Representative Ken Bragg

ALC-Policy Making — Dec. 18, 2019 (2:07)

We have two, yeah, we're having two hands, three, okay, we'll have a roll call

ALC-Policy Making — Dec. 18, 2019 (1:59)

a second. Any discussion? Representative Dotson, okay, is that the same?

ALC-Policy Making — Dec. 18, 2019 (0:32)

review of the contract between BLR and APA. Senator English, Representative Cozart, are you all ready to present? And you're

ALC-Policy Making — Dec. 18, 2019 (0:00)

I think we have this about everybody here on the committee. Let's go ahead and get started. We'll call the meeting to order. Chair sees a quorum. Senator, co-chair, do you have any comments you want to make? Just thank everyone

ALC-Policy Making — Dec. 18, 2019 (0:28)

Okay, we have one item on the agenda, and that's the consideration and

ALC-Policy Making — Dec. 18, 2019 (2:02)

Representative Dodson? Okay, is that the same?

ALC-Policy Making — Dec. 18, 2019 (0:37)

and APA. Senator English, Representative Cozart, are you all ready to present?

ALC-Policy Making — Dec. 18, 2019 (0:30)

Okay, we have one item on the agenda, and that's the consideration and review of the contract between BLR

ALC-Policy Making — Dec. 18, 2019 (0:00)

Okay, I think we have just about everybody here on the committee. Let's go ahead and get started. We'll call the meeting to order. Chair sees a quorum. Senator, co-chair, do you have any comments you want to make? Just thank everyone for coming.

Arkansas Legislative Council (ALC) — Dec. 20, 2019 (14:33)

december 16th 2019 following a roll call by division the motion failed i move adoption of the report that is a proper motion

Arkansas Legislative Council (ALC) — Dec. 20, 2019 (14:07)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Policy making subcommittee met on Wednesday, December 18th and heard from Representative Cozart and Senator English concerning a consultant services contract with APA consulting for use by the House and Senate education committees to provide education adequacy consulting services. Representative John Eubanks made a motion to approve the revised contract between BLR and APA consulting as recommended by the education committee on

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (House) — Jan. 13, 2021 (4:25)

management, and I look forward to dealing with some of those issues. We'll see some of

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (House) — Jan. 13, 2021 (4:06)

Ken Bragg, represent District 15, which covers part of Hot Spring, most of Grant and Jefferson County, and enjoyed continue serving on this forestry committee. I'm a retired forester, spent over 40 years in industrial production and forest

Meeting — Feb. 2, 2021 (1:11:47)

that rather than having those remedial courses, we have bridge courses. We have a number of things that help students get to that point. so that they don't have to take those non-credited remedial courses. So there's been some progress made in that. Right, and that was

Meeting — Feb. 2, 2021 (1:11:37)

their high school GPA was. I understand your point, and I would say over the last several years that notion of remediation has shifted in a number of institutions

Meeting — Feb. 2, 2021 (1:10:42)

So we can further research it to see what you're referring to, Representative.

Meeting — Feb. 2, 2021 (1:10:21)

end-of-course exams. I recall something like that that was associated with the lottery scholarship and then was repealed at some point in an amendment to the lottery laws. But the great inflation report that my division would have been responsible for was part of that ACT-AP.

Meeting — Feb. 2, 2021 (1:09:02)

That report compared the results on the end-of-course exams with the grades that the students received for those particular courses. So it was a report that was submitted or would have been submitted had there been end-of-course exams. I think there may have been only, Ivy, how many years, or Stacey, did

Meeting — Feb. 2, 2021 (1:08:31)

and created a number of sanctions, rewards, and that sort of thing. When we moved from No Child Left Behind to Every Student Succeeds Act, we completely changed our state accountability system. The grade inflation report that was required under ACT-AP was tied to the end-of-course exams. We no longer have end-of-course exams and haven't for a number of years. So that was repealed then because there were no end-of-course exams upon which to base that report.

Meeting — Feb. 2, 2021 (1:08:16)

found that information. I think everybody was kind of wanting to know that. So there was a great inflation report requirement as part of the old ACT-AP legislation, which was repealed in 2017. If you'll recall ACT-AP, it preceded No Child Left Behind but was modified after No Child Left Behind