Senate Finance/Assembly Ways and Means Joint
Subcommittee on Human Resource K-12
Tuesday, February 16, 1999, 8:00 am
NOTES – not verbatim

School-to-Careers, Keith Rheault, NDE and Mendy Elliott, Wells Fargo Bank

Keith Rheault - Overview included STC has both state and federal funding. Federal funding sunsets in 2001. STC Council oversees with 51% business majority. Great business support. Staff of 3 that equal 2FTE. Salaries eliminated in 5^th year of federal budget. No state dollars reserved for state administration. All state monies go to districts, colleges and universities.

Committee Members: Have instate and out of state expenses been reduced? Rheault, yes, considerably lower.

Perception that STC is occupational, technical training. What about academic connections? Rheault, benchmark report shows evaluation results tied to academic results.

Mendy Elliott - STC is assisting in improving student achievement by providing professional development such as externship experiences for teachers, programs to reduce dropouts and efforts are made to encourage K-12 students to pursue higher education and further training.

Information included an analysis of state expenditure by grantees:

The state dollars are an investment in the future.

A. Evans - Short of the $2m per year, what would it take to keep the program intact and moving? Rheault, the 45% or $900,000 for operating.

Ms. Botts - Can a summary of state report be submitted? Rheault, yes

S. Raggio - There are over 4000 businesses listed as participating. Can they chip in to help with cost of program? Elliott, the businesses are contributing in many ways, for example, Wells Fargo Foundation has contributed $20,000 to the CCSN Learn and Earn program.

S. Rawson - These STC monies were considered temporary and to design a sustainable program. The system is not to reduce the academic part of the program.

Later at 11:45 am (notes from Gloria Dopf, NDE, who was present)
Janine Hansen, Eagle Forum – Opposed to STW
Kris Jensen, Nevada Concerned Citizens – Opposed to STW because the goal is meeting industry needs rather than academic needs. STW has students meeting SCANS competencies rather than core academic standards.

A. Bob Coffin and A. Goldwater – Our constituents are very similar – what’s important to them is what workers do on the job and how the job gets done effectively.

STC Legislative Action Team - Action Plan

These notes are intended as a summary and are not the exact minutes. The exact testimony is available through the legislative counsel bureau.