MINUTES 
                                           
           SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION REFORM AND PUBLIC SCHOOL  
                                      FINANCE 
                             Monday, February 27, 2006 
                                     9:00 a.m. 
                           Capitol Extension, Room E1.036 
                                           
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Select Committee on  
         Education Reform and Public School Finance was held on Monday,  
         February 27, 2006, in the Capitol Extension, Room E1.036, at  
         Austin, Texas. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Florence Shapiro                Senator Kip Averitt 
         Senator Kim Brimer                      Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr. 
         Senator Robert Duncan                   Senator Steve Ogden 
         Senator Juan Hinojosa                   Senator Tommy Williams 
         Senator Royce West 
          
         MEMBERS PRESENT (Not on the Committee): 
         Senator Kel Seliger 
         Senator John Whitmire 
                                           
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         The chair called the meeting to order at 9:15 a.m.  The  
         following business was transacted:   
          
         Senator Shapiro made opening remarks to the Committee. 
          
         Witnesses testifying and registering on the Effects of Teacher  
         Quality Overview are shown on the attached list.   
          
         There being a quorum at 10:10 a.m., the clerk called the roll. 
          
         Senator West moved adoption of the minutes from the previous  
         hearing held on February 6, 2006; without objection, it was so  
         ordered.   
          
         Witnesses testifying and registering on Panel 1 are shown on the  
         attached list.   
          
         Witnesses testifying and registering on Panel 2 are shown on the  
         attached list. 
          
         Witnesses testifying and registering on Panel 3 are shown on the  
         attached list. 
  
         Witnesses (public testimony) testifying and registering are  
         shown on the attached list. 
          
         The chair moved that invited and public testimony be closed;  
         without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
         There being no further business, at 1:20 p.m. Senator Shapiro  
         moved that the Committee stand recessed subject to the call of  
         the chair.  Without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
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         Senator Florence Shapiro, Chair 
          
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         Tara Korstad, Clerk