Senate

Senate
Record of Committee Proceedings

Committee on Education

Senate Bill 384

Relating to: special education programs for children with disabilities and granting rule-making authority.

By the Committee on Education, by request of the Department of Public Instruction.

December 17, 1997 Referred to committee on Education.

January 7, 1998 PUBLIC HEARING HELD

Present: (7) Senators C. Potter, Jauch, Shibilski, Grobschmidt, Darling, Huelsman and Roessler.

Absent: (0) None.

Appearances for

· Juanita Pawlisch for DPI

· Paul Halverson for DPI

· Vivian Weber-Pagel for Exceptional Education Advisory Council

· Nissan Bar-Lev of Chilton for CESA 7

· Jan Serak of Greendale

· Laurine Lusk of Verona for Quality Education Coalition

· Jeff Spitzer-Resnick for Wisconsin Coalition for Advocacy

· Gerald Weso for Great lakes Inter Tribal Council

· Philip Knobel for Walworth County Handicapped Chirdren's Executive Board

· JoAnn Stormer for Wisconsin Family Ties

· Sister Patrice Colletti of West Allis for Parent Education Project of Wisconsin

· Sue Lohmeier of Woodville

· Roger Berg for Wisconsin School Psychologist Association

· Sue Endress of Milwaukee

· Ed Hawkinson of Portage for CESA 5

· Ruth Smasal Adix of Fall Creek

· Jerry Bohren for Stevens Point School District

· Sally Carlson of Boyceville

· Senn Brown for Wisconsin Association of School Boards

· Pat Yahle for Milwaukee Public Schools

· Mickey Beil for Milwaukee Public Schools

· Debbie Devine of Milwaukee for Autism Society of SE Wisconsin

· Lynda Palecek of Greendale for Wisconsin School Psychologists Association

· Lori Dominiczak for Wisconsin Physical Therapy Association

· Jane Shibilski of Wausau for Wisconsin PTA

· Chuck Hastert of Green Bay for Wisconsin Council of Administrators of Special Services

· Teri Black for Wisconsin Occupational Therapy Association

· Steven LaValle for School Administrators Alliance

· Carolyn Jackson of Milwaukee for MPS Task Force on Exceptional Education and Supportive Services

· Barbara Leadholm of Lake Mills for Middleton-Cross Plains School District

· Donna Rosinski for Autism Society of Madison

Appearances against

· None.

Appearances for Information Only

· Katie Schultz Stout for WEAC

· Carol Weidel for WFT

Registrations for

· Cynthia Streber of Lodi

· Judith Fell for Wisconsin Council on Developmental Disabilities

· Jackie Becker of Madison

· Gregory Dietz of Chippewa Falls for CESA 10

· Georgette Rodriquez of Milwaukee

· Pat Patterson of Milwaukee for MPS Exceptional Education Task Force

· Frances Bicknell of Madison for Autism Society of Wisconsin

· Judith Bradshaw-Powse of Madison

· Gwenith Jones of Madison

· Martha DeYoung of Friesland for CESA 5

· Bob Andersen for Wisconsin Council on Children and Families

· Jeanne Erickson of Fort Atkinson

· Brenda Miller of DeForest