WITNESS LIST
Public Education Committee
May 14, 2013 - 2:00 PM or upon final adjourn./recess
For:
Murrell, Martha (Self; Alliance of and for Visually Impaired Texans)
Nguyen, Peter (Self)
On:
Daugherty, William (Texas school for the blind and visually impaired)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Bearden, Chase (Coalition of texans with disabilities)
Exter, Monty (Association of Texas Professional Educators)
Lilly, Janna (TCASE Texas Council of Administrators of Special Education)
Miller, Jeff (Disability Rights Texas)
Salinas, Nelson (Texas Association of Business)
Statman, Rona (The arc of texas)
Willson, Paula (Self)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Lenz, Gene (Texas Education Agency)
For:
Rickey, Richard (Self; Orenda education)
Rockstroh, Bruce (John H Wood, Jr Charter District)
On:
Cloudt, Criss (Texas education agency)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Cox, Darrell (Trinity Charter School)
Exter, Monty (Association of Texas Professional Educators)
Lilly, Janna (TCASE Texas Council of Administrators of Special Education)
McCreary, Casey (Texas Association of School Administrators)
Piar-Thomas, Jacqueline (Trinity Charter School)
Popinski, Bob (Texas School Alliance)
Shields, Julie (Texas Association of School Boards)
Thomas, Amanda (Texas charter schools association)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
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On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Grusendorf, Bill (Self; Texas Assoc Of Ruraal Schools)
On:
Dawn-Fisher, Lisa (Texas Education Agency)
For:
De Sosa, Linda (Self)
Usanga, Andrea (Mental health america of greater houston)
On:
Carlton, Belinda (Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Hansch, Greg (Self; National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Texas)
Harris, Dwight (Texas AFT)
Saxton, Josette (Texans Care for Children)
Switzer, Gyl (Mental health america of texas)
Against:
Culpepper, Lelia (Self)
DeWitt, Lauren (Self; Citizens Commission on Human Rights)
Gerstenschlager, MerryLynn (Self; Texas Eagle Forum)
Peterson, Christy (Self)
Poulin, Anna (Self)
Powell, Judy (Parent Guidance Center)
Spiller, Lee (Citizens Commission on Human Rights)
Watts, Michelle (Self)
Wier, George (Self)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Against:
Casey, Daniel (Self; Texas School Alliance, Fast Growth School Coalition)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Baggett, Donnis (Self; Texas Press Association)
Chadwick, Ashley (Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas)
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For:
Gonzalez, Daniel (Texas association of realtors)
Kennedy, John (Texas Taxpayers and Research Association)
Schneider, Michael (Texas Association of Broadcasters)
Thomas, Chelsey (Texas Association of Realtors)
Against:
Anderson, David D (Fast Growth School Coalition)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Dawn-Fisher, Lisa (Texas Education Agency)
For:
Lilly, Janna (TCASE Texas Council of Administrators of Special Education)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Borreca, Chris (Self; Thompson and horton)
Eckhart, Harley (Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association)
Exter, Monty (Association of Texas Professional Educators)
Gustafson, Lindsay (Texas Classroom Teachers Association)
McCraw, Ken (Tx association of community schools)
McCreary, Casey (Texas Association of School Administrators)
Miller, Jeff (Disability Rights Texas)
Popinski, Bob (Texas School Alliance)
Shields, Julie (Texas Association of School Boards)
Statman, Rona (The arc of texas)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Zyskowski, Gloria (Texas Education Agency)
For:
De Sosa, Linda (Self)
Miller, Jeff (Disability Rights Texas)
Miller, Jeff (Disability Rights Texas)
Saxton, Josette (Texans Care for Children)
Usanga, Andrea (Mental health america of greater houston)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Hansch, Greg (Self; National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Texas)
Switzer, Gyl (Mental health america of texas)
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WITNESS LIST
Against:
Culpepper, Lelia (Self)
DeWitt, Lauren (Self; Citizens Commission on Human Rights)
Gerstenschlager, MerryLynn (Self; Texas Eagle Forum)
Poulin, Anna (Self)
Powell, Judy (Parent Guidance Center)
Watts, Michelle (Self)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
For:
Golsan, James (Texas Public Policy Foundation)
Holm, Anthony (Texans cor education reform)
Against:
Anthony, David (Raise Your Hand Texas)
Beneski, Amy (Texas Association of School Administrators)
Clark, Catherine (Texas Association of School Boards)
Exter, Monty (Association of Texas Professional Educators)
Gustafson, Lindsay (Texas Classroom Teachers Association)
Melina Raab, Ted (Texas American Federation of Teachers)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Salinas, Nelson (Texas Association of Business)
Against:
Bosse, Portia (Texas State Teachers Association)
McCraw, Ken (Tx assoc of community schools)
Popinski, Bob (Texas School Alliance)
Villanueva, Chandra (Center for Public Policy Priorities)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Exter, Monty (Association of Texas Professional Educators)
Harris, Dwight (Texas AFT)
McCreary, Casey (Texas Association of School Administrators)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Zyskowski, Gloria (Texas Education Agency)
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For:
Gustafson, Lindsay (Texas Classroom Teachers Association)
Merritt, Heather (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Borreca, Chris (Self; Thompson and horton llp)
Borreca, Chris (Self; Thompson and horton)
Eckhart, Harley (Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association)
Exter, Monty (Association of Texas Professional Educators)
Harris, Dwight (Texas AFT)
Lilly, Janna (TCASE Texas Council of Administrators of Special Education)
McCreary, Casey (Texas Association of School Administrators)
Miller, Jeff (Disability Rights Texas)
Popinski, Bob (Texas School Alliance)
Shields, Julie (Texas Association of School Boards)
Statman, Rona (The arc of texas)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Zyskowski, Gloria (Texas Education Agency)
For:
Saxton, Josette (Texans Care for Children)
Usanga, Andrea (Mental health america of greater houston)
Against:
Culpepper, Lelia (Self)
DeWitt, Lauren (Self; Citizens Commission oN Human Rights Texas)
Poulin, Anna (Self)
Powell, Judy (Parent guidance center)
Spiller, Lee (Citizens Commission on Human Rights)
Wood, Juli (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Allen, Roy (Self)
Chapple, Jamaica (Self)
Davis, Melissa (National Association of Social Workers - Texas Chapter)
Exter, Monty (Association of Texas Professional Educators)
Friese, Jan (Texas counseling assoc)
Hall, Erin (Self)
Hansch, Greg (Self; National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Texas)
Harris, Dwight (Texas AFT)
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For:
Hartman, Marilyn (Self; NAMI Austin National Alliance on Mental Illness, Austin affliate)
Hayes, Patricia V (Stand for Children Texas)
Hayes, Patricia V (Stand for Children Texas)
Holmberg-abel, Darla (Self)
Ligon, Katharine (Center for Public Policy Priorities)
Lilly, Janna (TCASE Texas Council of Administrators of Special Education)
Love-white, Pamela (Self)
Manning, LaShondra (Self)
Martinez, Diana (Self; TexProtects, The Texas Association for the Protection of Children)
Martinez, Sandra (Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas)
Matthews, Cyndi (Self)
Miller, Jeff (Disability Rights Texas)
Ndomahina, Reuben (Self)
Nicholsom, Courtney (Self)
Noble, Shannon (Texas Counseling Association)
Ortiz, Laura (Self)
Shuman, Dawn (Self)
Statman, Rona (The arc of texas)
Switzer, Gyl (Mental health america of texas)
Tanguma, Vanessa (Self)
Weaver, Cathy (Self)
Wiley, Kenitres (Self)
Against:
Fischer, Candace (Self)
Fischer, Jeff (Self)
Gerstenschlager, MerryLynn (Self; Texas Eagle Forum)
Norman, Catherine (Self)
Peterson, Christy (Self)
Scouras, Deborah (Self)
Sullivan, Michael (Self)
Watts, Michelle (Self)
For:
West, Sandra (Self; Science Teachers Association of Tx)
On:
Aquino-Garza, Priscilla (Educate Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Hayes, Patricia V (Stand for Children Texas)
Maddox, Ben (Kids First)
Moses, Mike (Self)
Nelson, Jim (Self)
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For:
Yancy, Justin (Texas Business Leadership Council)
Against:
Eckhart, Harley (Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Cardenas, Melva V (Texas Association of School Personnel Administrators)
For:
Clements, Irene (Self; Texas Foster Family Association)
Martinez, Diana (Self; TexProtects, The Texas Association for the Protection of Children)
On:
Roper, Tiffany (Permanent Judicial Commission for Children, Youth, and Families)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Arnold, Ellen (Texas PTA)
Davis, Melissa (National Association of Social Workers - Texas Chapter)
McCraw, Ken (Tx association of community schools)
McCreary, Casey (Texas Association of School Administrators)
Saxton, Josette (Texans Care for Children)
Shields, Julie (Texas Association of School Boards)
Sparks, Andrea (Texas CASA)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Dawn-Fisher, Lisa (Texas Education Agency)
Kromrei, Elizabeth "Liz" (Department of Family and Protective Services)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Cardenas, Melva V (Texas Association of School Personnel Administrators)
Exter, Monty (Association of Texas Professional Educators)
Gustafson, Lindsay (Texas Classroom Teachers Association)
Maddox, Ben (Kids First)
Moses, Mike (Self)
Nelson, Jim (Self)
West, Sandra (Self; Science Teachers of Tx)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Casey, Daniel (Self; Texas School Alliance, Fast Growth School Coalition, Texas Association
of School Boards)
Freeman, Ray (Equity center)
Rome, Christy (Texas School Coalition)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
McCraw, Ken (Tx association of community schools)
McCreary, Casey (Texas Association of School Administrators)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Dawn-Fisher, Lisa (Texas Education Agency)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Canales, Ramiro (Texas Association of School Administrators)
Exter, Monty (Association of Texas Professional Educators)
Moses, Mike (Self)
Nelson, Jim (Self; Avid)
Reilly, Wendy (TechAmerica)
Wurzel, Geoff (TechNet)
On:
Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
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