March 11, 2009 - House K-12 Education Policy Committee
 Testimony for H.F. 501 – GRAD Test Requirement, Jim Bartholomew, Minnesota Business Partnership (Letter referenced in the testimony).
Testimony by Ralph D. Maves, M.S. Ed.S., Minnesota School Psychologists’ Association.
March 4,2009 - Senate Education Committee
 Statewide Assessments - Testimony on the history, cost, and proposed changes to the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments presented by the Minnesota Department of Education.
February 17, 2009 - House K-12 Education Finance Committee
February 2009 - MINNESOTA'S FUTURE: World-class Schools, World-class Jobs - As Minnesota employers of all sizes face global competition and pursue global opportunities, they have a vested interest in the answers to these questions: How does Minnesota's education system compare with the best in the world? What can we learn from them to deliver a better education to the students of Minnesota? Minnesota Business Partnership and the Itasca Project (Listen to the hearing).
February 10, 2009 - House K-12 Education Finance Committee
Testimony - From the front line that the system of education financing is broken and that to do anything short of dramatic over the next few years will be this state’s undoing, Reine Shiffman, West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan.
HF 2 - You can’t invest in the future without paying the price for education, Parents United for Public Schools.
February 4, 2009 - House K-12 Education Policy Committee
QComp Testimony - The political context that presents public education as desperately in need of major changes with the only solution being to “fix the teacher” is misguided, Andy Uhler, President, Education Richfield.
January 15, 2009 - House K-12 Education Finance Division
The Lost Decade: Key Findings - State spending on E-12 education is down since 2003; Schools are relying more on property taxes; Minnesota education spending per $1,000 of personal income falls to 9.5% below the national average in FY 2006, Minnesota Budget Project.
 Smart Investments in Minnesota’s Students, Angie Eilers, PhD, Growth & Justice.
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