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We'd like to welcome everybody to the House Education Committee today. And as everybody is making their way to the table, Robert Dell, you look perplexed, but you're okay. All right. That's your normal look? Okay. We're good with that. All right, please make yourselves at home if you don't have a seat or grab a cup of coffee.
We want you to feel at home today. We have a special presentation today, one of our 15-minute presentations that we're doing at the beginning of our meetings. And I would like to recognize Representative Charlotte Douglas to introduce our guests today.
Representative Douglas, you're recognized. Mr. Chair, thank you
Representative Dan M. Douglas
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very much. We have the opportunity today to listen to Mr. Dan Roberts,
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who is from Van Buren School District.
I was an employee at Van Buren School District for about 12 years, and he is going to tell us, he's the facilities director there, about an amazing school, a green school that they built. And I think we'll all be excited to hear about, you know, the impact of that school on the district. So thank you, Mr. Roberts. Thank you, Charles. First of all, I would like
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to... One moment, Mr. Roberts. Representative Talley, if you would help Mr. Roberts here.
We want to make sure everybody hears you, sir. Need some
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voice. And, Mr. Roberts, we thank you for being here, and you are recognized, sir. Thank you. First of all, I want to thank the committee. for allowing the Baymere schools to present the King Elementary School League Gold Certified School to you today. I realize I have a short period of time, and I will honor that. So someone in 10 minutes say, you need to stop. So I'll give you time to ask Q&A.
I did have a partner with me today, but the architect from MHG, Michael LeJean, but he had a health issue that came up yesterday. He was in the hospital yesterday. So he said, Dan, I hate it because I can't go, but he said, I know you Marines can take care of business. I said, you got it. So here I am. So bear with me today. Yesterday, we found out that King Elementary School was selected by the United States Green Building Council
as a construction project for the year in the state of Arkansas. I'm not real sure the exact count of LEAD projects last year, but it was the neighborhood of 20. So that is a great honor for our school, our school district, and our community, and also for the state of Arkansas. Last year's winner went on to the national competition for awards and won the national. So Arkansas is real active in building sustainable green buildings.
The first slide I have up here, it's a little dated. and that's the point I want to make time is against us sometimes I started this project my grandchildren were two and three years old made this shot about three years ago and so it takes a lot of time to do facilities takes a lot of planning but it's about kids it's about kids schools are about kids I'm sure you've heard that a thousand times when you think of green think a healthy schools. That was the way I sold it to the superintendent and to the school board. We're
building a healthy school. And there's a lot of history behind that, but just trust me, we have a healthy, one of the healthiest schools in America. And all students deserve to have a healthy environment. The first thing I'm going to do to get you to think a little bit here, which I'm sure a lot of you have a lot to think about today, as you do every day. And before I go any further, I want to thank the committee for their service to the community, to the state of Arkansas, and serving on the legislature. I'm sure there's a lot of thankless days that you have,
but I'm one who served this country for 30 years in the Marine Corps, and a thank you was always appreciated by me, and I sincerely thank you for your work because it's a monumental task that you have. With that, schools, if you'll think back when you were in school, Well, a lot of textbooks floating around the school, and the use of textbooks and technology has changed throughout the years. But if anyone has a book here they'd like for me to use in a demonstration, I'll be glad to, or I'll use my book.
So anybody have a book they'd like for me to use in a demonstration? No brave souls, huh? Okay. Well, I'm going to use my book that I have here, and it's called Cradle to Cradle. And in one of your handouts there, there's a great narrative written by a teacher, a special education teacher. And sometime in your leisure, I would like for you to sit down and read that narrative. Because she summarizes exactly what King's School is all about and what school should be all about. She's a special education teacher. This information came unsolicited from her.
And it's a wonderful narrative about King's School. And I'd love to talk about it, but we don't have time. But in that, she talks about cradle to cradle. Currently in our society, we build and do things from cradle to grave. We build a building, tear it down, put it in the landfill. Cradle to cradle, sustainable buildings, USGBC, elite certified buildings, we work from the standpoint of cradle to cradle. So I thought it was a good illustration here. I brought in this
bucket and someone asked, what's this bucket for? I said, oh that's my spit tune up in Crawford County and I needed something to spin it up here today and they kind of looked at me like this guy's nuts you know so I didn't give away my secret actually it has water in it so at the end of this presentation I'm going to show you what this book looks like at the end of the presentation and someone will win this book and someone will have homework to do with his book if they
choose to do it over the next year since I'm in education we always give people homework to do right no homework you're not having school so whoever is the winner will have some homework if they choose to do it so with that the book is in the water so think about that what's happening to that book cradle to cradle planning is a critical element of anything that we do here it says planning plans are nothing plans planning is everything and and you as Most legislatures do a lot of planning, but generally planning is last-minute deciding
what to do for the latest crisis. Facilities planning is long-term, 10 years. And I will tell you from personal experience, as an educator, as a coach, as a principal, and now as a facility director for the last six years, a total of 44 years in education, planning is not something most people like to do. There's not a lot of fanfare in planning, but I'm telling you, it's critically important in the facilities area and building our schools for the 21st century and beyond.
And it has great economic value. Stole that from President Eisenhower, one of his famous sayings. This is a process. A progress and change is a process, not an event. I've emphasized this to our district, our superintendent, our school board time and time again. It's a process. It's a long, tedious process, but the rewards are insurmountable. Why LEED? Why green buildings?
Well, the Lakeview case said that our facilities in Arkansas needed major work, but not only in Arkansas throughout the nation because of aging facilities. I'm sure most of you have heard that story. Well, through the partnership program that Arkansas came up with, Van Buren qualifies for roughly 50% of the qualifying cost of any facility's work that they receive a grant on. King School was the first grant, and I had a little pressure. The superintendent said, we created this position for you, Mr. Roberts, to go get us money for King Project.
If you don't get it, you don't have a job. I said, ooh, that sounds like a challenge to me. So not only that, we've been able to secure grant money from the state on that. The partnership money is invaluable to your school districts, depending on what your district qualifies for. Recently, Bentonville qualified for 18 percent of the qualifying cost of any projects. Before, they didn't qualify because of their tax base and so forth. But Arkansas continues to be a state where schools need revenue to operate.
And facilities, to me, is one of the paramount areas in which we need to continue making progress. And we have made substantial progress through Dr. Stein's office at the Facilities Department. And he is asking now that we continue that program, and I hope you support that. Leadership in energy, environment, and design. Now, I'm sure all of you have heard a lot about energy, but this is a part of it. The school we built, King School, has 138 wells, geothermal, and the utility costs are minimal compared to the old facility, and it's three times as large.
And I would love to tell you the story about this, but this has got to be a short story because I only have 10 minutes. Warm, safe, and dry has been our emphasis since the King School. We currently have eight roof HVAC projects we're hoping to kick off. We're coming at the end of the cycle. And most school districts in Arkansas, their buildings live a life cycle, and this is some area that most people never look at is the roofs. They look at the doors inside the building. But if you don't have a warm, safe, dry environment, it's not very nice inside.
And I've worked in a few school districts, not Van Buren, in Arkansas, where I had to put out the buckets every day, both as a coach in the gym and in the classroom. And that's not conducive. It doesn't make any difference what your curriculum is, what your teacher qualities are. If you have an unhealthy, unfriendly environment, the students are not going to progress at the rate that they should. And this is just kind of a toot our horn. Arkansas, it was the first LEED certified school. They changed the certification, started our project.
I got a group of people and took them down to Bryant, who had built the first new construction LEED school in Arkansas, a fantastic facility. And they were the school district that we used and I used as an example to push forward building a LEED certified school, and I'm sure many of you have heard about it. This is just obviously a front side view of the building, and the building looks great from all angles. Selecting the site is the most critically important part of building a LEED certified
school because of the north-south axis, because you lies in sun. Seventy percent of the light in a school is natural light. Wow, that's huge. Talk to any teacher at King Now as opposed to the school they were in before it was built in the 1930s. They will tell you unequivocally this is the greatest environment they've ever worked in. And many of them have stopped taking their medications for asthma, for headaches, for all the things they have because they come to school in an environment that's healthy. I want to emphasize that word, healthy.
I can't overemphasize the fact this is a healthy building. Student attendance historically in all LEED buildings, and there's insurmountable documentation from 30 years that show academic improvement, anywhere from 20 to 25 percent, just the fact that students move into a LEED certified building. It doesn't necessarily have to be gold because gold is the second highest. It's platinum. This is basically the cost. The project total cost was $14.76 million.
We got $4.7 million, but you'll have to understand, originally when we got the application, the building was going to cost $9.7 million, but we weren't able to get it started for about three years, so cost went up. Plus, you've got to take out some money there because we did combine a safe room within the context of the building, which is absolutely wonderful, and we got a FEMA grant for that. So we did a lot of things in the facility. more facts and figures the bottom line figure that most people say and they argue, and I heard this time and time again
for two or three years, it costs too much it raised the price of the building we built this building at the traditional cost part of that was because of the economy at the time and being able to get the vendors but roughly they say it costs about 1% more, but your payback is about 7 to 10 years in a lead building, where the traditional building built the traditional ways the payback may be as 20 to 30 years. Again, an outside shot, which
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you don't see there in the tree area.
I'm going to use my pointer here. In the tree area here, there are 138 wells in the ground
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here that go 300 feet deep that circulates the water that provides heating and cooling for the building. Critically important in reducing energy costs. Integrated design I don't have time to go into all of these But when you look at that You'll see that we had Because of going LEED certified And the cradle concept We were able to recycle
75% Our salvage from the old building Now we have to be We live in the natural state We are in a very Incredibly great geographical area, and preserving our resources is paramount to the state of Arkansas, and the natural state tourism, the environment. So Arkansas right now currently has built per capita more LEED certified buildings, I believe, than any other state.
And don't quote me on that, but we're right at the top of all 50 states. Ten minutes is getting there. Okay. Let me back up. There are 27 classrooms. You're
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good, sir. You just keep on rolling. You're
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all right. There are 27 classrooms at King School. A lot of people don't realize schools have a maximum number of students they can have within a classroom. And our classrooms across the state are packed in. So if you're in a clean, healthy, indoor air quality is great.
Acoustics in this building, the teacher does not have to raise their voice. Like, I know I'm raising my voice. That's just me. I coached too long, and I was in the Marines, so we do a lot of yelling. Okay, I don't mean to be yelling at you. But I get motivated about this in a classroom. The teacher can go in and talk in a normal voice and the kid on the last row can hear them. Now, does that not reduce stress level? My wife taught for 20, 27 years, and I would tell her, I don't want to hear that third grade voice or this when she went to sixth grade. It got even louder. You know, so there's so much spinoff from building a LEED certified building.
This is the back shot of the building. We have an incredible playground now for youngsters. Okay, there are six categories for receiving points. I have a slide on each one, but I'm going to flip through those. A sustainable site. Water efficiency. Now, some of these things, some of the utilities companies weren't really excited about when we were going to be more efficient with our water. That means less revenue.
Same way with electric companies. But once they understood what we were doing, they went on board quickly. And so we have our non-drinkable water we use for irrigation in the buildings. Pardon me, in the site. Energy and atmosphere is a category. Materials and resources. One of the hard things for a lot of states to do, trying to get your material and resources within a 500-mile radius. Now, if you're in Florida, 500-mile radius means you've got to go out in the ocean and get it. So they have a real challenge on building LEED-certified buildings.
They're doing it now. In fact, last year was the first year they did a school in the whole state of Florida. So Arkansas is in a great position geographically because there's an incredible amount of resources within 500 miles, just natural resources. So you get points for that. Indoor environmental quality, huge indoor quality. Asthma is the number one problem what kids have in schools, and that's because of the environment they're in, not just necessarily the school, but also the home and other places
they're in. And there's a lot of research that shows the number of students having asthma decreases significantly. And I have heard that with King. Don't have any hard data on it yet, but I've heard that from teachers just informally. design. You have to pick the right architect who buys into this. Our architect firm, MHG, worked hand and foot with our teachers, and we designed on this building for about eight months. And we're not talking about picking out carpet and the color of the walls. We did that at the end, but there was a lot of decisions.
So they were involved in all the decisions the staff were. So they took ownership of the facility, because the facility is a teaching tool for students. We have built into our curriculum, environmental curriculum subjects, that's tied to the core standards now. So they're definitely an educational spinoff for building a LEED-certified building. And the teacher who wrote the, Ms. Hobbs, who wrote that article, alludes to that fact. And this is about points. I'm just going to skip through the points.
There's no way that you're going to get all the points in each one. What you try for, platinum is the highest, gold is next. We missed platinum by three points, but there's some significant cost in doing platinum. There's not much return on that. I believe the Clinton Library is now platinum. It took them about five, six, seven years to get to that level. I believe they may be one of the few in the state that's platinum. I wonder how my book's doing. Is my book okay? It's not coming out yet.
Okay. Amazing school. There's just a couple quotes here from the teacher. Where we learn, well, I'll be learned, matters. A typo. I'll take full credit. Where we learn matters. King impacts student lives every day because of the environment. I would encourage you, if you're ever through Fort Smith, to stop by and see the building. I would encourage your administrators in your district to come by, or I'll be glad to make a presentation on the King School,
to get them to think differently about addressing facility needs in your district. And there's a few examples of facilities. The list now is up to 82 facilities in Arkansas since 2004 have been built, either LEED certified or gold or platinum or silver. Certified silver, gold, and platinum are the categories. So Arkansas definitely is one of the leaders in that.
I'm sorry I went too fast, but time really restricts us, but I do want to say, and I came up with this line, and the longer I'm with it, the more I believe in it, because I've been to a lot of schools throughout the country, and I do believe in Arkansas. We have a world-class school in Van Buren, Arkansas, in Crawford County. And we did it without a millage increase. We did it with existing resources that we have. And we did it as a team approach, using the community and the staff to design the school.
And we're extremely proud of it. And we have full intentions that our test results in the near future because, you know, testing is important. academic achievement is critically important and if the two don't match then we shouldn't have done it and I'm absolutely confident that will happen in the final analysis of it but the other thing is if you ever go there and have a chance to visit with the teachers you'll go wow this is really cool I wish my kids went here so one of the challenges we have people all in the district want their kids to go to King School and we can't do that we do have a plan to to
continue improving our quality of our schools through the partnership program and I hope you all are able to support that Q&A Mr. Roberts thank you
very very much it's an excellent presentation committee do we have any questions for Mr. Roberts Representative Lowry thank you
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Mr. Chairman just one quick question I was looking at your energy and atmosphere savings that issue one of the things that I'm
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really interested in would be the concept and it and we may
not be to that affordability point yet, but the use of solar panels on new construction. It seems like with K-12 schools, we have a unique opportunity where the buildings are only being used maybe eight out of the 12 months, and you could actually sell back electricity during the four months the buildings are being unused. Is that something
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that can be incorporated into the LEED plan? Yes, that is one of your options. We chose because of solar research and where construction is now with commercial facilities
in this area, that that wouldn't have been affordable for us at this time. But the cost for solar is coming down radically every day. So I think that is an option for the future to do with schools. But at the time, it wasn't appropriate for us to do, so we chose geothermal because
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we We had an ideal situation there with our geology. Okay. Thank you, Representative Larry. Do we have any
other questions for Mr. Roberts? If not, thank you very much for being here, Mr. Roberts. We appreciate you.
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Oh, we got the book. Got to get the book. Got to get the book. And we do have a winner. If you'll turn over your one handout, I didn't put numbers on all of them. I just took one of them and wrote winner. So if you turn it over and you see something just like winter written on the back of it, you have won this book. Yes, sir. You have won it. But you have homework, sir. You have homework. I'd like for it to at least scan through it and read it and pass it on to your fellow legislators here.
And you can see the book is still intact. What's it made out of? both classic and
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the gentleman who wrote this I got a chance to hear him speak in in Denver when I first took the job there were 17,000 people from all over the world there there were only about 600 educators which kind of
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startled me but I had a chance to get an autograph signed book who has been the
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leader in its sustainable, clean environment system.
Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Roberts, and thank you for your service to this country as well. Thank you for the great presentation. And Representative Carnot, you have a book there. Congratulations on being the winner of today's prize. I need to check on the value of this slide. Yeah, we're going to make sure you report that, my friend. Okay, with that, the committee, I think we just have one bill that we're going to take up today, House Bill 1535.
Before we get to that, Representative Lampkin, just one little announcement. We have a lot of bills on the regular agenda and several that are pending fiscal impact. We have some shell bills, and, of course, those that are deferred. But if you are a member of the committee and you do have an agenda item on the regular agenda, a bill on the regular agenda, please let Mark know when you want to run that. If not, we're going to start moving some of these bills to the deferred list, okay, because they've been hanging around on the regular agenda for quite a while.
And per Representative or Speaker Carter, we need to start getting some of these bills out of here and to the House and to the Senate. So if you would just let us know, and we will accommodate your schedule any possible way that we can. And Mark will also contact other members who are on the committee and figure out if they want to run a bill or if they want to place it on deferred as well. So with that, Representative Lampkin, if you are ready, ma'am, if you would be so kind as to head to the end of the table.
And when you are prepared, you are recognized to present House Bill 1535. Thank
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you, Mr. Speaker. I have today House Bill 1535, and this is a Department of Education bill. It says it's an act to amend the Free Textbook Act of 1975 and for other purposes. And most of what it does is it's language.
For example, the definition of instructional materials is changed to explicitly include textbooks, and instructional material is used throughout the subchapter to encompass all instructional materials. The current law often says textbooks and other instructional materials, and that's redundant. Technology-based materials and digital resources were used to refer to the same materials, so the statute was clarified to call all of these technology-based materials. Technology-based materials are included in instructional materials,
so this sort of clears up some of the language. The bill also eliminates the state textbook selection committee and adoption process. It requires that each publisher sell its instructional materials in Arkansas at the lowest contracted price currently bid in another state because the purposes of the state selection committee and adoption process was largely to keep prices consistent throughout the state. And I do have a fiscal impact statement. It says that it's based on current policy. They think the impact will be positive for the Department of Ed
because approximately $10,000 per year would be saved by eliminating the state selection committee. Thank you,
Representative Lampkin. Committee, do we have any questions in regard to House Bill 1535? Representative Lauer, you're recognized, sir. Yes, thank you, Mr. Chairman. So we
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do save money by eliminating it on the state level, I know a lot of us agree that local control is best, but aren't we really missing a very important part of textbook selection, and that is the input of professionals from all over the state?
Because if I read this correctly, each school district is going to be able to make their own decisions about which textbooks they're going to use for their programs, correct? Yes, which materials, yes. Which materials, but that would include textbooks? Yes. Okay. So that does, that's a dramatic change of moving away from state textbook recommendations, correct? Yes, it's given more local control. Okay. And it also impacts any move that we make into the use of e-books, for instance.
School districts, some school districts, maybe not here in Arkansas, but they're starting to look at that potential of being able to have the textbook on an iPad or whatever. Is that a technology that we should entrust just to local control and not want to have state input on that? Well, I would think so. But let
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me get Mr. Wood up here because he's the expert on this. Okay, thank you. Or someone from the department.
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Mr. Wood and company, you are recognized. Tony Wood of
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the Department of Education. Currently, local districts can make that decision now in regard to textbooks. One of the earlier comments.
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Just to follow up, please. Now, when you say in response to the earlier comments, in terms of local school districts making the decision of what textbooks could be used, that's already allowed?
Yes, sir. Okay. Okay. So can I read by that, then, that the department just feels like that the process that we've gone through for a long time of having a state textbook selection process has been unnecessary? I
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think it's more reflective of the direction in which instruction is moving as opposed to it having been unnecessary. The local districts will still have the option in regard to use of textbooks.
Nothing has changed in regard to that as well as making a local decision. I think it just clears up as far as the definition of instructional materials and being inclusive specifically that that is inclusive of textbooks. Okay. I'd say one more follow-up.
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going to open up and I understand you're saying that this has already been allowed but we're basically putting a stamp of approval on this process
aren't the buying decision for instance you may have a lot more varieties of textbooks for say social studies is that not going to increase the cost to that school district if, for instance, the publisher is only being able to convince three school districts to use their book, but 45 other school districts are using another textbook. I mean, how can you – I think that there's something in there that talks about equalization
or making sure that the price is levelized. How can we force a publisher that's only been able to convince three school districts to buy their textbook to be able to keep that price at the same level as one where or 50 or more school districts are using another
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textbook. Should this become statute in regard to them complying with state law, if they sold the textbooks in Texas for X, they'd be required to do the same here in Arkansas, regardless if only one district chose to use that textbook. That's why that provision is contained within the bill.
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Okay, so it's not related to the price in Arkansas. It's whatever they charge in any other state, they're going to have to
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charge the same price. That's correct. Okay, thank you. Thank
Representative Les "Skip" Carnine
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you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Representative Lowry. Representative Carnot. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I just wanted to clarify again, if I can, Mr. Wood, that the digital piece is intact. It's inclusive in the language. Yes, sir. That's correct. I just wanted to be sure that's understood. Yes, sir.
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Thank you. Thank you, Representative Carnot.
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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Representative Deffenbaugh. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Representative Lamb, you know, one
thought we're talking here, is there any, it might be a hard question to ask, but are there any, you know, guidelines or things in place? Let's just say the community has a strong special interest influence. Is there anything to keep them from designing their textbooks along those lines?
You know, if you have, do you know what I'm asking? you want
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me to respond yes I'm not sure I think I understand the question no sir it's that's still an issue of local control
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and and the trust that that local board elected by the patrons of that school district will will make
an appropriate decision thank you thank you representative different by
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represent Viviano thank you mr. chairman mr. wood I know you say we have local
control to select the textbooks the Department of Education provide
a preferred list or recommended list to those school districts do you mean should this
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become legislation yes no sir okay so you would you would
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you would still provide any guidance I know you do it would you not continue to do that? No, sir. In form of guidance? No, sir. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Representative
Biviana. Do we have any other
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questions from the committee? Representative Lenderman. Thank you,
Mr. Chair. I was – first question is on page 5, lines 19 through 21. All publishers doing business in Arkansas shall maintain one or more book depositories at the publisher's expense in this state. Does this also, what are we doing with those people that supply e-books?
I mean, are they required to have some kind of physical presence
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in our state also? I can't answer that. Representative Mark Wyatt, Staff Attorney for the Department, if you have an electronic publisher who has no physical presence in Arkansas, then it gets to be a gray area of whether or not we can exercise that control over that publisher. Certainly if they have a physical presence in Arkansas or other significant connections with our state, we can. But we thought it best to go
ahead and leave this requirement in the law for now. And if an electronic publisher at one point challenge that we'll just we'll cross that bridge if we get to it but I would expect
Representative Homer Lenderman
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that would not become an issue okay thank you follow-up please I was blessed to be one of the first to get a smart board at Brooklyn and we had a lot of those things that were available to us and and so my question is especially with ebooks I felt it was a wonderful teaching tool are we having school
districts that show savings by using the e-books and do they have the technology where those kids can take either pads or whatever home with them so that they could hopefully do a little homework like representative car nine has to do
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in regards specifics on cost savings I don't have that information and the second part of the question there are some districts that that's available to students and in some districts it's not okay thank you thank you mr.
chair thank Thank you, Representative Linderman. Do we have any other questions from the committee?
Seeing none, is there anyone in the audience who wishes to speak against the bill? Anyone who wishes to speak for the bill? Representative Carnine, do you have a motion, sir? We have a motion do. Pass. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion passes. Thank you very much, Representative Lampkin. One more announcement before we adjourn committee. We will be meeting today with the Senate Ed Committee, 3 p.m. in room 171, the old joint budget. It's very important for us to be there.
So I just ask you, with your schedule permitting, to be there today, 3 o'clock, 171. We will be talking about adequacy with the Senate Ed Committee. With that, the Chair will then obtain a motion to adjourn.
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PRESENTATION REGARDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF "GREEN" SCHOOL FACILITIES IN THE VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT
HB1535
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Representative James McLean Chair
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Representative Dan M. Douglas
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Representative Sheilla E. Lampkin
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Representative Les "Skip" Carnine
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Representative Gary Deffenbaugh
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Representative Homer Lenderman
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