Bill Text: HI HB2359 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Teacher Compensation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-28 - Referred to EDN/LAT, FIN, referral sheet 3 [HB2359 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-HB2359-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 TEACHER COMPENSATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the recruitment and retention of qualified teachers is essential to the success of Hawaii's public education system. The State continues to face a chronic teacher shortage, which undermines student learning and achievement. For example, during the 2018-2019 school year, the department of education experienced a qualified teacher shortage of one thousand twenty-nine positions.
The legislature further finds that research indicates that competitive and equitable compensation correlates with greater success in recruiting and retaining qualified educators. Yet, numerous studies have shown that Hawaii's teacher salaries are the lowest in the nation when adjusted for the State's high cost of living.
The legislature also finds that teacher salaries are unequal as experienced senior teachers are aligned with less experienced teachers in the existing salary schedules. Inequitable pay scales have driven experienced senior teachers to either retire early or leave the profession due to the perception that their experience and dedication to public education and the teaching profession will never be adequately valued and recognized.
The legislature further finds that an increasing number of school districts around the country are utilizing compensation methods and strategies designed to improve the recruitment and retention of qualified teachers.
Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to fund experimental modernization projects pursuant to section 78-3.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to address compensation equity issues and make the necessary discretionary salary adjustments for experienced senior teachers by recognizing their professional service to the department of education.
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2022-2023 to fund an experimental modernization project pursuant to section 78-3.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as negotiated between the superintendent of education and the exclusive representative of collective bargaining unit (5) in a memorandum of understanding to address compensation equity issues and make the necessary discretionary salary adjustments for approximately eight thousand seven hundred teachers whose current base salaries do not reflect their years of professional service.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act; provided that the moneys shall not be released or expended until the memorandum of understanding is executed between the superintendent of education and the exclusive representative of collective bargaining unit (5).
SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2022-2023 for charter schools (EDN 600) to fund an experimental modernization project pursuant to section 78-3.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as negotiated between the state public charter school commission and the exclusive representative of collective bargaining unit (5) in a memorandum of understanding to address compensation equity issues and make the necessary discretionary salary adjustments for teachers whose current base salaries do not reflect their years of professional service.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the state public charter school commission for the purposes of this Act; provided that the moneys shall not be released or expended until the memorandum of understanding is executed between the state public charter school commission and the exclusive representative of collective bargaining unit (5).
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2022.
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INTRODUCED BY: |
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Report Title:
Department of Education; State Public Charter School Commission; Charter Schools; Teacher Compensation; Experimental Modernization Projects; Appropriations
Description:
Appropriates moneys to fund experimental modernization projects pursuant to section 78-3.5, HRS, to make necessary discretionary salary adjustments.
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