Assembly

Assembly
Record of Committee Proceedings

Committee on Education

Assembly Bill 674

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

By the Committee on Education, by request of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction John Benson.

December 23, 1997 Referred to committee on Education.

January 7, 1998 PUBLIC HEARING HELD

Present: (13) Representatives Olsen, Nass, Brandemuehl, Duff, Ainsworth, Hahn, Otte, Schneider, R. Young, Reynolds, Ziegelbauer, Dueholm and J. Lehman.

Absent: (1) Representative Ward.

Appearances for

· Juanita Pawlisch --DPI

· Paul Halverson -- DPI

· Vivian Weber -- Pagel for Exceptional Education Advisory Council

· Nissan Bar-Lev --CESA 7, Chilton

· Jan Serak --Greendale

· Laurine Lusk -- Quality Education Coalition, Verona

· Jeff Spitzer-Resnick -- WI Coalition for Advocacy

· Gerald Weso-- Great Lakes Inter Tribal Council

· Philip Knobel -- Walworth County Handicapped Children's Executive Board

· JoAnn Stormer -- WI Family Ties

· Sister Patrice Colletti -- Parent Education Project of WI

· Sue Lohmeier -- Woodville

· Roger Berg -- WI School Psychologist Assoc.

· Sue Endress -- Milwaukee

· Ed Hawkinson --CESA 5, Portage

· Ruth Smasal Adix -- Fall Creek

· Jerry Bohren -- Stevens Point School District

· Sally Carlson -- Boyceville

· Senn Brown -- WI Assoc. of School Boards

· Pat Yahle -- Milwaukee Public Schools

· Mickey Beil -- Milwaukee Public Schools

· Debbie Devine -- Autism Society of SE Wisconsin, Milwaukee

· Lynda Palecek-- WI School Psychologist Assoc.

· Lori Dominiczak -- WI Physical Therapy Assoc.

· Jane Shibilski -- WI PTA

· Chuck Hastert-- WI Council of Administrators of Special Services, Green Bay

· Teri Black -- WI Occupational Therapy Assoc.

· Steven LaValle -- School Admninstrators Alliance

· Carolyn Jackson -- MPS Task Force on Exceptional Education and Supportive Services

· Barbara Leadholm -- Middleton-Cross Plains School District

· Donna Rosinski -- Autism Society of Madison

Appearances against

· None.

Appearances for Information Only

· Katie Schultz Stout -- WEAC

· Carol Weidel -- WFT

Registrations for

· Cynthia Streber -- Lodi

· Judith Fell -- WI Council on Developmental Disabilities

· Jackie Becker -- Madison

· Gregory Dietz --CESA 10, Chippewa Falls

· Georgette Rodriquez -- Milwaukee

· Pat Patterson -- MPS Exceptional Education Task Force

· Frances Bicknell -- Autism Society of WI

· Judith Bradshaw-Powse --Madison

· Gwenith Jones-- Madison

· Martha DeYoung --CESA 5, Friesland

· Bob Andersen -- WI Council on Children and Families

· Jeanne Erickson -- Fort Atkinson

· Brenda Miller -- DeForest