Bill Text: HI HB2129 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Professional Development For Teachers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-09 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on LAT with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Luke, McDermott excused (2). [HB2129 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-HB2129-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that professional development for teachers is a vital way to ensure our teachers can use the best, research-based educational practices within their classrooms. To provide our students with the best education possible, our teachers must be provided with the opportunity to receive adequate training. In particular, job‑embedded professional development can often prove to be more effective than stand-alone training sessions.
In the collectively-bargained agreement between the Hawaii State Board of Education and the Hawaii State Teachers Association that expired on June 30, 2021, there was a memorandum of understanding that allowed for twenty-one additional hours to be added to the teachers' workday without students. Those twenty-one hours were to be used for job‑embedded professional development to provide benefits, including a formalized structure for organizing training and learning time, reducing the need for substitute teachers, and eliminating teacher absences from classes for training. However, the memorandum of understanding expired on June 30, 2021, and because funding was not available, the memorandum of understanding was not renewed.
The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds for fiscal year 2022-2023 for twenty-one additional hours of professional development for teachers to replace the professional development hours that were lost when the memorandum of understanding expired without renewal.
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $16,600,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2022-2023 for twenty-one hours of professional development for teachers.
The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of education.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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BY REQUEST |
Report Title:
Department of Education; Professional Development; Teachers
Description:
Provides an appropriation for the department of education to provide twenty-one additional hours of professional development for teachers.
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