Today's Committee Meetings on the LRL website is a calendar of interim committee hearings with links to agendas. Below are resources related to upcoming Interim Hearings.
July 25, 2022
House Committee on Public Education
Monitor the agencies and programs under the Committee’s jurisdiction and oversee the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 87th Legislature. Conduct active oversight of all associated rulemaking and other governmental actions taken to ensure the intended legislative outcome of all legislation, including the following:
- HB 1525 and HB 3 (86R), relating to public school finance and public education;
- HB 4545, relating to assessment of public school students and providing accelerated instruction;
- SB 1365, relating to public school organization, accountability, and fiscal management; and
- SB 1716, relating to supplemental special education services and instructional materials for certain public school students.
Charge: Study the effects of COVID-19 on K-12 learning loss and best practices that exist to address learning loss. Monitor the implementation of state and local plans to address students' achievement gaps. Make recommendations for supporting the state and local efforts to increase academic development.
- Texas Can Do More to Ensure Students Recover from Pandemic Learning Loss, UnidosUS, May 19, 2022
- Interim Hearings – Week of May 23, 2022, May 24 – House Committee on Public Education, Legislative Reference Library, May 18, 2022
- State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, U.S. Department of Education, April 21, 2021
- COVID-19 Learning Loss in Texas, Southern Methodist University, Istation, February 2021
Charge: Examine the causes and contributors for chronic absenteeism in public schools and its impact on student outcomes. Consider techniques and approaches that have been utilized by public schools to identify students who are chronically absent and return these students to classrooms.
- Interim Hearings – Week of May 23, 2022, May 24 – House Committee on Public Education, Legislative Reference Library, May 18, 2022
- Chronic Absenteeism is a Huge School Problem. Can Data Help?, Governing, May 20, 2021
- Spotlight: Chronic Absenteeism, George W. Bush Institute, Spring 2018
July 26, 2022
House Committee on Public Education
Charge: Identify and examine efforts to ensure that parents have a meaningful role in their children’s education. Recommend necessary changes in both independent school district board and open enrollment charter governing board governance to protect the right of parents to participate in their child’s education.
- Parental Rights Bills Have Been Introduced in Most States. Teachers are Pushing Back, The 19th, March 25, 2022
- Connected Through Our Schools: The 2022 Poll on Texans' Attitudes Toward Public Education, Charles Butt Foundation, 2022
- Education Legislation: Bill Tracking (Topic: Parental Involvement), National Conference of State Legislatures, December 13, 2021
Charge: Examine partnerships between K-12, higher education institutions, and employers that promote postsecondary and career readiness and identify current obstacles that public schools,higher education institutions, and employers face. Make recommendations to ensure career and technical education programs, internships, apprenticeships, and other opportunities are more accessible.
- Using Guided Pathways to Build Cross-Sector Pathways Partnerships, Community College Research Center, October 2021
- Critical Comeback: The Value of a Trades Education in the Age of Uncertainty, Texas Builder, September/October 2020
- 50-State Comparison: Secondary Career and Technical Education (State Profile - Texas), Education Commission of the States, April 1, 2020
- Tracking and the Future of Career and Technical Education: How Efforts to Connect School and Work Can Avoid the Past Mistakes of Vocational Education, National Education Policy Center, February 2020
- We Need a Systemic Approach to Career Pathways, Phi Delta Kappan, November 25, 2019
- Advance Together, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
- Texas College and Career Readiness School Models, Texas Education Agency
Charge: Monitor and analyze the state policy on curriculum and instructional materials used in public schools.
- Instructional Materials and Library Books in Texas Public Schools – What You Need to Know, Texas Association of School Boards, 2022
- 87th Legislative Session Final Bill Report 2021 (Curriculum and Instruction), Texas Association of School Administrators, 2021
- Curriculum Division, Instructional Materials, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, Texas Education Agency
