Bill Text: HI SB822 | 2015 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Department of Education; Student Hours
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-04-23 - Act 021, on 4/23/2015 (Gov. Msg. No. 1121). [SB822 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2015-SB822-Amended.html
THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015 |
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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.] student hours. (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] 2015-2016 school [years,] 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] beginning with the [2016-2018] 2016-2017
school [years,] 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.
(e) The board, in its discretion, may grant a
waiver to any individual school subject to the student [instructional]
hours 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.
(f) 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.] shall be inclusive
of the full school day in alignment with the State's general learner outcomes.
(g) 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, 2015, and 2016, [2017, and 2018,] a report on its
progress and efforts to meet the requirements of subsections (a), (b), (c), and
(d)."
SECTION 2. Act 167, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, as amended by Act 52, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011, is amended by repealing section 4.
["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,
submit to the legislature, no later than twenty days prior to the convening of
the regular session of 2015, a plan to implement beginning with the 2018-2019
school year, for elementary and secondary school grades at all public schools,
excluding 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 purposes of this section, "student
instructional hours" shall have the same meaning as in section 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 upon its approval.
Report Title:
Department of Education; Student Hours
Description:
Clarifies the implementation schedule and calculation method for minimum number of days and student hours required for Department of Education schools in each school year. Applies the requirement for a 180 day, 1,080 hour school year to all school years beginning with the 2016-2017 school year. (SB822 HD2)
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