Which lawmakers-the newly electeds as well as the returning veterans-will be shaping state public education policy when Colorado’s General Assembly convenes next month? Chalkbeat Colorado’s Nicholas Garcia serves up a preview in a report on the 2017 legislature’s House and Senate education committees.

The report offers some insights:

The Senate Education Committee is made up of Capitol veterans deeply entrenched in their respective ideological camps. The committee’s hearings could be fiercely partisan.

…as well as a snapshot of what’s on the table policy-wise;

Many topics the committees and the rest of the General Assembly will wrestle with next year should be familiar: the state’s testing system, funding for charter schools, and teacher hiring and training. New issues likely to surface include how some districts and schools are given waivers from some state policies, and how the state may respond to the new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act.

You’ll also find the full roster of House and Senate Education Committee members. Check it out. Here’s the link again.