Today's Committee Meetings on the LRL website is a calendar of interim committee hearings with links to agendas. The following may be helpful resources for upcoming hearings.
Friday, February 17th, 2012
Friday, February 17th, 2012
House Committee on Public Education
Charge 3: Charter school system in Texas, successes and failures in Texas and other states, comparison of charter school educational outcomes with traditional schools, best practices
- Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts, Mathematica Policy Research, Center on Reinventing Public Education, November 2011
- Do Charter Schools Improve Student Achievement? Evidence From a National Randomized Study, Mathematica Policy Research, U.S. Department of Education, December 2011
- The Evaluation of Charter School Impacts: Final Report, U.S. Department of Education, Institute for Educational Research, June 2010
- Evaluation of New Texas Charter Schools (2007-10): Final Report, Texas Center for Educational Research, Prepared for Texas Education Agency, July 2011
- Measuring Up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Laws, Second Edition, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, January 2011
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
House Committee on Higher Education
Charge 2: Transfer pathways within the state's higher education system, impact of transferability on timely degree completion, and the "2+2" model as a low-cost degree option
- Affordability and Transfer: Critical to Increasing Baccalaureate Degree Completion, The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, June 2011
- Implementing Statewide Transfer & Articulation Reform: An Analysis of Transfer Associate Degrees in Four States, Center for the Study of Community Colleges, April 2011
- Improving Student Transfer from Community Colleges to Four-Year Institutions - The Perspective of Leaders from Baccalaureate-Granting Institutions, The College Board, July 2011
- Promising Practices in Statewide Articulation and Transfer Systems, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, June 2010
- Transfer and Articulation from Community Colleges to Four-Year Institutions: Hope on the Horizon, The SOURCE on Community College Issues, Trends & Strategies, October 9, 2011
- Transfer Policies and Resources, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
House Committee on Technology
Charge 2: Benefits and financial costs associated with modernizing 911 call centers to connect dispatchers with callers using mobile means of communication during a time of emergency.
- A Basis for Public Funding Essential to Bringing a Nationwide Next Generation 911 Network to America’s Communications Users and First Responders, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, September 2011
- Funding Emergency Communications: Technology and Policy Considerations, Congressional Research Service, January 5, 2012
- Next Generation 911: Reports, Commission on State Emergency Communications
- Research Success Stories: Next Generation 911, U.S. Department of Transportation, Intelligent Transportation Systems
Charge 3: Federal broadband expansion programs in rural areas
- Bringing Broadband to Rural America: Update to Report on Rural Broadband Strategy, Federal Communications Commission, June 17, 2011
- Broadband Availability in Urban vs. Rural Areas, National Broadband Map, September 2011
- Broadband Landscape (broadband maps), Connected Texas
- The Broadband Landscape in the State of Texas: Assessment at a State, Regional & Local Level, and Recommendations for Broadband Expansion, Connected Texas , March 2011
House Committee on Appropriations
Topic: Invited testimony from Comptroller of Public Accounts, Legislative Budget Board, and State Auditor's Office
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
House Committee on Government Efficiency & Reform CANCELLED
Charge 2: Utilization of alternative project delivery methods, such as design-build and construction-manager-at-risk, since HB 1886, 80th Legislature
- Design-Build and Alternative Project Delivery Issues in Texas, Texas Council of Engineering Companies, November 2007
- A Guidebook for the Evaluation of Project Delivery Methods, Transit Cooperative Research Program, April 2009
Charge 3: Interagency agreements and charges for providing information or personal identification documents
- A Call to Action: Information Exchange Strategies for Effective State Government, National Association of State Chief Information Officers, April 2011
- Protecting Texans' Identities: The Challenges of Securing Privacy in Transparent Government, Texas Comptroller, December 2010
- The State of Texas Improves Information Sharing Through Adoption of National Information Exchange Model Standards, UniSys, 2008
