Bill Text: HI SB1375 | 2011 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Instructional Days; Multi Track Public Schools
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-04-04 - (H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. [SB1375 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2011-SB1375-Amended.html
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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 time. (a) Notwithstanding any other law to the
contrary, for the 2011-2013 school years, all public schools, except 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:
(1) Nine hundred fifteen student instructional hours for the elementary school grades; and
(2) Nine hundred ninety student instructional hours for the secondary school grades.
(b) Notwithstanding any other law to the
contrary, for the 2013-2015 school years, all public schools, except 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.
(c) Multi-track public schools shall implement a school year of no less than either one hundred seventy-one days or ninety per cent of the number of days required in other public schools, except charter schools, under subsections (a) and (b) for each respective school year, whichever number is greater; provided that multi-track public schools shall meet the instructional hours requirements under subsections (a) and (b).
[(c)] (d) 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."
SECTION 2. Act 167, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, is amended by amending section 4 to read as follows:
"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, shall
submit to the legislature, no later than twenty days prior to the convening of
the regular session of 2012, a plan to implement the following requirements
for school years beginning with the 2015-2016 school year:
(1) For elementary and secondary
school grades at all public schools, except 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 both elementary and secondary
school grades at all public schools, except charter schools, for school years
beginning with the 2015-2016 school year.]; and
(2) For all multi-track public schools, no less than ninety per cent of the number of days required in other public schools, except charter schools, under paragraph (1).
For purposes of this section, "student
instructional hours" shall have the same meaning as in section [302A- ,]
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, 2050.
Report Title:
Instructional Days; Multi Track Public Schools
Description:
Requires multi-track public schools to have a school year of at least one hundred seventy-one days or ninety per cent of the minimum days required of other non-charter public schools. Requires the Department of Education to submit to the legislature a plan to implement a school year for multi-track schools beginning with the 2015-2016 school year of ninety per cent of the minimum instructional days required of other non-charter public schools. Effective July 1, 2050. (SB1375 HD1)
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