Bill Text: HI SB238 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Education; Instructional Hours

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-09 - Failed to pass Third Reading with 21 Ayes Rep.(s) Representative(s) Awana, Belatti, Cachola, Choy, Evans, Ichiyama, Jordan, Kobayashi, Luke, Mizuno, Nakashima, Nishimoto, Ohno, Onishi, Oshiro, Rhoads, Saiki, Souki, Takayama, Takumi, Yamashita; 30 Noes Rep.(s) Representative(s) Aquino, Brower, Cabanilla, Carroll, Cheape, Coffman, Cullen, Fale, Fukumoto, Hanohano, Har, Hashem, Ing, Ito, Johanson, Kawakami, C. Lee, Lowen, McDermott, McKelvey, Morikawa, Say, Takai, Thielen, Tokioka, Tsuji, Ward, Woodson, Wooley, Yamane ; and 0 Excused Rep.(s) none. [SB238 Detail]

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 472

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 238

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 238 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the definition of "student instructional hours" for elementary and secondary schools.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education, Hawaii Association of Independent Schools, Hui for Excellence in Education, and IMUAlliance.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Hawaii State Teachers Association and Hawaii Educational Policy Center.

 

     Your Committee finds that the definition of "student instructional hours" provided for in this measure will give the Department of Education greater flexibility and focus the discussion of instructional time around students and increasing access and opportunities to those teachable moments where students learn best.  It will also help to improve instruction and increase student engagement by encouraging project-based learning, technology-assisted learning, and all other activities to which a general learner outcome is attached.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 238 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

 

		____________________________ JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair