HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO EDUCATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 302A-251, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§302A-251 School year; [instructional]
student [time.] hours. (a) Notwithstanding any other
law to the contrary, beginning with the 2011-2013 school years, all public
schools, excluding charter schools and multi-track public schools, shall
implement a school year of one hundred eighty days, excluding professional
development days and other non-instructional days negotiated pursuant to
chapter 89.
(b) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary:
(1) For the 2011-2012 school year, fifty per
cent of all public elementary schools in the State, excluding charter schools
and multi-track public schools, shall implement a school year that includes
nine hundred fifteen student [instructional] hours; and
(2) Beginning with the 2012-2013 school
year, all public elementary schools in the State, excluding charter schools and
multi-track public schools, shall implement a school year that includes nine
hundred fifteen student [instructional] hours.
(c) Notwithstanding any other law to the
contrary, [for] beginning with the [2014-2016] 2015-2016
school [years,] year, all public secondary schools, excluding
charter schools and multi-track public schools, shall implement a school year
that includes nine hundred ninety student [instructional] hours.
(d) Notwithstanding any other law to the
contrary, for the 2016-2018 school years, all public schools, excluding charter
schools and multi-track public schools, shall implement a school year of one
hundred eighty days, excluding professional development days and other
non-instructional days negotiated pursuant to chapter 89, that shall include
one thousand eighty student [instructional] hours for both elementary
and secondary school grades.
(e) The board, in its discretion, may grant a
waiver to any individual school subject to the student [instructional]
hours or one hundred eighty day school year requirements in this section. The
board shall adopt policies and procedures to grant a waiver under this
subsection.
(f) For purposes of this section,
"student [instructional] hours" [means student learning
time during which students are engaged in learning activities including
regularly-scheduled instruction and learning assessments within the curriculum,
and does not include lunch, recess, or passing time.] shall be defined
by the board in consultation with the exclusive representatives of the
appropriate bargaining units.
(g) The department of education, with the board of education and office of the governor, and in consultation with representatives of the affected collective bargaining units, shall submit to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular sessions of 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, a report on its progress and efforts to meet the requirements of subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d)."
SECTION 2. Act 167, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, as amended by Act 52, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011, is amended by repealing section 4.
["SECTION 4. The department of
education shall, with the board of education and office of the governor, and in
consultation with representatives of the affected collective bargaining units,
submit to the legislature, no later than twenty days prior to the convening of
the regular session of 2015, a plan to implement beginning with the 2018-2019
school year, for elementary and secondary school grades at all public schools,
excluding charter schools and multi-track public schools, a school year of one
hundred ninety days, excluding professional development days and other
non-instructional days negotiated pursuant to chapter 89, Hawaii Revised
Statutes, that shall include one thousand one hundred forty student
instructional hours.
For purposes of this section, "student
instructional hours" shall have the same meaning as in section 302A-251,
Hawaii Revised Statutes."]
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2015.
Report Title:
Department of Education; Student Hours
Description:
Applies the requirement for all public secondary schools to implement a school year that includes 990 student hours to all school years beginning with the 2015-2016 school year. Requires that by the 2016-2018 school years, the 180-day school year requirement include 1,080 student hours for both elementary and secondary school grades. Clarifies that the definition of "student hours" is to be determined by the Board of Education in consultation with the exclusive representatives of the appropriate bargaining units. (HB14 HD1)
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