Bill Text: HI HB60 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Education; Instructional Hours
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-13 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with Representative(s) Fale, Hanohano voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Coffman, Har, Say excused (3). [HB60 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-HB60-Amended.html
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TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013 |
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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 as follows:
1. By amending subsections (b) to (d) to read:
"(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 no less than 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 no less than nine hundred fifteen student instructional hours.
(c) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, for the 2014-2016 school years, all public secondary schools, excluding charter schools and multi-track public schools, shall implement a school year that includes no less than nine hundred ninety student instructional hours.
(d) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, for the 2016-2018 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, that shall include no less than one thousand eighty student instructional hours for both elementary and secondary school grades."
2. By amending subsection (f) to read:
"(f) 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] that may include 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 that may include regularly scheduled instruction, project-based learning assignments, technology-assisted learning, and learning assessments within the curriculum; provided that for 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."
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:
Education; Instructional Hours
Description:
Amends the definition of "student instructional hours" for elementary and secondary schools. Clarifies that specified student instructional hour requirements are minimum requirements. (HB60 HD1)
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