Bill Text: HI SB1375 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Instructional Days; Multi Track Public Schools
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB1375 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB1375-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 660
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 1375
S.D. 1
Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2011
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1375 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to address the unique needs of multi-track schools while maintaining educational standards for Hawaii's students by requiring:
(1) Multi-track public schools to have school years of at least one hundred seventy-one days or ninety percent of the minimum number of days required of other non-charter public schools, whichever number is greater, and at least ninety percent of the minimum number of student instructional hours; and
(2) The Department of Education to submit to the Legislature a plan to implement a multi-track school year of at least ninety percent of the number of days and instructional hours required of other non-charter public schools, beginning with the 2015-2016 school year.
Your Committee finds that multi-track schools are distinct from other schools in that groups of students attend the same multi-track school on different schedules as a means of addressing overcrowding. Because of the unique schedules of multi-track schools, the current mandate of one hundred eighty instructional days and minimum instructional hours for all public schools, beginning with the 2011-2012 school year, imposes an undue hardship on multi-track school students, parents, and staff. Alternative requirements will help ensure that multi-track schools meet their obligations to students under more manageable schedules.
To encourage further discussion, your Committee has amended this measure by changing:
(1) To unspecified amounts, the percentages of minimum school days and instructional hours required of other non-charter public schools that multi-track schools must implement; and
(2) The effective date to July 1, 2050.
Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for purposes of clarity and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1375, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1375, S.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair |
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