November 17, 2008
MEETING NOTICE
Senator Ray Holmberg, Chairman, has called a meeting of the BUDGET SECTION.
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Time: After adjournment of the organizational session, tentatively scheduled for 11:00 a.m.
Place: Senate Chamber, State Capitol, Bismarck
Agenda: Presentations by representatives of the Office of Management and Budget regarding the status of the
state general fund, tobacco settlement proceeds, irregularities in the fiscal practices of the state,
executive budget revenue forecast for the 2009-11 biennium, plans for the legislative revised revenue
forecast on February 9, 2009, a review of the appropriation bill format, the 2009-11 executive budget
recommendations, and specified commodities and services exempted from the procurement
requirements of North Dakota Century Code Chapter 54-44.4; by a representative of the Department of
Human Services regarding the status of the Medicaid management information system; by
representatives of Economy.com regarding economic assumptions included in the executive budget
revenue forecast for the 2009-11 biennium; North Dakota's economic outlook, including oil prices and
agriculture commodity prices; and the impact of the state's oil industry on state revenues; by a
representative of the Veterans Home on the status of the Veterans Home construction project; by a
representative of the Industrial Commission regarding revenues and expenditures of the abandoned oil
and gas well plugging and site reclamation fund; the geophysical, geothermal, subsurface minerals, and
coal exploration fund; and the geologic data preservation fund for the 2007-09 biennium; by a
representative of the Game and Fish Department regarding a report on the recruitment and retention of
hunters in North Dakota; and consideration of state agency requests that have been authorized by the
Emergency Commission and require Budget Section approval
Special Note: Anyone who plans to attend the meeting and needs assistance because of a disability should
contact the Legislative Council staff as soon as possible.
Committee Members: Committee membership will be announced during the organizational session,
December 1-3, 2008.
Staff Contacts: Sheila M. Sandness, Fiscal Analyst
Allen H. Knudson, Legislative Budget Analyst and Auditor
Sincerely,
Jim W. Smith
Director
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Obama Names Educational Leaders
From the November 19, 2008 issue of Politico
Obama Team Names Policy Group Leaders
ormer deputy National Security Adviser James Steinberg and former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Carol Browner were among a group of leaders of policy working groups announced by the Obama-Biden transition team Wednesday.
Full memo follows:
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Obama-Biden Transition Team announced leaders for a series of Policy Working Groups for the Presidential Transition.
The focus of the Policy Working Groups will be to develop the priority policy proposals and plans from the Obama Campaign for action during the Obama-Biden Administration. The Policy Working Groups will focus on the following areas: Economy, Education, Energy and Environment, Health Care, Immigration, National Security, and Technology, Innovation and Government Reform.
The list of Policy Working Group Leaders and their biographies are below:
Economic: Daniel K. Tarullo
Education: Linda Darling-Hammond
Energy and Environment: Carol M. Browner
Health Care: Senator Tom Daschle
Immigration: T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
National Security: James B. Steinberg, Dr. Susan E. Rice
Technology, Innovation and Government Reform: Sonal Shah, Julius Genachowski, Blair Levin
The Policy Working Group Leaders can also be viewed here.
ECONOMIC:
Daniel K. Tarullo is Professor of Law at Georgetown University. He teaches and writes in the areas of banking law, international economic regulation, and economic policymaking. From 1993 to 1998 he was, successively, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and Assistant to the President for International Economic Policy. From 1995 to 1998 he was also President Clinton’s personal representative to the G7/G8 group of industrialized nations. Prior to joining the Administration, he practiced law, served on the staff of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and taught at Harvard Law School.
EDUCATION:
Linda Darling-Hammond
Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where she has launched the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and the School Redesign Network. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of school reform, teaching quality and educational equity. She is a former president of the American Educational Research Association and member of the executive board of the National Academy of Education. She has been a leader in the standards movement, chairing both the New York State Curriculum and Assessment Council as it adopted new standards and assessments for students and the Interstate New Teachers Support and Assessment Council (INTASC) as it developed new standards for teachers. From 1994-2001, she served as executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, a blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report, What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future, was named in 2006 as one of the most influential affecting U.S. education, and Darling-Hammond was named one of the nation’s ten most influential people affecting educational policy. She received her BA from Yale University, magna cum laude, in 1973 and her Doctorate in Urban Education from Temple University in 1978. She began her career as a public school teacher.
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT:
Carol M. Browner
Carol M. Browner is the longest serving Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency serving from 1993 to 2001. Prior to that, she served as Florida Secretary of the Environment. Browner is a founder and principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm and of Albright Capital Management, an investment advisory firm that focuses on emerging markets. Browner serves as the chair of the National Audubon Society Board of Directors, and sits on the Board of Directors of APX, the Alliance for Climate Protection, the Center for American Progress and the League of Conservation Voters.
HEALTH CARE:
Senator Tom Daschle
Currently, Senator Tom Daschle is an advisor to the law firm of Alston and Bird, where he provides strategic advice on public policy issues such as climate change, energy, health care, trade, financial services, and telecommunications. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for American Progress, a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University and a public speaker. In 2007, he joined with former Majority Leaders George Mitchell, Bob Dole, and Howard Baker to create the Bipartisan Policy Center, an organization dedicated to finding common ground on some of the pressing public policy challenges of our time. He is also Co-Chair of the ONE Vote ’08 Campaign, along with former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, to address health and poverty in the developing world in a more aggressive and successful way.
Daschle was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978, serving eight years. In 1986, Daschle was elected to the U.S. Senate. Two years later he became the first Co-Chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee and the first South Dakotan to be elected to a leadership position in the U.S. Congress. In 1994, Daschle was elected by his colleagues as their Democratic Leader. Daschle is one of the longest-serving Senate Democratic Leaders in history and the only one to serve twice as both Majority and Minority Leader.
IMMIGRATION:
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
T. Alexander Aleinikoff has been Dean of the Georgetown University Law Center and Executive Vice President of Georgetown University since July 2004. He has been a member of the Georgetown faculty since 1997. Dean Aleinikoff served as General Counsel and Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs at the Immigration and Naturalization Service for several years during the Clinton Administration. From 1997 to 2004 he was a Senior Associate at the Migration Policy Institute, where he now serves on the Board of Trustees. He has written widely on immigration, refugee and citizenship law and constitutional law. Dean Aleinikoff is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Yale Law School.
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar is Professor and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. His work focuses on how organizations manage complex regulatory, migration, international security, and criminal justice problems. During the Clinton Administration he served at Treasury as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Enforcement, where he worked on countering domestic and international financial crime, improving border coordination, and enhancing anti-corruption measures. He has served on the boards of numerous organizations, including Asylum Access and the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation. He has testified before Congress on immigration policy and separation of powers, and was appointed to the Silicon Valley Blue Ribbon Task Force on Aviation Security. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
NATIONAL SECURITY:
James B. Steinberg
James B. Steinberg is dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs (2006-present) and is a former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Clinton (1996-2000). His previous positions include vice president and director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution (2001-2005), director of the Policy Planning Staff (1994-1996) and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regional Analysis in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1993-1994) at the U.S. Department of State. He is the author of and contributor to many books on foreign policy and national security topics, including, most recently, with Kurt Campbell, Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Power.
Dr. Susan E. Rice
Dr. Susan E. Rice served most recently as a Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Obama for America campaign while on leave from the Brookings Institution where she is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development Programs. Rice currently serves on the Obama-Biden Transition Project Advisory Board. From 1997-2001, she was U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Prior to that, Rice served in the White House at the National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs and as Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping. Rice was previously a management consultant at McKinsey and Company. She received her B.A. in History with Honors from Stanford University and her M.Phil. and D.Phil. (Ph.D.) degrees in International Relations from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.
TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION & GOVERNMENT REFORM:
Blair Levin
Blair Levin is a Managing Director of Stifel Nicolaus and serves as the firm’s principal telecom, media and tech regulatory and strategy analyst. Prior to his work as an analyst, Mr. Levin served as Chief of Staff to Chairman Reed Hundt at the Federal Communications Commission from 1993 through 1997. Before joining the FCC, Levin was a partner in the North Carolina law firm of Parker Poe, Poe, Adams and Bernstein.
Sonal Shah
Sonal Shah heads Google.org’s global development efforts. Prior to joining Google, she was Vice President at Goldman, Sachs and Co. developing and implementing the firm’s environmental policy. She is also the co-founder of Indicorps, a U.S.-based non-profit organization offering one-year fellowships Indian-Americans to work on development projects in India. Sonal also worked at the Center for American Progress on trade, outsourcing and post conflict issues and the Center for Global Development on development policy issues. Sonal worked at the Department of Treasury from 1995-2002 on various economic issues and regions of the world, including Bosnia, Kosovo, the Asian crisis and sub-Saharan Africa. During that time she also worked at the National Security Council from 1998-1999. Sonal received her BA in economics from the University of Chicago and her MA in economics from Duke University. She is on the Obama-Biden Transition Project Advisory Board.
Julius Genachowski
Julius Genachowski is co-founder of Rock Creek Ventures and LaunchBox Digital, a special advisor at General Atlantic, and a member of various boards of directors and advisors. From 1997 to 2005, he was a senior executive at IAC/InterActiveCorp, where his roles included Chief of Business Operations, General Counsel, and a member of the Office of the Chairman. Genachowski served at the Federal Communications Commission from 1994 to 1997, including as Chief Counsel to the Chairman. >From 1991 to 1994 he served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. (ret.), and to Chief Judge Abner J. Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He worked in Congress from 1985 to 1988, for Sen. Charles E. Schumer (then a U.S. Representative), and for the joint select committe on the Iran-Contra Affair. He is a on the Obama-Biden Transition Project Advisory Board.
Alyssa J. Mangino
Communications Manager
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Obama Team Names Policy Group Leaders
ormer deputy National Security Adviser James Steinberg and former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Carol Browner were among a group of leaders of policy working groups announced by the Obama-Biden transition team Wednesday.
Full memo follows:
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Obama-Biden Transition Team announced leaders for a series of Policy Working Groups for the Presidential Transition.
The focus of the Policy Working Groups will be to develop the priority policy proposals and plans from the Obama Campaign for action during the Obama-Biden Administration. The Policy Working Groups will focus on the following areas: Economy, Education, Energy and Environment, Health Care, Immigration, National Security, and Technology, Innovation and Government Reform.
The list of Policy Working Group Leaders and their biographies are below:
Economic: Daniel K. Tarullo
Education: Linda Darling-Hammond
Energy and Environment: Carol M. Browner
Health Care: Senator Tom Daschle
Immigration: T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
National Security: James B. Steinberg, Dr. Susan E. Rice
Technology, Innovation and Government Reform: Sonal Shah, Julius Genachowski, Blair Levin
The Policy Working Group Leaders can also be viewed here.
ECONOMIC:
Daniel K. Tarullo is Professor of Law at Georgetown University. He teaches and writes in the areas of banking law, international economic regulation, and economic policymaking. From 1993 to 1998 he was, successively, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and Assistant to the President for International Economic Policy. From 1995 to 1998 he was also President Clinton’s personal representative to the G7/G8 group of industrialized nations. Prior to joining the Administration, he practiced law, served on the staff of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and taught at Harvard Law School.
EDUCATION:
Linda Darling-Hammond
Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where she has launched the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and the School Redesign Network. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of school reform, teaching quality and educational equity. She is a former president of the American Educational Research Association and member of the executive board of the National Academy of Education. She has been a leader in the standards movement, chairing both the New York State Curriculum and Assessment Council as it adopted new standards and assessments for students and the Interstate New Teachers Support and Assessment Council (INTASC) as it developed new standards for teachers. From 1994-2001, she served as executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, a blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report, What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future, was named in 2006 as one of the most influential affecting U.S. education, and Darling-Hammond was named one of the nation’s ten most influential people affecting educational policy. She received her BA from Yale University, magna cum laude, in 1973 and her Doctorate in Urban Education from Temple University in 1978. She began her career as a public school teacher.
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT:
Carol M. Browner
Carol M. Browner is the longest serving Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency serving from 1993 to 2001. Prior to that, she served as Florida Secretary of the Environment. Browner is a founder and principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm and of Albright Capital Management, an investment advisory firm that focuses on emerging markets. Browner serves as the chair of the National Audubon Society Board of Directors, and sits on the Board of Directors of APX, the Alliance for Climate Protection, the Center for American Progress and the League of Conservation Voters.
HEALTH CARE:
Senator Tom Daschle
Currently, Senator Tom Daschle is an advisor to the law firm of Alston and Bird, where he provides strategic advice on public policy issues such as climate change, energy, health care, trade, financial services, and telecommunications. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for American Progress, a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University and a public speaker. In 2007, he joined with former Majority Leaders George Mitchell, Bob Dole, and Howard Baker to create the Bipartisan Policy Center, an organization dedicated to finding common ground on some of the pressing public policy challenges of our time. He is also Co-Chair of the ONE Vote ’08 Campaign, along with former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, to address health and poverty in the developing world in a more aggressive and successful way.
Daschle was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978, serving eight years. In 1986, Daschle was elected to the U.S. Senate. Two years later he became the first Co-Chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee and the first South Dakotan to be elected to a leadership position in the U.S. Congress. In 1994, Daschle was elected by his colleagues as their Democratic Leader. Daschle is one of the longest-serving Senate Democratic Leaders in history and the only one to serve twice as both Majority and Minority Leader.
IMMIGRATION:
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
T. Alexander Aleinikoff has been Dean of the Georgetown University Law Center and Executive Vice President of Georgetown University since July 2004. He has been a member of the Georgetown faculty since 1997. Dean Aleinikoff served as General Counsel and Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs at the Immigration and Naturalization Service for several years during the Clinton Administration. From 1997 to 2004 he was a Senior Associate at the Migration Policy Institute, where he now serves on the Board of Trustees. He has written widely on immigration, refugee and citizenship law and constitutional law. Dean Aleinikoff is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Yale Law School.
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar is Professor and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. His work focuses on how organizations manage complex regulatory, migration, international security, and criminal justice problems. During the Clinton Administration he served at Treasury as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Enforcement, where he worked on countering domestic and international financial crime, improving border coordination, and enhancing anti-corruption measures. He has served on the boards of numerous organizations, including Asylum Access and the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation. He has testified before Congress on immigration policy and separation of powers, and was appointed to the Silicon Valley Blue Ribbon Task Force on Aviation Security. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
NATIONAL SECURITY:
James B. Steinberg
James B. Steinberg is dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs (2006-present) and is a former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Clinton (1996-2000). His previous positions include vice president and director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution (2001-2005), director of the Policy Planning Staff (1994-1996) and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regional Analysis in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1993-1994) at the U.S. Department of State. He is the author of and contributor to many books on foreign policy and national security topics, including, most recently, with Kurt Campbell, Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Power.
Dr. Susan E. Rice
Dr. Susan E. Rice served most recently as a Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Obama for America campaign while on leave from the Brookings Institution where she is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development Programs. Rice currently serves on the Obama-Biden Transition Project Advisory Board. From 1997-2001, she was U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Prior to that, Rice served in the White House at the National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs and as Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping. Rice was previously a management consultant at McKinsey and Company. She received her B.A. in History with Honors from Stanford University and her M.Phil. and D.Phil. (Ph.D.) degrees in International Relations from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.
TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION & GOVERNMENT REFORM:
Blair Levin
Blair Levin is a Managing Director of Stifel Nicolaus and serves as the firm’s principal telecom, media and tech regulatory and strategy analyst. Prior to his work as an analyst, Mr. Levin served as Chief of Staff to Chairman Reed Hundt at the Federal Communications Commission from 1993 through 1997. Before joining the FCC, Levin was a partner in the North Carolina law firm of Parker Poe, Poe, Adams and Bernstein.
Sonal Shah
Sonal Shah heads Google.org’s global development efforts. Prior to joining Google, she was Vice President at Goldman, Sachs and Co. developing and implementing the firm’s environmental policy. She is also the co-founder of Indicorps, a U.S.-based non-profit organization offering one-year fellowships Indian-Americans to work on development projects in India. Sonal also worked at the Center for American Progress on trade, outsourcing and post conflict issues and the Center for Global Development on development policy issues. Sonal worked at the Department of Treasury from 1995-2002 on various economic issues and regions of the world, including Bosnia, Kosovo, the Asian crisis and sub-Saharan Africa. During that time she also worked at the National Security Council from 1998-1999. Sonal received her BA in economics from the University of Chicago and her MA in economics from Duke University. She is on the Obama-Biden Transition Project Advisory Board.
Julius Genachowski
Julius Genachowski is co-founder of Rock Creek Ventures and LaunchBox Digital, a special advisor at General Atlantic, and a member of various boards of directors and advisors. From 1997 to 2005, he was a senior executive at IAC/InterActiveCorp, where his roles included Chief of Business Operations, General Counsel, and a member of the Office of the Chairman. Genachowski served at the Federal Communications Commission from 1994 to 1997, including as Chief Counsel to the Chairman. >From 1991 to 1994 he served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. (ret.), and to Chief Judge Abner J. Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He worked in Congress from 1985 to 1988, for Sen. Charles E. Schumer (then a U.S. Representative), and for the joint select committe on the Iran-Contra Affair. He is a on the Obama-Biden Transition Project Advisory Board.
Alyssa J. Mangino
Communications Manager
AACTE
1307 New York Ave., NW Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005
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(202) 457-8095 -Fax
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Obama Names Educational Leaders
From the November 19, 2008 issue of Politico
Obama Team Names Policy Group Leaders
ormer deputy National Security Adviser James Steinberg and former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Carol Browner were among a group of leaders of policy working groups announced by the Obama-Biden transition team Wednesday.
Full memo follows:
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Obama-Biden Transition Team announced leaders for a series of Policy Working Groups for the Presidential Transition.
The focus of the Policy Working Groups will be to develop the priority policy proposals and plans from the Obama Campaign for action during the Obama-Biden Administration. The Policy Working Groups will focus on the following areas: Economy, Education, Energy and Environment, Health Care, Immigration, National Security, and Technology, Innovation and Government Reform.
The list of Policy Working Group Leaders and their biographies are below:
Economic: Daniel K. Tarullo
Education: Linda Darling-Hammond
Energy and Environment: Carol M. Browner
Health Care: Senator Tom Daschle
Immigration: T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
National Security: James B. Steinberg, Dr. Susan E. Rice
Technology, Innovation and Government Reform: Sonal Shah, Julius Genachowski, Blair Levin
The Policy Working Group Leaders can also be viewed here.
ECONOMIC:
Daniel K. Tarullo is Professor of Law at Georgetown University. He teaches and writes in the areas of banking law, international economic regulation, and economic policymaking. From 1993 to 1998 he was, successively, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and Assistant to the President for International Economic Policy. From 1995 to 1998 he was also President Clinton’s personal representative to the G7/G8 group of industrialized nations. Prior to joining the Administration, he practiced law, served on the staff of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and taught at Harvard Law School.
EDUCATION:
Linda Darling-Hammond
Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where she has launched the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and the School Redesign Network. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of school reform, teaching quality and educational equity. She is a former president of the American Educational Research Association and member of the executive board of the National Academy of Education. She has been a leader in the standards movement, chairing both the New York State Curriculum and Assessment Council as it adopted new standards and assessments for students and the Interstate New Teachers Support and Assessment Council (INTASC) as it developed new standards for teachers. From 1994-2001, she served as executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, a blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report, What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future, was named in 2006 as one of the most influential affecting U.S. education, and Darling-Hammond was named one of the nation’s ten most influential people affecting educational policy. She received her BA from Yale University, magna cum laude, in 1973 and her Doctorate in Urban Education from Temple University in 1978. She began her career as a public school teacher.
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT:
Carol M. Browner
Carol M. Browner is the longest serving Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency serving from 1993 to 2001. Prior to that, she served as Florida Secretary of the Environment. Browner is a founder and principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm and of Albright Capital Management, an investment advisory firm that focuses on emerging markets. Browner serves as the chair of the National Audubon Society Board of Directors, and sits on the Board of Directors of APX, the Alliance for Climate Protection, the Center for American Progress and the League of Conservation Voters.
HEALTH CARE:
Senator Tom Daschle
Currently, Senator Tom Daschle is an advisor to the law firm of Alston and Bird, where he provides strategic advice on public policy issues such as climate change, energy, health care, trade, financial services, and telecommunications. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for American Progress, a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University and a public speaker. In 2007, he joined with former Majority Leaders George Mitchell, Bob Dole, and Howard Baker to create the Bipartisan Policy Center, an organization dedicated to finding common ground on some of the pressing public policy challenges of our time. He is also Co-Chair of the ONE Vote ’08 Campaign, along with former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, to address health and poverty in the developing world in a more aggressive and successful way.
Daschle was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978, serving eight years. In 1986, Daschle was elected to the U.S. Senate. Two years later he became the first Co-Chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee and the first South Dakotan to be elected to a leadership position in the U.S. Congress. In 1994, Daschle was elected by his colleagues as their Democratic Leader. Daschle is one of the longest-serving Senate Democratic Leaders in history and the only one to serve twice as both Majority and Minority Leader.
IMMIGRATION:
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
T. Alexander Aleinikoff has been Dean of the Georgetown University Law Center and Executive Vice President of Georgetown University since July 2004. He has been a member of the Georgetown faculty since 1997. Dean Aleinikoff served as General Counsel and Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs at the Immigration and Naturalization Service for several years during the Clinton Administration. From 1997 to 2004 he was a Senior Associate at the Migration Policy Institute, where he now serves on the Board of Trustees. He has written widely on immigration, refugee and citizenship law and constitutional law. Dean Aleinikoff is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Yale Law School.
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar is Professor and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. His work focuses on how organizations manage complex regulatory, migration, international security, and criminal justice problems. During the Clinton Administration he served at Treasury as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Enforcement, where he worked on countering domestic and international financial crime, improving border coordination, and enhancing anti-corruption measures. He has served on the boards of numerous organizations, including Asylum Access and the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation. He has testified before Congress on immigration policy and separation of powers, and was appointed to the Silicon Valley Blue Ribbon Task Force on Aviation Security. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
NATIONAL SECURITY:
James B. Steinberg
James B. Steinberg is dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs (2006-present) and is a former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Clinton (1996-2000). His previous positions include vice president and director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution (2001-2005), director of the Policy Planning Staff (1994-1996) and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regional Analysis in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1993-1994) at the U.S. Department of State. He is the author of and contributor to many books on foreign policy and national security topics, including, most recently, with Kurt Campbell, Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Power.
Dr. Susan E. Rice
Dr. Susan E. Rice served most recently as a Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Obama for America campaign while on leave from the Brookings Institution where she is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development Programs. Rice currently serves on the Obama-Biden Transition Project Advisory Board. From 1997-2001, she was U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Prior to that, Rice served in the White House at the National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs and as Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping. Rice was previously a management consultant at McKinsey and Company. She received her B.A. in History with Honors from Stanford University and her M.Phil. and D.Phil. (Ph.D.) degrees in International Relations from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.
TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION & GOVERNMENT REFORM:
Blair Levin
Blair Levin is a Managing Director of Stifel Nicolaus and serves as the firm’s principal telecom, media and tech regulatory and strategy analyst. Prior to his work as an analyst, Mr. Levin served as Chief of Staff to Chairman Reed Hundt at the Federal Communications Commission from 1993 through 1997. Before joining the FCC, Levin was a partner in the North Carolina law firm of Parker Poe, Poe, Adams and Bernstein.
Sonal Shah
Sonal Shah heads Google.org’s global development efforts. Prior to joining Google, she was Vice President at Goldman, Sachs and Co. developing and implementing the firm’s environmental policy. She is also the co-founder of Indicorps, a U.S.-based non-profit organization offering one-year fellowships Indian-Americans to work on development projects in India. Sonal also worked at the Center for American Progress on trade, outsourcing and post conflict issues and the Center for Global Development on development policy issues. Sonal worked at the Department of Treasury from 1995-2002 on various economic issues and regions of the world, including Bosnia, Kosovo, the Asian crisis and sub-Saharan Africa. During that time she also worked at the National Security Council from 1998-1999. Sonal received her BA in economics from the University of Chicago and her MA in economics from Duke University. She is on the Obama-Biden Transition Project Advisory Board.
Julius Genachowski
Julius Genachowski is co-founder of Rock Creek Ventures and LaunchBox Digital, a special advisor at General Atlantic, and a member of various boards of directors and advisors. From 1997 to 2005, he was a senior executive at IAC/InterActiveCorp, where his roles included Chief of Business Operations, General Counsel, and a member of the Office of the Chairman. Genachowski served at the Federal Communications Commission from 1994 to 1997, including as Chief Counsel to the Chairman. >From 1991 to 1994 he served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. (ret.), and to Chief Judge Abner J. Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He worked in Congress from 1985 to 1988, for Sen. Charles E. Schumer (then a U.S. Representative), and for the joint select committe on the Iran-Contra Affair. He is a on the Obama-Biden Transition Project Advisory Board.
Alyssa J. Mangino
Communications Manager
AACTE
1307 New York Ave., NW Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 478-4596 -Direct
(202) 457-8095 -Fax
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Obama Team Names Policy Group Leaders
ormer deputy National Security Adviser James Steinberg and former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Carol Browner were among a group of leaders of policy working groups announced by the Obama-Biden transition team Wednesday.
Full memo follows:
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Obama-Biden Transition Team announced leaders for a series of Policy Working Groups for the Presidential Transition.
The focus of the Policy Working Groups will be to develop the priority policy proposals and plans from the Obama Campaign for action during the Obama-Biden Administration. The Policy Working Groups will focus on the following areas: Economy, Education, Energy and Environment, Health Care, Immigration, National Security, and Technology, Innovation and Government Reform.
The list of Policy Working Group Leaders and their biographies are below:
Economic: Daniel K. Tarullo
Education: Linda Darling-Hammond
Energy and Environment: Carol M. Browner
Health Care: Senator Tom Daschle
Immigration: T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
National Security: James B. Steinberg, Dr. Susan E. Rice
Technology, Innovation and Government Reform: Sonal Shah, Julius Genachowski, Blair Levin
The Policy Working Group Leaders can also be viewed here.
ECONOMIC:
Daniel K. Tarullo is Professor of Law at Georgetown University. He teaches and writes in the areas of banking law, international economic regulation, and economic policymaking. From 1993 to 1998 he was, successively, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and Assistant to the President for International Economic Policy. From 1995 to 1998 he was also President Clinton’s personal representative to the G7/G8 group of industrialized nations. Prior to joining the Administration, he practiced law, served on the staff of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and taught at Harvard Law School.
EDUCATION:
Linda Darling-Hammond
Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where she has launched the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and the School Redesign Network. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of school reform, teaching quality and educational equity. She is a former president of the American Educational Research Association and member of the executive board of the National Academy of Education. She has been a leader in the standards movement, chairing both the New York State Curriculum and Assessment Council as it adopted new standards and assessments for students and the Interstate New Teachers Support and Assessment Council (INTASC) as it developed new standards for teachers. From 1994-2001, she served as executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, a blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report, What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future, was named in 2006 as one of the most influential affecting U.S. education, and Darling-Hammond was named one of the nation’s ten most influential people affecting educational policy. She received her BA from Yale University, magna cum laude, in 1973 and her Doctorate in Urban Education from Temple University in 1978. She began her career as a public school teacher.
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT:
Carol M. Browner
Carol M. Browner is the longest serving Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency serving from 1993 to 2001. Prior to that, she served as Florida Secretary of the Environment. Browner is a founder and principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm and of Albright Capital Management, an investment advisory firm that focuses on emerging markets. Browner serves as the chair of the National Audubon Society Board of Directors, and sits on the Board of Directors of APX, the Alliance for Climate Protection, the Center for American Progress and the League of Conservation Voters.
HEALTH CARE:
Senator Tom Daschle
Currently, Senator Tom Daschle is an advisor to the law firm of Alston and Bird, where he provides strategic advice on public policy issues such as climate change, energy, health care, trade, financial services, and telecommunications. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for American Progress, a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University and a public speaker. In 2007, he joined with former Majority Leaders George Mitchell, Bob Dole, and Howard Baker to create the Bipartisan Policy Center, an organization dedicated to finding common ground on some of the pressing public policy challenges of our time. He is also Co-Chair of the ONE Vote ’08 Campaign, along with former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, to address health and poverty in the developing world in a more aggressive and successful way.
Daschle was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978, serving eight years. In 1986, Daschle was elected to the U.S. Senate. Two years later he became the first Co-Chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee and the first South Dakotan to be elected to a leadership position in the U.S. Congress. In 1994, Daschle was elected by his colleagues as their Democratic Leader. Daschle is one of the longest-serving Senate Democratic Leaders in history and the only one to serve twice as both Majority and Minority Leader.
IMMIGRATION:
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
T. Alexander Aleinikoff has been Dean of the Georgetown University Law Center and Executive Vice President of Georgetown University since July 2004. He has been a member of the Georgetown faculty since 1997. Dean Aleinikoff served as General Counsel and Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs at the Immigration and Naturalization Service for several years during the Clinton Administration. From 1997 to 2004 he was a Senior Associate at the Migration Policy Institute, where he now serves on the Board of Trustees. He has written widely on immigration, refugee and citizenship law and constitutional law. Dean Aleinikoff is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Yale Law School.
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar is Professor and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. His work focuses on how organizations manage complex regulatory, migration, international security, and criminal justice problems. During the Clinton Administration he served at Treasury as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Enforcement, where he worked on countering domestic and international financial crime, improving border coordination, and enhancing anti-corruption measures. He has served on the boards of numerous organizations, including Asylum Access and the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation. He has testified before Congress on immigration policy and separation of powers, and was appointed to the Silicon Valley Blue Ribbon Task Force on Aviation Security. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
NATIONAL SECURITY:
James B. Steinberg
James B. Steinberg is dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs (2006-present) and is a former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Clinton (1996-2000). His previous positions include vice president and director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution (2001-2005), director of the Policy Planning Staff (1994-1996) and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regional Analysis in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1993-1994) at the U.S. Department of State. He is the author of and contributor to many books on foreign policy and national security topics, including, most recently, with Kurt Campbell, Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Power.
Dr. Susan E. Rice
Dr. Susan E. Rice served most recently as a Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Obama for America campaign while on leave from the Brookings Institution where she is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development Programs. Rice currently serves on the Obama-Biden Transition Project Advisory Board. From 1997-2001, she was U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Prior to that, Rice served in the White House at the National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs and as Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping. Rice was previously a management consultant at McKinsey and Company. She received her B.A. in History with Honors from Stanford University and her M.Phil. and D.Phil. (Ph.D.) degrees in International Relations from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.
TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION & GOVERNMENT REFORM:
Blair Levin
Blair Levin is a Managing Director of Stifel Nicolaus and serves as the firm’s principal telecom, media and tech regulatory and strategy analyst. Prior to his work as an analyst, Mr. Levin served as Chief of Staff to Chairman Reed Hundt at the Federal Communications Commission from 1993 through 1997. Before joining the FCC, Levin was a partner in the North Carolina law firm of Parker Poe, Poe, Adams and Bernstein.
Sonal Shah
Sonal Shah heads Google.org’s global development efforts. Prior to joining Google, she was Vice President at Goldman, Sachs and Co. developing and implementing the firm’s environmental policy. She is also the co-founder of Indicorps, a U.S.-based non-profit organization offering one-year fellowships Indian-Americans to work on development projects in India. Sonal also worked at the Center for American Progress on trade, outsourcing and post conflict issues and the Center for Global Development on development policy issues. Sonal worked at the Department of Treasury from 1995-2002 on various economic issues and regions of the world, including Bosnia, Kosovo, the Asian crisis and sub-Saharan Africa. During that time she also worked at the National Security Council from 1998-1999. Sonal received her BA in economics from the University of Chicago and her MA in economics from Duke University. She is on the Obama-Biden Transition Project Advisory Board.
Julius Genachowski
Julius Genachowski is co-founder of Rock Creek Ventures and LaunchBox Digital, a special advisor at General Atlantic, and a member of various boards of directors and advisors. From 1997 to 2005, he was a senior executive at IAC/InterActiveCorp, where his roles included Chief of Business Operations, General Counsel, and a member of the Office of the Chairman. Genachowski served at the Federal Communications Commission from 1994 to 1997, including as Chief Counsel to the Chairman. >From 1991 to 1994 he served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. (ret.), and to Chief Judge Abner J. Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He worked in Congress from 1985 to 1988, for Sen. Charles E. Schumer (then a U.S. Representative), and for the joint select committe on the Iran-Contra Affair. He is a on the Obama-Biden Transition Project Advisory Board.
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AACTE IN THE NEWS
Tennessee’s Teachers Say “No” To Licensing Shortcuts
From Tennessee News Wire *audio file*
The Tennessee State Board of Education is meeting today and tomorrow to approve a new licensing program designed to address the state’s growing teacher shortage. The proposed transitional license will allow an academic organization to design its own program for selection, training and support of new teachers.
AACTE ANNOUNCEMENTS
AACTE Board Elections
All AACTE Institutional Representatives are eligible to vote for new members of the AACTE Board of Directors, one of the most important benefits of AACTE membership. Please take advantage of this privilege and make your voice heard. For more information please click here.
AACTE Web Conference
AACTE presents "Building an Accreditation Learning Community," a Web Conference for Deans and NCATE Coordinators. From December 2, 2008 through December 4, 2008 participate from the comfort of your own office in this multi– day web event that includes a mix of pre -recorded and live sessions, online chats, and resource sharing on topics such as Assessment Rubrics, Creating the Electronic Exhibit Room, Writing An Institutional Report and preparing for the Visit. For more information about fees and registration, please click here.
NATIONAL NEWS
President-Elect Gets School Policy Advice
From Education Week
While President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team works behind closed doors, education groups are openly trying to influence the next administration’s K-12 policies.
In a series of position statements and strategy memos, diverse groups are offering their advice on how the president-elect can advance legislation and regulations aimed at meeting his goals of expanding access to preschool, improving the quality of teachers, and revising the No Child Left Behind Act.
Struggling Economy Puts Colleges in a Tight Spot
From the Washington Post
At colleges across the country, the economic crisis is playing out in ways large and small, immediate and long-term. It is creating short-term problems that school officials have scurried to patch. And it is creating more-fundamental worries about the future.
CEOs’ Top Demands for Obama: Fix the Economy, Education
From the Wall Street Journal
The 100 CEOs gathered at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council had a clear – and unsurprising – top demand for President-elect Barack Obama: Fix the economy. Fixing the country’s schools came a close second.
Gerstner’s Rx for Schools: Far Fewer Districts, National Standards
From the Wall Street Journal
How to fix the public education system? Run it more like a business, former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner said. Speaking at a lunch panel on education at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council in Washington, Gerstner, who has a longtime interest in education, said the nation’s 16,000 school districts need to be abolished. “When I took over IBM I found out I had 81 profit centers,” he said. “How’d you like to create change with 16,000 profit centers?”
Policy Worker Bees
From National Journal
The Obama-Biden Transition Team announced leaders today for a series of Policy Working Groups. The focus of the groups "will be to develop the priority policy proposals and plans from the Obama Campaign for action during the Obama-Biden Administration."
Spending of Federal Teacher-Quality Funds Questioned
From Education Week
Nearly seven years into its implementation, little information exists on whether the $3 billion the federal government spends annually on teacher quality as part of the No Child Left Behind Act has measurably improved the effectiveness of the nation’s educators, a report scheduled released yesterday concludes.
Gates' New Approach Gets Good Reviews
From Education Week
In unveiling its new strategy for education grantmaking here this week, leaders of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation assured those in attendance that they wanted honest feedback on their new direction. After committing some $2 billion this decade to the cause of improving the nation’s high schools, the foundation intends to refocus its grantmaking efforts in that realm on three pillars: identifying and promoting higher standards for college readiness, improving teacher quality, and fostering innovations to aid struggling students.
SMHC Releases Reports Detailing Progress and Pitfalls in Developing Effective Educators
From Strategic Management of Human Capital
At a press conference led by Governor Pawlenty and former Governor Hunt, SMHC released a series of case studies on five top-performing districts, one state and three organizations. The SMHC Case Studies assess progress on teacher and principal recruitment, selection, and placement; induction and mentoring; professional development; performance management (evaluation); and compensation, and chronicle: Boston, Chicago, Fairfax County, Long Beach, New York, Minnesota’s Q Comp program, Teach For America, New Leaders for New Schools and The New Teacher Project.
Class of 2020: Action Plan for Education
From SETDA
SETDA’s Class of 2020: Action Plan for Education Project includes the development of the five publications listed below designed to create a succinct message addressing technology’s transformative role in education in the hopes of informing future education and workforce development policy at the state and federal levels.
Head of Teachers’ Union Offers to Talk on Tenure and Merit Pay
From the New York Times
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said Monday that given the economic crisis, her union would be willing to discuss new approaches to issues like teacher tenure and merit pay.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
State to toughen rules on teacher training
From Readingeagle.com
Officials at some Pennsylvania colleges and universities say their authority to shape curriculum is being undermined by changes the state wants in the way elementary and middle-school teachers are trained.
Grant funds Native teachers program
The Arctic Sounder
Schools in rural Alaska have long been plagued with an epidemic of high teacher turnover. One plausible solution, some are concluding, is to fight the need to import teachers by training the community’s own.
Mentoring program keeps first-year teachers charged up
From Mail Tribune.com
Peggy Cowens is a mentor with Southern Oregon Education Service District's four-month-old teacher mentoring program. The program, funded by a one-year, $405,000 grant from the state of Oregon, provides professional mentors to first-year teachers in 11 school districts in Jackson, Josephine and Klamath counties. The state Legislature last year appropriated $5 million to hire teacher mentors across the state, with the goal of improving teacher quality and curbing teachers' high attrition rate.
UVM receives $1 million to make education accessible
From Vermont Cynic.com
The University of Vermont was one of 22 schools to receive $1 million to aid faculty in helping students with learning disabilities. Susan Edelman, a research professor at the UVM's Center on Disability and Community Inclusion, and Larry Shelton, a professor in the College of Education and Social Services, applied for the grant from the U.S. Department of Education with the intentions of bringing teaching practices and knowledge to both students and faculty.
Other Announcements
National Academy of Education Sponsors Forum on Education Policy in Transition
On November 19, the National Academy of Education sponsored a briefing to release White papers it has had under development for some time intended to inform policy makers on education issues. The White Papers Project was intended to bring together experts to examine the research base for several key areas of education policy and provide recommendations to policy makers. This initiative represents a landmark effort in attempting to bridge the gap, that is often gaping, between education researchers and policy makers.
Center for American Progress to hold forum entitled Addressing the Teacher Quality Gap on November 20, 2008.
It is no surprise that according to most measures, teachers are inequitably distributed among students. Poor and minority students are more likely to have teachers with less experience and weaker qualifications. Panelists will include Cory Curl, Senior Research Analyst, Governor’s Office of State Planning and Policy (TN); Segun Eubanks, Director, Teacher Quality Department, National Education Association; Dan Goldhaber, Research Professor, University of Washington’s Center on Reinventing Public Education;
Julie Kowal, Senior Consultant, Public Impact; Victoria Van Cleef, Vice President of Staffing Initiatives, The New Teacher Project; and will be moderated by: Robin Chait, Senior Education Policy Analyst, Center for American Progress.
AERA Grants and Fellowship Programs
AERA Grants and Fellowship Programs provide funding to help graduate students and early career scholars develop research skills and conduct studies in education and related fields. Application deadlines for the 2009 competitions are fast approaching! Please follow the links below for more information.
AERA-AIR (A²) Fellows Program
Application deadline: December 15, 2008.
AERA-ETS Fellowship Program in Measurement
Application deadline: December 15, 2008.
· Minority Fellowship Program in Education Research
Application deadline: December 15, 2008.
· AERA Grants Program
The next application deadlines are August 29, 2008; January 7, 2009; and March 6, 2009.
From the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is accepting applications to serve on committees responsible for reviewing and revising standards in two areas: English as a New Language and Social Studies-History. To access the online application click here. The application will be available through December 12, 2008, 5:00pm EST.
For assistance or additional information please contact NBPTS at nominations@nbpts.org.
AACTE 61st ANNUAL MEETING & EXHIBITS
February 6 - 9, 2009
Hyatt Regency Chicago - Virtual Tour
Chicago, IL
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
Click Here to register for the 61st Annual Meeting & Exhibits. This will lead you through creating an account which you can use for future meetings. If you registered for the Accountability, Accreditation, and Quality Conference, Click Here to use the account you set up when registering for that meeting.
Alyssa J. Mangino
Communications Manager
AACTE
1307 New York Ave., NW Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 478-4596 -Direct
(202) 457-8095 -Fax
amangino@aacte.org
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AACTE IN THE NEWS
Tennessee’s Teachers Say “No” To Licensing Shortcuts
From Tennessee News Wire *audio file*
The Tennessee State Board of Education is meeting today and tomorrow to approve a new licensing program designed to address the state’s growing teacher shortage. The proposed transitional license will allow an academic organization to design its own program for selection, training and support of new teachers.
AACTE ANNOUNCEMENTS
AACTE Board Elections
All AACTE Institutional Representatives are eligible to vote for new members of the AACTE Board of Directors, one of the most important benefits of AACTE membership. Please take advantage of this privilege and make your voice heard. For more information please click here.
AACTE Web Conference
AACTE presents "Building an Accreditation Learning Community," a Web Conference for Deans and NCATE Coordinators. From December 2, 2008 through December 4, 2008 participate from the comfort of your own office in this multi– day web event that includes a mix of pre -recorded and live sessions, online chats, and resource sharing on topics such as Assessment Rubrics, Creating the Electronic Exhibit Room, Writing An Institutional Report and preparing for the Visit. For more information about fees and registration, please click here.
NATIONAL NEWS
President-Elect Gets School Policy Advice
From Education Week
While President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team works behind closed doors, education groups are openly trying to influence the next administration’s K-12 policies.
In a series of position statements and strategy memos, diverse groups are offering their advice on how the president-elect can advance legislation and regulations aimed at meeting his goals of expanding access to preschool, improving the quality of teachers, and revising the No Child Left Behind Act.
Struggling Economy Puts Colleges in a Tight Spot
From the Washington Post
At colleges across the country, the economic crisis is playing out in ways large and small, immediate and long-term. It is creating short-term problems that school officials have scurried to patch. And it is creating more-fundamental worries about the future.
CEOs’ Top Demands for Obama: Fix the Economy, Education
From the Wall Street Journal
The 100 CEOs gathered at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council had a clear – and unsurprising – top demand for President-elect Barack Obama: Fix the economy. Fixing the country’s schools came a close second.
Gerstner’s Rx for Schools: Far Fewer Districts, National Standards
From the Wall Street Journal
How to fix the public education system? Run it more like a business, former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner said. Speaking at a lunch panel on education at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council in Washington, Gerstner, who has a longtime interest in education, said the nation’s 16,000 school districts need to be abolished. “When I took over IBM I found out I had 81 profit centers,” he said. “How’d you like to create change with 16,000 profit centers?”
Policy Worker Bees
From National Journal
The Obama-Biden Transition Team announced leaders today for a series of Policy Working Groups. The focus of the groups "will be to develop the priority policy proposals and plans from the Obama Campaign for action during the Obama-Biden Administration."
Spending of Federal Teacher-Quality Funds Questioned
From Education Week
Nearly seven years into its implementation, little information exists on whether the $3 billion the federal government spends annually on teacher quality as part of the No Child Left Behind Act has measurably improved the effectiveness of the nation’s educators, a report scheduled released yesterday concludes.
Gates' New Approach Gets Good Reviews
From Education Week
In unveiling its new strategy for education grantmaking here this week, leaders of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation assured those in attendance that they wanted honest feedback on their new direction. After committing some $2 billion this decade to the cause of improving the nation’s high schools, the foundation intends to refocus its grantmaking efforts in that realm on three pillars: identifying and promoting higher standards for college readiness, improving teacher quality, and fostering innovations to aid struggling students.
SMHC Releases Reports Detailing Progress and Pitfalls in Developing Effective Educators
From Strategic Management of Human Capital
At a press conference led by Governor Pawlenty and former Governor Hunt, SMHC released a series of case studies on five top-performing districts, one state and three organizations. The SMHC Case Studies assess progress on teacher and principal recruitment, selection, and placement; induction and mentoring; professional development; performance management (evaluation); and compensation, and chronicle: Boston, Chicago, Fairfax County, Long Beach, New York, Minnesota’s Q Comp program, Teach For America, New Leaders for New Schools and The New Teacher Project.
Class of 2020: Action Plan for Education
From SETDA
SETDA’s Class of 2020: Action Plan for Education Project includes the development of the five publications listed below designed to create a succinct message addressing technology’s transformative role in education in the hopes of informing future education and workforce development policy at the state and federal levels.
Head of Teachers’ Union Offers to Talk on Tenure and Merit Pay
From the New York Times
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said Monday that given the economic crisis, her union would be willing to discuss new approaches to issues like teacher tenure and merit pay.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
State to toughen rules on teacher training
From Readingeagle.com
Officials at some Pennsylvania colleges and universities say their authority to shape curriculum is being undermined by changes the state wants in the way elementary and middle-school teachers are trained.
Grant funds Native teachers program
The Arctic Sounder
Schools in rural Alaska have long been plagued with an epidemic of high teacher turnover. One plausible solution, some are concluding, is to fight the need to import teachers by training the community’s own.
Mentoring program keeps first-year teachers charged up
From Mail Tribune.com
Peggy Cowens is a mentor with Southern Oregon Education Service District's four-month-old teacher mentoring program. The program, funded by a one-year, $405,000 grant from the state of Oregon, provides professional mentors to first-year teachers in 11 school districts in Jackson, Josephine and Klamath counties. The state Legislature last year appropriated $5 million to hire teacher mentors across the state, with the goal of improving teacher quality and curbing teachers' high attrition rate.
UVM receives $1 million to make education accessible
From Vermont Cynic.com
The University of Vermont was one of 22 schools to receive $1 million to aid faculty in helping students with learning disabilities. Susan Edelman, a research professor at the UVM's Center on Disability and Community Inclusion, and Larry Shelton, a professor in the College of Education and Social Services, applied for the grant from the U.S. Department of Education with the intentions of bringing teaching practices and knowledge to both students and faculty.
Other Announcements
National Academy of Education Sponsors Forum on Education Policy in Transition
On November 19, the National Academy of Education sponsored a briefing to release White papers it has had under development for some time intended to inform policy makers on education issues. The White Papers Project was intended to bring together experts to examine the research base for several key areas of education policy and provide recommendations to policy makers. This initiative represents a landmark effort in attempting to bridge the gap, that is often gaping, between education researchers and policy makers.
Center for American Progress to hold forum entitled Addressing the Teacher Quality Gap on November 20, 2008.
It is no surprise that according to most measures, teachers are inequitably distributed among students. Poor and minority students are more likely to have teachers with less experience and weaker qualifications. Panelists will include Cory Curl, Senior Research Analyst, Governor’s Office of State Planning and Policy (TN); Segun Eubanks, Director, Teacher Quality Department, National Education Association; Dan Goldhaber, Research Professor, University of Washington’s Center on Reinventing Public Education;
Julie Kowal, Senior Consultant, Public Impact; Victoria Van Cleef, Vice President of Staffing Initiatives, The New Teacher Project; and will be moderated by: Robin Chait, Senior Education Policy Analyst, Center for American Progress.
AERA Grants and Fellowship Programs
AERA Grants and Fellowship Programs provide funding to help graduate students and early career scholars develop research skills and conduct studies in education and related fields. Application deadlines for the 2009 competitions are fast approaching! Please follow the links below for more information.
AERA-AIR (A²) Fellows Program
Application deadline: December 15, 2008.
AERA-ETS Fellowship Program in Measurement
Application deadline: December 15, 2008.
· Minority Fellowship Program in Education Research
Application deadline: December 15, 2008.
· AERA Grants Program
The next application deadlines are August 29, 2008; January 7, 2009; and March 6, 2009.
From the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is accepting applications to serve on committees responsible for reviewing and revising standards in two areas: English as a New Language and Social Studies-History. To access the online application click here. The application will be available through December 12, 2008, 5:00pm EST.
For assistance or additional information please contact NBPTS at nominations@nbpts.org.
AACTE 61st ANNUAL MEETING & EXHIBITS
February 6 - 9, 2009
Hyatt Regency Chicago - Virtual Tour
Chicago, IL
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
Click Here to register for the 61st Annual Meeting & Exhibits. This will lead you through creating an account which you can use for future meetings. If you registered for the Accountability, Accreditation, and Quality Conference, Click Here to use the account you set up when registering for that meeting.
Alyssa J. Mangino
Communications Manager
AACTE
1307 New York Ave., NW Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 478-4596 -Direct
(202) 457-8095 -Fax
amangino@aacte.org
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
November 20 -- An Attitude of Gratitude
Fullness on Thanksgiving will not be from the turkey, stuffing, casseroles and pie, but from a heart full of gratitude.
Gratitude means much more than just pausing briefly before the meal on the fourth Thursday of November to give thanks for one’s blessings. It is an attitude and outlook toward life cultivated through good times and bad.
Dan Millman, author of Way of the Peaceful Warrior, described a time when his mentor, named Socrates, challenged Dan to sit out on a large, flat stone until he had "something of value" to share. Dan sat out on the rock for hours and hours. On more than one occasion, believing he had come up with something, he went to tell Socrates. Each of these times, Socrates decided the statement was not good enough, and he sent Dan back to the rock for more hours of pondering. Finally, Dan had an insight that he knew was something of value. When Dan shared this insight, Socrates looked up, smiled, and welcomed Dan back inside. The "something of value" that Dan had realized was this: "There are no ordinary moments." This is the essence of gratitude. No moment, nothing in life, should be taken for granted. In developing gratitude for every moment -- for the simple joys, and even for the challenging times in our lives -- we come to truly enjoy and appreciate life. Then we are able to see the magic that surrounds us every second of every minute of every day. True gratefulness comes from a conscious decision to recognize your blessings, coupled with the emotional feelings that accompany a thankful heart. An ungrateful person can utter the words "thank you" in protest. A thankful person can hold their gratitude as a guarded secret, yearning to be shared. Grateful people not only count and take joy in their blessings, but they influence others with words and deeds by deliberately displaying their pleasure and appreciation to those who should receive it. Life is full of opportunities for giving thanks. Do you seek them out? Are you remembering to show appreciation to those closest to you? If you complain, you will find yourself with plenty of others to join in. If you live a positive, grateful, successful life, you will attract other positive, grateful, and successful people.
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." John F. Kennedy
Why should you have a good attitude, a positive mindset, in the form of an attitude of gratitude? The most altruistic reasons are for the betterment of humankind. Saying thank you helps others feel good. Another reason to develop an attitude of gratitude is that positive people attract each other. If you are a complainer, you can easily find others to "validate you" in your misery. But consider if you are seeking out those who agree and alienating those who do not. If you display a positive outlook, you will attract positive people. Positive and successful attitudes include at their core appreciation and gratitude.
One further reason is that research shows it is beneficial to your health (Mcollough, Emmons 2003). In this study, one participant group recorded a diary of daily events, another group wrote down unpleasant experiences, and the third group wrote down a daily record listing things for which they were grateful. The gratitude group was more likely to help others, exercise, and complete personal goals, while reporting more determination, optimism, alertness, energy, and enthusiasm. It is interesting to note that this study also found people who take time to deliberately record their gratitude were more likely to feel loved, and found more kindness reciprocated to them as they sent out an increase of kindness from their attitude. Also, grateful people were grateful regardless of whether special events happened in their day or not. In other words, they did not just have moments of gratefulness, but grateful attitudes.
In her November 10th presentation entitled "Developing and Attitude of Gratitude" Deb Harding, LIFE Plan Health and Wellness Coach reminded us of the benefits of this "new" way of thinking—A grateful heart is a healthy heart. She encouraged us to keep a daily Gratitude Journal through the end of November and to record five things each day for which we are grateful.
An Attitude of Gratitude
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November 12, 2008 Thoughts on Gratitude
" A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."
Henry Ward Beecher
"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that
it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich." Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to
always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done
for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed
at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude."
Albert Schweitzer
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It
turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity….It turns problems into
gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important
events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a visions for
tomorrow." Melodie Beattie.
"Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines." Satchel Paige
"If the only prayer you say in your life is "thank you," that would suffice." Meister Eckhart
"A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even
if he lives in paradise." Baha’u’llah
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of all virtues, but the parent of all the others." Cicero
"If you can’t be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape." Unknown
"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little,
and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't
die; so, let us all be thankful." Buddah
"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind." Lionel Hampton
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes
of which all men have some. Charles Dickens
Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more
of the things that you appreciate or value into your life. --Christiane Northrup
Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. --Doris Day
Gratitude means much more than just pausing briefly before the meal on the fourth Thursday of November to give thanks for one’s blessings. It is an attitude and outlook toward life cultivated through good times and bad.
Dan Millman, author of Way of the Peaceful Warrior, described a time when his mentor, named Socrates, challenged Dan to sit out on a large, flat stone until he had "something of value" to share. Dan sat out on the rock for hours and hours. On more than one occasion, believing he had come up with something, he went to tell Socrates. Each of these times, Socrates decided the statement was not good enough, and he sent Dan back to the rock for more hours of pondering. Finally, Dan had an insight that he knew was something of value. When Dan shared this insight, Socrates looked up, smiled, and welcomed Dan back inside. The "something of value" that Dan had realized was this: "There are no ordinary moments." This is the essence of gratitude. No moment, nothing in life, should be taken for granted. In developing gratitude for every moment -- for the simple joys, and even for the challenging times in our lives -- we come to truly enjoy and appreciate life. Then we are able to see the magic that surrounds us every second of every minute of every day. True gratefulness comes from a conscious decision to recognize your blessings, coupled with the emotional feelings that accompany a thankful heart. An ungrateful person can utter the words "thank you" in protest. A thankful person can hold their gratitude as a guarded secret, yearning to be shared. Grateful people not only count and take joy in their blessings, but they influence others with words and deeds by deliberately displaying their pleasure and appreciation to those who should receive it. Life is full of opportunities for giving thanks. Do you seek them out? Are you remembering to show appreciation to those closest to you? If you complain, you will find yourself with plenty of others to join in. If you live a positive, grateful, successful life, you will attract other positive, grateful, and successful people.
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." John F. Kennedy
Why should you have a good attitude, a positive mindset, in the form of an attitude of gratitude? The most altruistic reasons are for the betterment of humankind. Saying thank you helps others feel good. Another reason to develop an attitude of gratitude is that positive people attract each other. If you are a complainer, you can easily find others to "validate you" in your misery. But consider if you are seeking out those who agree and alienating those who do not. If you display a positive outlook, you will attract positive people. Positive and successful attitudes include at their core appreciation and gratitude.
One further reason is that research shows it is beneficial to your health (Mcollough, Emmons 2003). In this study, one participant group recorded a diary of daily events, another group wrote down unpleasant experiences, and the third group wrote down a daily record listing things for which they were grateful. The gratitude group was more likely to help others, exercise, and complete personal goals, while reporting more determination, optimism, alertness, energy, and enthusiasm. It is interesting to note that this study also found people who take time to deliberately record their gratitude were more likely to feel loved, and found more kindness reciprocated to them as they sent out an increase of kindness from their attitude. Also, grateful people were grateful regardless of whether special events happened in their day or not. In other words, they did not just have moments of gratefulness, but grateful attitudes.
In her November 10th presentation entitled "Developing and Attitude of Gratitude" Deb Harding, LIFE Plan Health and Wellness Coach reminded us of the benefits of this "new" way of thinking—A grateful heart is a healthy heart. She encouraged us to keep a daily Gratitude Journal through the end of November and to record five things each day for which we are grateful.
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November 12, 2008 Thoughts on Gratitude
" A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."
Henry Ward Beecher
"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that
it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich." Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to
always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done
for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed
at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude."
Albert Schweitzer
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It
turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity….It turns problems into
gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important
events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a visions for
tomorrow." Melodie Beattie.
"Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines." Satchel Paige
"If the only prayer you say in your life is "thank you," that would suffice." Meister Eckhart
"A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even
if he lives in paradise." Baha’u’llah
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of all virtues, but the parent of all the others." Cicero
"If you can’t be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape." Unknown
"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little,
and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't
die; so, let us all be thankful." Buddah
"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind." Lionel Hampton
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes
of which all men have some. Charles Dickens
Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more
of the things that you appreciate or value into your life. --Christiane Northrup
Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. --Doris Day
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Wednesday, November 19 - Lorie Line Tour ----
The 2008 Holiday Extravaganza
November 14 - 15 Mason City, IA North Iowa Community Auditorium (NIACC)
November 16 Brookfield, WI Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts
November 18 La Crosse, WI Viterbo University Theatre
November 19 Wausau, WI The Grand Theater
November 20 Toledo, OH The Stranahan Theater
November 21 Park Ridge, IL Pickwick Theatre
November 22 Iowa City, IA The Englert Theatre
November 23 Ames, IA Stephens Auditorium, ISU
November 24 - 25 St. Joseph, MN Petters Auditorium
of the College of St. Benedict
November 26 Madison, WI The Capitol Theater
November 28 Duluth, MN DECC Auditorium
November 29 Appleton, WI Fox Cities Performing Arts Center
November 30 Eau Claire, WI Eau Claire Regional Arts Center
December 1 Des Moines, IA Hoyt Sherman Place
December 2 Cedar Falls, IA Gallagher-Bluedorn, UNI
December 3 Mankato, MN Alltel Center
December 4 Spirit Lake, IA Sami Bedell Performing Arts Center
Spirit Lake High School
December 5 Rochester, MN Mayo Civic Center, Auditorium
December 6 - 13 Minneapolis, MN The Historic State Theatre
December 14 Fargo, ND Gate City Bank Theatre at the Fargodome
December 15 Rapid City, SD Rushmore Plaza Fine Arts Theatre
December 16 Denver, CO Newman Center for the Performing Arts
Gates Concert Hall
December 17 Fort Collins, CO Lincoln Center
December 18 Lincoln, NE Lied Center for Performing Arts - UNL
December 19 Bismarck, ND Bismarck Civic Center
December 20 Minot, ND Ann Nicole Nelson Hall
December 21 Grand Forks, ND Chester Fritz Auditorium, UND
December 22 - 23 Sioux Falls, SD Washington Pavilion of Arts & Science
Husby Performing Arts Center
November 14 - 15 Mason City, IA North Iowa Community Auditorium (NIACC)
November 16 Brookfield, WI Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts
November 18 La Crosse, WI Viterbo University Theatre
November 19 Wausau, WI The Grand Theater
November 20 Toledo, OH The Stranahan Theater
November 21 Park Ridge, IL Pickwick Theatre
November 22 Iowa City, IA The Englert Theatre
November 23 Ames, IA Stephens Auditorium, ISU
November 24 - 25 St. Joseph, MN Petters Auditorium
of the College of St. Benedict
November 26 Madison, WI The Capitol Theater
November 28 Duluth, MN DECC Auditorium
November 29 Appleton, WI Fox Cities Performing Arts Center
November 30 Eau Claire, WI Eau Claire Regional Arts Center
December 1 Des Moines, IA Hoyt Sherman Place
December 2 Cedar Falls, IA Gallagher-Bluedorn, UNI
December 3 Mankato, MN Alltel Center
December 4 Spirit Lake, IA Sami Bedell Performing Arts Center
Spirit Lake High School
December 5 Rochester, MN Mayo Civic Center, Auditorium
December 6 - 13 Minneapolis, MN The Historic State Theatre
December 14 Fargo, ND Gate City Bank Theatre at the Fargodome
December 15 Rapid City, SD Rushmore Plaza Fine Arts Theatre
December 16 Denver, CO Newman Center for the Performing Arts
Gates Concert Hall
December 17 Fort Collins, CO Lincoln Center
December 18 Lincoln, NE Lied Center for Performing Arts - UNL
December 19 Bismarck, ND Bismarck Civic Center
December 20 Minot, ND Ann Nicole Nelson Hall
December 21 Grand Forks, ND Chester Fritz Auditorium, UND
December 22 - 23 Sioux Falls, SD Washington Pavilion of Arts & Science
Husby Performing Arts Center
Monday, November 17, 2008
Tuesday, November 18 -- North Dakota Legislative Budget Section Meeting
NORTH DAKOTA LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
Tentative Agenda
BUDGET SECTION
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Senate Chamber, State Capitol
Bismarck, North Dakota
11:00 a.m. Call to order
Roll call
11:05 a.m. Presentation by representatives of the Office of Management and Budget regarding:
• Status of the general fund
• Report on any tobacco settlement proceeds
• Irregularities in the fiscal practices of the state pursuant to North Dakota Century
Code (NDCC) Section 54-14-03.1
• Executive budget revenue forecast for the 2009-11 biennium; one-time revenues,
including beginning balance; deficiency budget requests; and proposed statutory
changes affecting revenues
• Plans for the legislative revised revenue forecast on February 9, 2009
• Review of the appropriation bill format
11:50 a.m. Committee consideration of state agency requests, pursuant to NDCC Chapter 54-16,
that have been authorized by the Emergency Commission and require consideration by
the Budget Section
12:00 noon Luncheon recess
1:00 p.m. Presentation by a representative of Economy.com regarding:
• Economic assumptions included in the executive budget revenue forecast for the
2009-11 biennium
• North Dakota economic outlook, including oil prices and agriculture commodity prices
• Impact of the state's oil industry on state revenues
2:00 p.m. Presentation by representatives of the Office of Management and Budget on the
2009-11 executive budget recommendations for:
• State employee compensation and benefits
• One-time budget investments
• Information technology projects
• Capital projects
• Use of bonding for capital projects and the impact of the limit on general fund lease
payments
• Elementary, secondary, and vocational education
• Higher education institutions and the North Dakota University System office
• State Department of Health
• Department of Human Services, including the Developmental Center and the State
Hospital
2
• Public safety agencies, including the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
and the Highway Patrol
• Agricultural and economic development agencies, including the North Dakota State
University Extension Service and the Agricultural Experiment Station
• Natural resource agencies, including the State Water Commission and the Game
and Fish Department
• Department of Transportation and other state agencies and institutions
3:30 p.m. Presentation by a representative of the Office of Management and Budget on specified
commodities and services exempted from the procurement requirements of NDCC
Chapter 54-44.4
3:40 p.m. Presentation by a representative of the Department of Human Services regarding the
status of the Medicaid management information system replacement project pursuant to
Section 3 of 2007 Senate Bill No. 2024
3:50 p.m. Presentation by a representative of the Veterans Home on the status of the Veterans
Home construction project pursuant to Section 4 of 2007 Senate Bill No. 2418
4:00 p.m. Presentation by a representative of the Industrial Commission regarding revenues and
expenditures of the abandoned oil and gas well plugging and site reclamation fund; the
geophysical, geothermal, subsurface minerals, and coal exploration fund; and the
geologic data preservation fund to date for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007, and
ending June 30, 2009, pursuant to Section 7 of 2007 House Bill No. 1060
4:10 p.m. Presentation by a representative of the Game and Fish Department regarding a report
on the recruitment and retention of hunters in North Dakota pursuant to Section 7 of
2007 Senate Bill No. 2017
4:20 p.m. Committee discussion and staff directives
4:30 p.m. Adjourn
Committee Members
Committee membership will be announced during the organizational session, December 1-3, 2008
Tentative Agenda
BUDGET SECTION
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Senate Chamber, State Capitol
Bismarck, North Dakota
11:00 a.m. Call to order
Roll call
11:05 a.m. Presentation by representatives of the Office of Management and Budget regarding:
• Status of the general fund
• Report on any tobacco settlement proceeds
• Irregularities in the fiscal practices of the state pursuant to North Dakota Century
Code (NDCC) Section 54-14-03.1
• Executive budget revenue forecast for the 2009-11 biennium; one-time revenues,
including beginning balance; deficiency budget requests; and proposed statutory
changes affecting revenues
• Plans for the legislative revised revenue forecast on February 9, 2009
• Review of the appropriation bill format
11:50 a.m. Committee consideration of state agency requests, pursuant to NDCC Chapter 54-16,
that have been authorized by the Emergency Commission and require consideration by
the Budget Section
12:00 noon Luncheon recess
1:00 p.m. Presentation by a representative of Economy.com regarding:
• Economic assumptions included in the executive budget revenue forecast for the
2009-11 biennium
• North Dakota economic outlook, including oil prices and agriculture commodity prices
• Impact of the state's oil industry on state revenues
2:00 p.m. Presentation by representatives of the Office of Management and Budget on the
2009-11 executive budget recommendations for:
• State employee compensation and benefits
• One-time budget investments
• Information technology projects
• Capital projects
• Use of bonding for capital projects and the impact of the limit on general fund lease
payments
• Elementary, secondary, and vocational education
• Higher education institutions and the North Dakota University System office
• State Department of Health
• Department of Human Services, including the Developmental Center and the State
Hospital
2
• Public safety agencies, including the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
and the Highway Patrol
• Agricultural and economic development agencies, including the North Dakota State
University Extension Service and the Agricultural Experiment Station
• Natural resource agencies, including the State Water Commission and the Game
and Fish Department
• Department of Transportation and other state agencies and institutions
3:30 p.m. Presentation by a representative of the Office of Management and Budget on specified
commodities and services exempted from the procurement requirements of NDCC
Chapter 54-44.4
3:40 p.m. Presentation by a representative of the Department of Human Services regarding the
status of the Medicaid management information system replacement project pursuant to
Section 3 of 2007 Senate Bill No. 2024
3:50 p.m. Presentation by a representative of the Veterans Home on the status of the Veterans
Home construction project pursuant to Section 4 of 2007 Senate Bill No. 2418
4:00 p.m. Presentation by a representative of the Industrial Commission regarding revenues and
expenditures of the abandoned oil and gas well plugging and site reclamation fund; the
geophysical, geothermal, subsurface minerals, and coal exploration fund; and the
geologic data preservation fund to date for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007, and
ending June 30, 2009, pursuant to Section 7 of 2007 House Bill No. 1060
4:10 p.m. Presentation by a representative of the Game and Fish Department regarding a report
on the recruitment and retention of hunters in North Dakota pursuant to Section 7 of
2007 Senate Bill No. 2017
4:20 p.m. Committee discussion and staff directives
4:30 p.m. Adjourn
Committee Members
Committee membership will be announced during the organizational session, December 1-3, 2008
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