STAND. COM. REP. NO.652
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: S.B. No. 530
S.D. 2
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 530, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to provide salary incentives to keep exemplary principals and vice-principals at the school level; and to encourage exemplary principals and vice-principals to accept long-term assignments to hard-to-staff schools, special needs schools, and schools with high teacher turnover.
In addition, this measure provides salary incentives to:
(1) Encourage exemplary teachers to become vice-principals;
(2) Encourage exemplary vice-principals to become principals; and
(3) Encourage exemplary educational officers to become vice-principals.
Specifically, this measure:
(1) Reduces from five years to three years, the amount of time that principals and vice-principals must have served as teachers;
(2) Allows the Board of Education to grant principals and vice-principals increments and longevity step increases more frequently than once every three years;
(3) Defines the term "special needs schools" to mean those schools having a relatively large proportion of students exhibiting low performance, as indicated by such factors as low standardized achievement test scores, a high retention rate, and a low graduation rate for the area;
(4) Allows principals and vice-principals to accept incentive packages provided by local communities for the purpose of retaining those principals and vice-principals in schools with high principal and vice-principal turnover; and
(5) Appropriates moneys:
(A) For the Department of Education to fund the abovementioned salary incentives;
(B) For the Hawaii School Leadership Academy to help exemplary teachers to become vice-principals, help exemplary vice-principals to become principals, and help exemplary educational officers to become vice-principals;
(C) For the Hawaii School Leadership Academy to help all principals and vice-principals to become exemplary school administrators, and support principals and vice-principals who accept long-term assignments to hard-to-staff schools, special needs schools, and schools with high teacher turnover; and
(D) For the Superintendent of Education to award tuition assistance to exemplary teachers who want to become vice-principals in Hawaii's public schools, and who are taking courses that will lead to certification as a public school principal, on any campus of the University of Hawaii.
Your Committee received testimony supporting the intent of this measure from the Department of Education and the Hawaii Government Employees Association.
Your Committee has amended this measure by requiring the salary ranges and salary incentives for educational officer positions to be negotiated through the collective bargaining process.
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. 530, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 530, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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