Notes From The Legislature: Week of February 26

Last week:  Last week in the Sen­ate Edu­ca­tion Com­mit­tee: bud­get hear­ings from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mem­phis, Mid­dle Ten­nessee State Uni­ver­si­ty, and Ten­nessee State Uni­ver­si­ty. The House Edu­ca­tion Admin­is­tra­tion & Plan­ning Com­mit­tee will hear from the Office of Research and Edu­ca­tion Account­abil­i­ty (OREA), pre­sent­ing on “Fund­ing Tennessee’s Pub­lic Col­leges and Uni­ver­si­ties: The Out­comes-Based Fund­ing For­mu­la.” Mean­while, the House Edu­ca­tion Instruc­tion & Pro­grams Com­mit­tee will hear anoth­er pre­sen­ta­tion from OREA, this time on Fis­cal Year 2017–2018 ver­i­fi­ca­tion of the Basic Edu­ca­tion Pro­gram (BEP) cal­cu­la­tion.

Com­ing up this week: The Sen­ate edu­ca­tion com­mit­tee will hold bud­get hear­ing for the Ten­nessee Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ten­nessee, and Ten­nessee State Uni­ver­si­ty.

• Sen­ate Edu­ca­tion Com­mit­tee will meet on Wednes­day at 2:30pm in Sen­ate Hear­ing Room 1
• House Edu­ca­tion Admin­is­tra­tion & Plan­ning Com­mit­tee will meet Tues­day at 9am in HHRIII.
• House Edu­ca­tion Instruc­tion & Pro­grams Com­mit­tee and Tues­day at 12:00pm in HHRI
• House Edu­ca­tion Admin­is­tra­tion & Plan­ning Sub­com­mit­tee will meet Tues­days at 3pm in HHRV
• House Edu­ca­tion Instruc­tions & Pro­grams Sub­com­mit­tee will meet Wednes­day at 1:30pm in HHR2