SB 1385

relating to the salary structure of educational officers in the department of education.

Requires the BOE, before 7/1/2002, to adopt a classification and compensation structure for educational officers that more accurately reflects the level of work being performed.

SB 821

SD2

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR LAPTOPS FOR LEARNING.

Makes an appropriation for the laptops for learning program and expands the program to include loaners. Requires the DOE to report on the success of the program. (SD2)

SB 582

SD1

relating to cyberspace entrepreneurs academies.

Appropriates funds to the department of education to establish an academy relating to cyberspace entrepreneurs in the public school system. (SD1)

SB 132

SD1

making an appropriation for the peer education program.

Appropriates funds to maintain and expand the services provided by the department of education's peer education program. (SD1)

SB 197

RELATING TO JUVENILES.

Allows the family court to provide written notice to the district superintendent or chief administrator when a minor enrolled in a public or private school, K-12, has been adjudicated to have committed a felony for the limited purpose of rehabilitating the minor or protecting students and staff. (SD2)

SB 535

SD2

relating to education.

Requires the department of education to establish risk management and related programs for school administrators, teachers, and other school personnel to mitigate the potential for liability in the performance of their jobs; makes appropriation. (SD2)

SB 823

RELATED TO LIMITED LIABILITY.

Limits liability of educational officers and teachers against any claims related to the Felix-Cayetano consent decree and to services for exceptional children. (SD1)

SB 525

relating to textbooks.

Retains textbook replacement fees in school accounts. (SD1)

SB 584

SD2

relating to DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PERSONNEL.

Allows the DOE to hire former teachers, principals, or vice principals who have been retired from state service for not less than two years for hard-to-fill positions, allowing them to continue to receive retirement benefits, but not accrue additional retirement benefits based on post-retirement employment. (SD2)

SB 530

relating to school administrators.

Provides incentives to keep exemplary principals and vice-principals (VPs) at the school level; encourage exemplary principals and VPs to accept long-term assignments to hard-to-staff schools, special needs schools, and schools with high teacher turnover; encourage exemplary teachers to become VPs. (SD2)

SB 1362

Relating to coaches.

Requires coaches coaching for the DOE to be paid on an allocation basis. Requires coaches to receive allocation increases commensurate to those collectively bargained for teachers. Appropriates funds to increase the base allocations of coaches who are employed by the DOE in other capacities by one hundred per cent and coaches who are not employed by the DOE in other capacities by fifty per cent. (SD2)

SB 670

SD1

RELATING TO THE HAWAII STATE STUDENT COUNCIL.

Establishes the Hawaii state student council, with student representatives from each departmental school district; requires the council to conduct an annual conference of secondary students; and requires the council to determine whether to select the student member of the BOE or to run an election to select the individual. (SD1)

SB 1577

RELATING TO SCHOOL FACILITIEs

SB 1567

relating to school complexes.

Requires DOE to offer students eligible for free or reduced cost school lunch a subsidized school bus fare to their new school for a period not to exceed one year when they are forced to transfer schools because of redistricting. Appropriates money to pay for the subsidized bus fares. (SD2)

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Rep. Ken Ito