Monday
11:00 am Senate Floor Session
11:30 am House Floor Session

Tuesday
8:30 am
K-12 Education Policy and Oversight
Room: Basement State Office Building
Chair: Rep. Carlos Mariani
Agenda: HF58 (Mullery) Middle school students taught about the juvenile and criminal justice systems and the consequences of delinquent and criminal conduct.
HF2962 (Fritz) Minnesota Academy for the Deaf and Minnesota Academy for the Blind provided trial placement.
HF3115 (Norton) Statewide physical education standards and report required, and a healthy kids awards program established.

8:30 am
E-12 Education Budget and Policy Division
Chair: Sen. LeRoy A. Stumpf
Room 112 Capitol
Agenda:
S.F. 1017-Bonoff: Education referendum allowance limit elimination.
S.F. 2384-Saltzman: School districts referendum equalizing factor increase; second tier referendum equalization elimination.
S.F. 511-Rosen: School districts alternative facilities bonding and levy program and deferred maintenance revenue program qualifications modification.
S.F. 433-Bonoff: School finance alternative facilities bonding and levy program modification.
S.F. 2177-Rest: School districts safe schools levy increase.
S.F. 1531-Torres Ray: Mental health model curriculum creation.

2:45 pm
K-12 Education Finance Division
Room: 10 State Office Building
Chair: Rep. Mindy Greiling
Agenda: Testimony from education groups on school district budget help recommendations.

4:30 pm
Early Childhood Finance and Policy
Room: 200 State Office Building
Chair: Rep. Nora Slawik
Agenda: HF3200 (Peterson) A bill creating an early childhood community partnerships grant program
Child Care Advisory Task Force Recommendations Report
HFXXX (Jackson) A bill for an act relating to early childhood education; modifying the child care assistance programs
Meeting Documents: Child Care Advisory Task Force Recommendations
HFXXX (Jackson)

Wednesday
8:30 am
Joint Meeting: Committee on Finance; Committee on Taxes
Chairs: Sen. Richard J. Cohen, Sen. Thomas M. Bakk
Room 15 Capitol
Agenda: 2010 February State Budget Forecast Discussion

8:30 am
Committee on Education
Chair: Sen. LeRoy A. Stumpf
Room 112 Capitol
Agenda: S.F. 2753-Bonoff: Physical education academic standards requirement; healthy kids awards program establishment.
S.F. 2601-Bonoff: Probationary teacher continuing contract offer authorization.
S.F. 2551-Wiger: Compulsory school attendance age increase.
S.F. 2739-Fobbe: Children with a disability definition modification; general obligations to children with disabilities specification; special instruction for children with a disability repeal.
S.F. 2785-Saxhaug: Flexible learning year education programs pre-Labor Day start date prohibition.
S.F. 2738-Torres Ray: Special school district #1, Minneapolis; reapportionment commission appointment authority and standards.

8:30 am
K-12 Education Policy and Oversight
Room: Basement State Office Building
Chair: Rep. Carlos Mariani
Agenda: HF2106 (Bly) Alternative learning centers and charter schools five-year pilot program established to identify systemic improvement measures to best serve eligible students, and money appropriated.
HF3157 (Mahoney) Parent notification of child maltreatment in a school facility modified, mental health assessment required of teachers disciplined for child maltreatment, teaching license revoked of repeat child maltreatment offenders, and district policy required for educating employees about mandatory child maltreatment reporting.
HF2986 (Hornstein) Responsible family life and sexuality education program created. (pending referral from Health and Human Services Policy Committee)
Meeting Documents: Author's amendment to HF3175

2:45 pm
K-12 Education Finance Division
Room: 10 State Office Building
Chair: Rep. Mindy Greiling
Agenda: HF2751 (Morgan) Students who do not pass the reading and language arts GRAD allowed to retake the test in paper-and-pencil format.
HF2880 (Kath) Graduation-Required Assessment for Diploma requirement for retakes amended.
HF3123 (Morgan) K-12 special education third-party billing process made more cost effective.

6:30 pm
Ways and Means
Ways & Means and Finance Committees
Room: 200 State Office Building
Chairs: Rep. Loren Solberg, Rep. Lyndon Carlson
Agenda: Presentation of February forecast

Thursday
8:30 am
K-12 Education Policy and Oversight
Room: Basement State Office Building
Chair: Rep. Carlos Mariani
Agenda: HFXXXX (Newton) Advisory task force on school desegregation and integration.
Additional bills or topics may be added.
Meeting Documents: HFXXXX (Newton) Advisory task force on school desegregation and integration.

2:45 pm
K-12 Education Finance Division
Room: 10 State Office Building
Chair: Rep. Mindy Greiling
Agenda: HFXXXX (Garofalo) Governor's supplemental K-12 education funding provisions

4:30 pm
Early Childhood Finance and Policy
Room: 200 State Office Building
Chair: Rep. Nora Slawik
Agenda: School Readiness Connections Pilot Project Final Evaluation
Department of Human Services
Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program Evaluation: Implementation in Year 2
Rob Grunewald, associate economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Pre-Kindergarten Allowances Project Final Evaluation
Dr. Scott McConnell, Professor, educational psychology and Center for Early Education and Development, University of Minnesota
Meeting Documents: PreKindergarten Allowances Project Final Evaluation
School Readiness Connections Final Evaluation
St. Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Evaluation

Friday
1:00 pm
K-12 Education Policy and Oversight
Room: 10 State Office Building
Chair: Rep. Carlos Mariani
Agenda: HF3163 (Mariani) Prekindergarten through grade 12 funding provided, including general education, education excellence, special programs, and early childhood education.
The presentation of HF3163 will be information-only.