WITNESS LIST
Public Education Committee
March 19, 2013 - 2:00 PM or upon final adjourn./recess
For:
Fazio, Heather (Self; Texans for Accountable Government)
Gerloff, Alfred (Self)
Hernandez, Andrea (Self)
Hernandez, Steven (Self)
King, Read (Self)
King, Read (Self)
King, Read (Self)
Simpson, Matt (ACLU of Texas)
Against:
Reilly, Wendy (TechAmerica)
Wade, Michael (Self; Wade Garcia &Associates)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Adams, Cathie (Self; Texas Eagle Forum)
Hedtke, Amy (Self)
Howe, Chris (Self)
Perez, Michael (Self)
Pfeiffer, Connor (Self; High School Republicans of Texas)
Powell, Judy (Parent Guidance Center)
Spiller, Lee (Self)
Against:
Giles, Deborah (Texas Technology Consortium)
Kent, Chip (Self)
Marshall, Donald (Self; HHM Consulting)
Shannon, Fred (Radiant RFID)
Tseng, Ringo (Wade Garcia)
Wurzel, Geoff (TechNet)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
For:
Craft, John (The Texas Association of School Administrators and Kileen Independent School
District)
Grace, Jim (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Arnold, Ellen (Texas PTA)
Bosse, Portia (Texas State Teachers Association)
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For:
Chatelle, Melody (United Ways of Texas)
Eckhart, Harley (Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association)
Harris, Dwight (Texas aft)
King, Read (Self)
King, Read (Self)
Rogers, Don (Texas Rural Education Association)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Dawn-Fisher, Lisa (Texas Education Agency)
For:
McRoberts, Mary (Texas Alliance of Boys and Girls Club)
Sabo, Jason (Children at Risk)
Wofford, Molly (Self; Texas Partnership for Out of School Time)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Altobelli, Joan (Self; Texas Afterschool Association)
Chatelle, Melody (United Ways of Texas)
Cormie, Duncan (Self; Texas Network of Youth Services)
Exter, Monty (The Association of Texas Profession Educators)
Finck, James (YMCA)
Mace, Stephanie (United Way of Metropolitan Dallas)
Vannoy, Tamara (Texas Afterschool Association)
Von Haefen, Katherine (Self; United Way of Greater Houston)
Williams, Mark (Self; KDK-Harman Foundation)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Dawn-Fisher, Lisa (Texas Education Agency)
For:
Ewing, Sabra (Self; Alliance of and for Visually Impaired Texans)
Fayard, Belinda (Self; Alliance of and for visually impaired texans)
Flores, Richie (Self; National Federational of the Blind)
Freeborn, Elisabeth (Self; Texas parents of blind children)
Litzinger, Linda (Self)
McKay, Kristen (Self; Alliance of and for visually impaired Texans)
Mckay, Meghan (Self)
Miller, Jeff (Disability Rights Texas)
Penn, Faith (Self; National Federation of the Blind)
Whitty, Karen (Self)
Wood, Marjie (Self; Tx assoc. of the visually impaired)
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On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Miller, Cyral (Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Bearden, Chase (Coalition of Texans with Disabilities)
Bellah, Edgenie (Self; Alliace of and for Visually Impaired Texans)
Bosse, Portia (Texas State Teachers Association)
Dimitry, Lauren (Texans Care for Children)
Fayard, Megan (Self)
Fayard, Morgan (Self)
Lawless, Dwaines (Self)
McCraw, Ken (Texas Association of Community Schools (TACS))
Mckay, Maddie (Self)
Miller, Carlena (Self; Alliance of and for visually impaired Texans)
Murrell, Martha (Self; AVIT)
Pogrund, Rona (Self)
Statman, Rona (The arc of texas)
Toelle, Nancy (Self; Aliance of and for visually impaired Texans)
Villanueva, Chandra (Center for Public Policy Priorities)
On:
Fajkus, Mel (Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services)
Lenz, Gene (Texas Education Agency)
For:
Law, Pauline (Self)
Romere, Terri (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Chadwick, Ashley (Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas)
Venable, Peggy (Self; Americans for Prosperity)
Against:
Cox, Diane (Self)
McCraw, Ken (Texas Association of Community Schools (TACS))
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Swanson, Steve (Self)
For:
Akins, Pamela (Self; Texas council on cardiovascular disease and stroke)
Nader, Matt (Self; American Heart Association)
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For:
Naylor, Rachel (American Heart Association)
Pack, Jason (Esd 11 and travis county firefighter assoc.)
Pringle, Ellen (American heart associatiom)
Against:
Hedtke, Amy (Self; Red Oak Home Schoolers of Texas)
King, Read (Self)
Shields, Julie (Texas association of school boards)
Snodgrass, Ben (Self; Texas home school coalition)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Blanke, Laura (Texas Pediatric Society)
Rathbone, Marissa (Self; ACTIVE Life)
Stewart, Clayton (Texas Society of Anesthesiologists)
Against:
Cox, Diane (Texas association of school boards)
Hastings, Paul (Self)
Howe, Chris (Self)
Huber, David (Self)
McCreary, Casey (Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA))
Stroud, Don (Self)
Whitsett, Maria (Texas School Alliance)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Martinez, Monica (Texas Education Agency)
Against:
Dimitry, Lauren (Texans Care for Children)
Jovanovic, Christine (Texas PTA)
Pont, Stephen (Texas Pediatric Society)
Rathbone, Marissa (Self; ACTIVE Life)
Rusnak, Michele (Self)
Smith, Michelle (Self; Partnership for a Healthy Texas and Texas Action for Healthy Kids)
On:
Britton, Maureen (Children,s Optimal Health)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Eckhart, Harley (Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association)
Hutchins-Robertson, Tedrah (Equity Center)
McCraw, Ken (Texas Association of Community Schools (TACS))
McCreary, Casey (Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA))
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For:
Rogers, Don (Texas Rural Education Association)
Shields, Julie (Texas association of school boards)
Against:
Alexander, Troy (Texas Medical Association)
Mace, Stephanie (United Way of Metropolitan Dallas)
Naylor, Rachel (Self; TAHPERD)
Romo, Joel (American Heart Association)
Stine, Mark (BikeTexas)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Martinez, Monica (Texas Education Agency)
For:
Figueroa, Luis (MALDEF MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND
EDUCATIONAL FUND)
Romero, Jesse (Self; Texas Association for Bilingual Education)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Adame, Alicia (Self)
Anaya, Marianna (Self)
Bosse, Portia (Texas State Teachers Association)
Exter, Monty (The Association of Texas Profession Educators)
Hayes, Patricia V (Stand for Children)
Salinas, Nelson (Texas Association of Business)
Villanueva, Chandra (Center for Public Policy Priorities)
Against:
McCraw, Ken (Texas Association of Community Schools (TACS))
McCreary, Casey (Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA))
Shields, Julie (Texas association of school boards)
Whitsett, Maria (Texas School Alliance)
Against:
Motheral, Mike (Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) and Texas Association
of Community Schools (TACS))
On:
Stevens, David (UIL)
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Registering, but not testifying:
Against:
Floyd, Robert (Texas Music Educators Association)
Rogers, Don (Texas Rural Education Association)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
For:
Mata, Jill (Bexar County District Attorneys Office)
Mitchell, Seth (Bexar County Judge Nelson W. Wolff)
Pollock, Gary (Self; San Antonio ISD)
Quintanilla, Gabriel (San Antonio Municipal Court)
Sullivan, Vicky (Northside Independent School District (San Antonio))
On:
Vitris, Michael (Texas Appleseed)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Brown, Kevin (Alamo Heights ISD)
Clark, Catherine (Texas Association of School Boards)
Coyle, Jeff (On behalf of San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro)
Crawford, Mercadi (Texas criminal justice coalition)
McCreary, Casey (Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA))
Rogers, Don (Texas Rural Education Association)
Shields, Julie (Texas association of school boards)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Haverlah, Kirsha (Justice of the Peace and Constables Association)
Swanson, Steve (Self)
For:
Hepworth, Roger (Self)
Young, Royce (Coleman isd)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
McCraw, Ken (Texas Association of Community Schools (TACS))
Rogers, Don (Texas Rural Education Association)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Dawn-Fisher, Lisa (Texas Education Agency)
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