

Testified in Support:

• Steve Finnegan, General Counsel Massachusetts Association of School Committees
• Representative Lida E. Harkins

SB229

Testified in Support:

• Steve Finnegan, General Counsel Massachusetts Association of School Committees

SB253

Testified in Support:

• Representative Bruce J. Ayers
• Kellie Martin, Legal and Protective Services teacher at Greater New Bedford Vocational Technical High School
• Brendan Welch, Quincy Public High School teacher

HB3547

Testified in Support

• Senator Stanley C. Rosenberg

HB3658

Testified in Support:

• Representative Carolyn C. Dykema
• Bradford L. Jackson, Ed.D., Superintendent Holliston Public Schools

HB518

Testified in Support:

• Representative Benjamin Swan

HB4079

Testified in Support:

• Representative Barbara A. L’Italien
• Steve Finnegan, General Counsel Massachusetts Association of School Committees

HB379

Testified in Support:

• Joan Schuman, Executive Director of Hampshire Educational Collaborative

SB230

Testified in Support

• Steve Finnegan, General Counsel Massachusetts Association of School Committees

HB475

Testified in Support:

• Steve Hemman, Executive Director, Massachusetts Association of Regional Schools