WITNESS LIST
Public Education Committee
April 8, 2003-2:00P
HB 16
For: Golson, Kathy (Texas Association of School Boards)
Gustafson, Lindsay (Texas Classroom Teachers Assoc)
Harris, Dwight (Texas Federation of Teachers)
Soehnge, Karen (Texas Association of School
Administrators)
Wall, Marjorie (Texas State Teachers Association)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
Against: Pam, Uhr (Self and ACLU of Texas)
On: Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
HB 107
For: Gustafson, Lindsay (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
Kostantenalo, Linda (Self)
McIntire, Thomas (Texas Licensed Child Care Association)
Pewitt, Bill (Texas Licensed Child Care Association)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
Against: Jackson, Diane (Spring Branch ISD)
Soehnge, Karen (Texas Association of School
Administrators)
Winkler, Sarah (Texas Association of School Boards &
Alief ISD)
HB 214
For: Lambert, Tim (Texas Home School Coalition)
Against: Black, Mike (Self and TAPAAC & Family)
Brownson, Amanda (Texas School Alliance)
Raab, Ted Melina (Texas Federation of Teachers)
Tipton, Sam (Texas Girls Coaches Association)
Wall, Marjorie (Texas State Teachers Association)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
On: Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Smoot, Samantha (Texas Freedom Network)
HB 387
For: Wall, Marjorie (Texas State Teachers Association)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
Wilkerson, Glenn (The Children's Center for Self-Esteem)
HB 411
For: Bacon, Tim (TSTA)
Borden, Sandi (Texas Elementary Principals & Supervisors
Association)
Douglass, Cathy (Texas Association of School Boards)
Melina Raab, Ted (Texas Federation of Teachers)
Stone, Jeri (Texas Classroom Teachers Association)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
On: Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Smisko, Ann (Texas Education Agency)
HB 442
For: Bacon, Tim (Texas State Teachers Association)
Gustafson, Lindsay (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
On: Golson, Kathy (Texas Association of School Boards &
Texas Association of School Administrators)
Jacobs, Billy (TEA)
HB 447
For: Lambert, Kay (Advocacy, Inc.)
Price, Dennis (Texas Council of Administrators of
Special Education)
Statman, Rona (The ARC of Texas)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
On: Maxwell, Susan (Texas Council for Developmental
Disabilities)
HB 495
For: Kostelecky, Carolyn (ACT, Inc.)
Against: Bacon, Tim (TSTA)
Melina Raab, Ted (Texas Federation of Teachers)
Sanchez, Joe (Mexican American Legal Defense and
Educational Fund)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
HB 521
For: Melina Raab, Ted (Texas Federation of Teachers)
Scheberle, Drew (Texas Business & Education Coalition)
Stone, Jeri (Texas Classroom Teachers Association)
Against: Sanchez, Joe (Mexican American Legal Defense and
Educational Fund)
HB 567
For: Bacon, Tim (TSTA)
Gustafson, Lindsay (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
On: Harris, Dwight (Texas Federation of Teachers)
Jacobs, Billy (TEA)
HB 817
For: Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
On: Smisko, Ann (Texas Education Agency)
HB 818
For: Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
HB 1406
For: Breeding, John (Self and Texans for Safe Education)
Dolan, Moira (Self)
Galloway, Charles (Self and Graham B Galloway)
Gerstenschlager, MerryLynn (Self and Texas Eagle Forum)
McIntosh, Glenn (Suicide and Violence Education Resource
Services)
Prough, Andrew (Citizens Commission on Human Rights)
Uhr, Pam (Self and ACLU of Texas)
Against: Gustafson, Lindsay (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
Melina Raab, Ted (Texas Federation of Teachers)
On: Price, Dennis (TCASE & Amarillo ISD)
Rewoldt, Christian (Self)
Tabone, Stephanie (Texas Nurses Association)
HB 1440
For: Bacon, Tim (TSTA)
Borden, Sandi (Texas Elementary Principals & Supervisors
Association)
Douglass, Cathy (Texas Association of School Boards)
Melina Raab, Ted (Texas Federation of Teachers)
Stone, Jeri (Texas Classroom Teachers Association)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
HB 1441
For: Douglass, Cathy (Texas Association of School Boards)
Salyards, Cheryl (Texas Council for Administrators in
Special Education)
Statman, Rona (The ARC of Texas)
On: Maxwell, Susan (Texas Council for Developmental
Disabilities)
HB 1518
For: Gustafson, Lindsay (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
On: Douglass, Cathy (Texas Assoc. of School Boards)
Price, Gary (Comptroller of Public Accounts)
Wisnoski, Joe (Texas Education Agency)
HB 2101
Against: Bacon, Tim (TSTA)
Borden, Sandi (Texas Elementary Principals & Supervisors
Association)
Gustafson, Lindsay (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
Melina Raab, Ted (Texas Federation of Teachers)
Smoot, Samantha (Texas Freedom Network)
Soehnge, Karen (Texas Association of School
Administrators & Texas Association of School
Boards)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
HB 2102
For: Gustafson, Lindsay (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
Against: Douglass, Cathy (Texas Association of School Boards)
Eckhart, Harley (Texas Elementary Principals &
Supervisors Association)
Soehnge, Karen (Texas Association of School
Administrators)
On: Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
HB 2217
Against: Bacon, Tim (TSTA)
Gustafson, Lindsay (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
Melina Raab, Ted (Texas Federation of Teachers)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
On: Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
HB 2220
For: Scheberle, Drew (Texas Business and Education Coalition)
Stone, Jeri (Texas Classroom Teachers Association)
On: Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Bacon, Tim (TSTA)
Floyd, Robert (Texas Music Educators Association)
Melina Raab, Ted (Texas Federation of Teachers)
HB 2520
For: Bacon, Tim (TSTA)
On: Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Harris, Dwight (Texas Federation of Teachers)
Jacobs, Billy (TEA)
HB 2804
For: Collins, Robby (Mike Moses & Dallas ISD)
Gustafson, Lindsay (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
Wall, Marjorie (TSTA)
HB 2825
For: Borden, Sandi (Texas Elementary Principals & Supervisors
Association)
Douglass, Cathy (Texas Association of School Boards)
Against: Gustafson, Lindsay (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
Melina Raab, Ted (Texas Federation of Teachers)
Wall, Marjorie (Texas State Teachers Association)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
On: Lambert, Kay (Advocacy, Inc.)
HB 2964
For: Nunez, Johnny (Self)
Olson, John (Self and City of Stafford)
Scarcella, Leonard (City Council - City of Stafford)
On: Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)