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Long-Range Plan for Public Education Steering Committee to meet Sept. 12

Sept. 11, 2017

AUSTIN – The 18-member Long-Range Plan for Public Education Steering Committee will hold its first official meeting at 9 a.m. Tuesday in room 1-104 of the William B. Travis Building at 1701 N. Congress Ave.

 During this kick-off meeting, the committee will discuss the purpose and scope of the new long-range plan and will review strategic plans adopted by other state education boards and state agencies.  

State Demographer Lloyd Potter will discuss demographic changes expected in Texas by the year 2030.

The committee is expected to work through May 2018 to prepare recommendations for the state board.

The steering committee is made up of: 

Five board members:

  • SBOE Chair Donna Bahorich of Houston
  • Barbara Cargill of Conroe
  • Tom Maynard of Florence
  • Georgina C. Pérez of El Paso
  • Marty Rowley of Amarillo

Three appointees from state agencies:

  • Rebecca Shah, strategy delivery specialist at the Texas Education Agency
  • David Gardner, deputy commissioner of academic planning and policy at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
  • Reagan Miller, deputy director of workforce solutions at the Texas Workforce Commission

10 stakeholder representatives

  • Adeeb Barqawi, a former high school physics teacher who runs an organization that empowers school districts to nurture the whole child by equipping them with a data driven infrastructure that systematizes impactful connections to resources for all students
  • Rikki Bonet, a veteran pre-kindergarten teacher in the Dallas Independent School District who has first-hand experience with dyslexia both as an individual and as a parent.
  • Avery Bullock, a Weatherford High School senior in Weatherford ISD and an active community volunteer and school leader who works with groups such as the Brazos River Regional Day School Program for the Deaf and the Salvation Army
  • · Sheri Doss, the president-elect of the Texas PTA who is from North East ISD in San Antonio
  • · Stacey Edmonson, dean of the College of Education at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville who has a wide-range of research and practical experience in the areas of special education and administration
  • Lanet Greenhaw, vice president of education and workforce at the Dallas Regional Chamber
  • Carol Harle, a current school board member in San Antonio’s Northside ISD and a former teacher and administrator with experience at several grade levels and in the Gifted and Talented Program
  • George Kazanas, superintendent of Midway ISD in the Waco area, a former Region 12 Superintendent of the Year, former Region 8 UIL Music Education Superintendent Representative and former president of the Rio Brazos Education Cooperative Management Board, which provides special education services as well as other services to small districts.
  • Gonzalo Salazar, superintendent of Los Fresnos Consolidated ISD with extensive experience working with bilingual education and at-risk students
  • Ruth Lopez Turley, director of the Houston Education Research Consortium and a professor of sociology at Rice University
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