Senator Jane English

Education Committee - Senate & House Meeting Jointly with Advanced Communications & Information — Dec. 16, 2019 (19:26)

besides what some of the recommendations were? Because I even see that with our own Department of Education is doing a lot of things. And sometimes they don't have anything to do with adequacy. But changes are happening in schools. And I'm not sure if it has anything to do with what we're talking about here or it has to do with the new kinds of things that they're doing in the schools throughout the state. Does that make sense? I think I understand.

Education Committee - Senate & House Meeting Jointly with Advanced Communications & Information — Dec. 16, 2019 (18:55)

Okay, thank you, Mr. Chair. So Representative Beck, one of the things that I've noticed recently in just the last few weeks, two places, Washington, D.C. and Mississippi, raised their reading rates tremendously, probably better than anybody in the United States. So sometimes I kind of wonder, what does that have to do with, is it a lot of other things they were doing

ALC-Policy Making — Dec. 18, 2019 (3:47)

with public health, with any of these committees, would have undergone the kind of thing that we've seen here. And I am so, I'm really disappointed in this crowd. How many of you were even on the education committee? How many of you even have sat through and listened to the kinds of things we're talking about? I can't tell you how very disappointed I am in this whole process. Thank you, Senator. Committee is adjourned.

ALC-Policy Making — Dec. 18, 2019 (3:34)

may I say something here? Sure. I am really, really disappointed in this. I have been in this legislature for 10 years. I'm not sure that any contract with the revenue and tax committee,

ALC-Policy Making — Dec. 18, 2019 (3:49)

with public health, with any of these committees, would have undergone the kind of thing that we've seen here. And I am so, I'm really disappointed in this crowd. What, none of, how many of you were even on the education committee? How many of you even could have sat through and listened to the kinds of things we're talking about? I can't tell you how very disappointed I am in this whole process. Thank you, Senator. All right, ma'am.

ALC-Policy Making — Dec. 18, 2019 (3:36)

may I say something here? Sure. I am really, really disappointed in this. I have been in this legislature for 10 years. I'm not sure that any contract with the revenue and tax committee,

ALC - Administrative Rules — Dec. 18, 2019 (1:12:56)

and so this is a mechanism to make the schools track what they're doing and are they keeping up their schools and so you know if they haven't been taking care of the heating and air conditioning and all of a sudden it falls apart well there are maintenance type things that people need to be doing so i think in the long run i think this will save a lot of money but it also will help us to make sure that these schools stay maintained yeah i would agree and i think it's a good rule

ALC - Administrative Rules — Dec. 18, 2019 (1:12:33)

other questions or comments? Senator English? Thank you. I think one of the things, because this was my legislation, one of the things that I think we were really looking at is the requirement that schools keep track of their maintenance and because otherwise you get to the end where people have not maybe in some cases haven't been using the maintenance funds to take care of their schools and all of a sudden they're falling apart

Data Sharing & Data-Driven Decision-Making Task Force — Dec. 19, 2019 (46:04)

things, but we've got to somehow develop a vision and a plan. Thank you.

Data Sharing & Data-Driven Decision-Making Task Force — Dec. 19, 2019 (45:42)

Any closing comments, Senator? Keep your minds going and be thinking about, and as you're reading and taking in things like what Rogers talked about in legislative audit, we just need to think about this in a much bigger view than what we've had. And we definitely have to have some kind of a vision and a plan. And we do a lot of talking about a lot of

Data Sharing & Data-Driven Decision-Making Task Force — Dec. 19, 2019 (44:18)

anything you can think of that we need to want to add

Data Sharing & Data-Driven Decision-Making Task Force — Dec. 19, 2019 (42:57)

to looking to bringing in folks, because it'll be a while before we can get a technology committee set up. That'll be 21 before we can do that. So in the meantime, we could have this opportunity for further discussion in bringing in other folks

Data Sharing & Data-Driven Decision-Making Task Force — Dec. 19, 2019 (42:39)

Do you have any? I just do. I do have this one, and I had planned to do it today, but I got waylaid, is to establish a legislative subcommittee of legislative council to continue this kind of work

Data Sharing & Data-Driven Decision-Making Task Force — Dec. 19, 2019 (41:30)

of there. Essentially, they're responsible. You know, I mean, that buck stops right there with them. And so it's

Data Sharing & Data-Driven Decision-Making Task Force — Dec. 19, 2019 (41:36)

got to be. But hopefully it would be something that we all could work together on that hopefully could happen.

Data Sharing & Data-Driven Decision-Making Task Force — Dec. 19, 2019 (39:54)

for a recommendation? Okay so so we

Data Sharing & Data-Driven Decision-Making Task Force — Dec. 19, 2019 (38:54)

so that folks are beginning to think about what is the state strategy. You obviously can't tell everything that you're doing, but someplace. And who's going to be responsible? And would

Data Sharing & Data-Driven Decision-Making Task Force — Dec. 19, 2019 (38:23)

And I think that's a legitimate role for a group to begin to have those discussions, whether it's another task force or whether it's a legislative group or what it is. but somehow we've got to find a way that we're working with the administration because they do their stuff over here, and we don't know what's going on. So it's over here we're planning our own things. But from my standpoint, we need to figure out we need to push the envelope

Data Sharing & Data-Driven Decision-Making Task Force — Dec. 19, 2019 (37:51)

I mean, if you think about someplace up here, you've got to have this now, we're talking about across the state, but we're talking about state agencies, we're talking about schools, we're talking about municipalities, we're talking about, which actually doesn't fit really right underneath this, but is a whole different kind of thing, and how do we work with the private sector? I mean, there's just so much out there. It's probably mind-boggling for most all of us. It is for me just to think about how do you organize something like that.

Data Sharing & Data-Driven Decision-Making Task Force — Dec. 19, 2019 (37:21)

but I don't think they've gotten anywhere. Right. So what kind of suggestions would you all have about