Thanks, Dick,<div><br></div><div>Gail Marshall attended the Education Committee hearings on Friday and offered testimony on several bills including LD 1488. Judy Sproule and I gave testimony on several other flights of bills last Monday. You can see summaries of those bills and our positions on them at:</div>
<div><a href="http://forum.mdischools.net/20110426/MDIRSS-legislative-update">http://forum.mdischools.net/20110426/MDIRSS-legislative-update</a></div><div><br></div><div>We also opposed LD 1346, the bill establishing sub-minimum wage and expanded work hours for students</div>
<div><a href="http://forum.mdischools.net/state/20110415/LD1346-testimony">http://forum.mdischools.net/state/20110415/LD1346-testimony</a></div><div><br></div><div>And we opposed several bill seeking to establish tax credits for tuition paid to religious schools:</div>
<div><a href="http://forum.mdischools.net/state/20110405/tuition-tax-credit-bills-testimony">http://forum.mdischools.net/state/20110405/tuition-tax-credit-bills-testimony</a></div><div><br></div><div>We have supported bills adopting the Common Core standards and some modifications to teachers' probationary contracts, while opposing the governor's proposed changes to teachers' retirement benefits:</div>
<div><a href="http://forum.mdischools.net/state/20110411-15/policy">http://forum.mdischools.net/state/20110411-15/policy</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://forum.mdischools.net/20110426/MDIRSS-legislative-update"></a>Anyone interested in the whole session's worth of education legislation can see the bills (with summaries) that we're following here:</div>
<div><a href="http://forum.mdischools.net/state/2011-legislation">http://forum.mdischools.net/state/2011-legislation</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://forum.mdischools.net/state/2011-legislation"></a>-Brian</div>
<div><br></div><div>------------------- <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Dick Atlee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atlee@umd.edu">atlee@umd.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I passed on to several lists the critique Brian forwarded. This reponse from Phil Bailey:<br>
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May want to check out this bill 1488  (scroll to the bottom for the summary) and consider it as an alternative to 1553 (which is truly horrible)<br>
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