OASA Legislative & Mid-Winter Conference Tentative Agenda*
January 22 and 23, 2025
Embassy Suites Hotel, OKC
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
12:00 PM Registration
1:00 PM Welcome Dr. Pam Deering, CCOSA/OASA Exec. Dir./Scott Farmer, OASA President
Overview of Meeting Dr. Mike Simpson, Policy & Advocacy Chair
1:15 - 1:30 PM Opening Remarks Secretary of Education Nellie Tayloe Sanders
1:30 - 2:15 PM Panel: Speaker of the House Kyle Hilbert and Senate Appropriations Chair Chuck Hall
2:15-2:30 PM Break
2:30 PM More Money is Not Enough: Reconsidering SpED Funding Sara Doutre, WestEd
SpED Funding
3:15 PM Strengthening Partnerships Chancellor Sean Burrage, OK State Regents for Higher Ed
4:00 Wrap and Adjourn
5:00-6:30 PM Legislative Reception (invitation only) Embassy Suites
Thursday, January 23, 2025
7:30 AM Registration
8:30 AM Welcome Dr. Pam Deering, CCOSA/OASA Exec. Dir./Scott Farmer, OASA President
Keynote Address Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond (confirmed)
9:15 AM Trump 2.0 What to expect at the USED and with Federal Funding Tara Thomas
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM House Education Appropriations Chair Dick Lowe, Senate Education Chair Adam Pugh, and House Education Chair Dick Lowe
11:00 AM 2025 Oklahoma Legislative Update Megan Benn, Legislative Consultant
11:45 AM OASA Goals and Charge to the Members Dr. Mike Simpson, Policy & Advocacy Chair
12:00 PM Wrap Up and Adjourn Scott Farmer, OASA President
*Subject to change
