Bill Text: HI HB2690 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Arts and Culture Education
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-01 - Referred to EDN, VMI, FIN, referral sheet 5 [HB2690 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2016-HB2690-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016 |
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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. The legislature finds that arts and culture education promotes creative thinking and improves academic achievement across subject areas. A 2014 Harvard Graduate School of Education study indicates that education in music and drama contributes to an increase in verbal achievement and spatial reasoning. In 2013, researchers at the University of Arkansas, Department of Education Reform, similarly found that instruction in visual arts led to gains in critical thinking skills.
The legislature further finds that place-based curricula immerses students in the culture, history, and heritage of local communities and encourages students to apply cultural content to local community experiences. Hawaii has a unique history. Several communities in the State face problems dealing with the legacy of annexation, including a higher risk of poverty and lower levels of academic achievement for native Hawaiians. Place-based education is essential to provide students with the skills necessary to solve community problems.
The purpose of this Act is to promote creative thinking, self-directed learning, and cultural understanding by requiring all elementary, middle, and intermediate public schools to allocate a specified amount of student hours to arts and culture education.
SECTION 2. Chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§302A- Arts and culture education. (a) Beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, all elementary, middle, and intermediate public schools shall allocate twenty per cent of all student hours to arts and culture education.
(b) As used in this section:
""Arts and culture education" means instruction in visual arts, music, theatre, dance, Hawaiian and Polynesian studies, Hawaiian language, native Hawaiian culture, native Hawaiian traditional and customary practices, and physical education.
"Student hours" has the same meaning as in section 302A-251."
SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Arts and Culture Education
Description:
Beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, requires all elementary, middle, and intermediate public schools to allocate 20 percent of all student hours to arts and culture education.
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