Bill Text: HI SB2535 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Instructional Time; Bell Schedules
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-10 - (H) Failed to pass Third Reading with 19 Ayes, representative Awana voting aye with reservations; 32 Noes Rep.(s) Representative(s) Aquino, Brower, Carroll, Chang, Ching, Choy, Cullen, Fontaine, Giugni, Hanohano, Har, Hashem, Ichiyama, Johanson, Kawakami, Keith-Agaran, C. Lee, M. Lee, Luke, Manahan, Marumoto, McKelvey, Morikawa, Nakashima, Pine, Riviere, Takai, Thielen, Tokioka, Ward, Wooley, Yamane; and 0 Excused. [SB2535 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2535-Amended.html
THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO INSTRUCTIONAL TIME.
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, 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 the 2014-2016 school
years,] beginning with the 2014-2015 school 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,] beginning no later than
the 2014-2015 school year, 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.] shall maintain standard instructional periods
by implementing a bell schedule developed by the board under subsection (e).
(e) The board shall develop multiple standard bell schedule options for elementary, middle, and high schools. A school shall have the discretion to implement one of the available bell schedules for each grade level. The board shall consider additional factors that may affect scheduling requirements when developing such bell schedules. These factors shall include but not be limited to:
(1) The individual needs of each complex area;
(2) Student transportation schedules within each complex area and service area;
(3) Individual school population;
(4) Teacher-student ratios at each school; and
(5) The relationship between individual schools within a complex area.
[(e)] (f) The board, in its
discretion, may grant a waiver to any individual school subject to the student
instructional hours, standard instructional periods, 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.
(g) This section shall not apply to charter schools and multi-track public schools.
[(f)] (h) For purposes of this
section, "student instructional hours" means [student]:
(1) Student learning time in
elementary schools during which students are engaged in learning activities,
including [regularly-scheduled] regularly scheduled instruction [and],
project-based learning assignments, technology-assisted learning, learning
assessments within the curriculum, [and does not include lunch, recess, or
passing time.] and all other activities in which there is a related
general learner outcome attached to such time; and
(2) Student learning time in secondary schools during which students are engaged in learning activities, including regularly scheduled instruction, project-based learning assignments, technology-assisted learning, and learning assessments within the curriculum; provided that for the purposes of determining the adequacy of instructional time for secondary schools, "student instructional hours" may include:
(A) Presentations by persons other than teachers;
(B) Directed study;
(C) Time spent in homeroom;
(D) Student advisory time;
(E) Statewide performance assessment; and
(F) All other activities in which there is a related general learner outcome attached to such time.
[(g)] (i) 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, and 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. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
Instructional Time; Bell Schedules
Description:
Requires the Board of Education to develop multiple standard bell schedules for elementary, middle, and high schools, with the exception of charter schools and multi-track public schools. Amends the public education instructional time law. (SB2535 HD2)
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