Report Title:
Reinventing Education Act of 2004; Appropriation
Description:
Appropriates funds to subsidize DOE information systems projects and provide additional support personnel and training to support the amendments made by Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004. (SD1)
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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
1661 |
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TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005 |
S.D. 1 |
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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. The department of education is in the process of reinventing itself through Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, also known as the Reinventing Education Act of 2004. The fundamental premise of Act 51 is defined by three distinct efforts:
(1) Empowerment of schools;
(2) Accountability for specific outcomes; and
(3) The streamlining of the department of education through more autonomy from other agencies.
The department of education's information systems and infrastructure require major upgrades to accommodate and enable the following outcomes over the next five years:
(1) Providing student longitudinal data analysis to assist target specific student populations for raising student achievement;
(2) Increasing the number of students graduating from eighty per cent of the entering freshmen class to ninety per cent;
(3) Increasing the level of parental involvement through online access of student attendance, homework, and progress;
(4) Reducing the time it takes to handle teacher transfer and assignment from five months to one month;
(5) Reducing the number of new teachers hired annually from 1,600 to 1,000 teachers through better streamlining of processes within the department's human resources systems;
(6) Reducing the number of seniors not graduating from five hundred to two hundred fifty;
(7) Increasing the number of teachers having ready access to student information from four hundred ninety to eleven thousand;
(8) Automating academic and financial planning process for all schools;
(9) Automating school accountability; and
(10) Supporting all personnel transferred from the departments of accounting and general services, human resources development, human services, and other agencies to the department of education.
The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to assist in the continued implementation of Act 51 and to allow the department of education to carryover unencumbered appropriations.
SECTION 2. Section 37-41.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) The department of education may retain [up to five per cent of any appropriation,] appropriations, except for appropriations to fund financing agreements entered into in accordance with chapter 37D, at the close of a fiscal year and the funds retained shall not lapse until June 30 of the first fiscal year of the next fiscal biennium. The department of education shall submit:
(1) A report to the director of finance ninety days after the close of each fiscal year, which shall be prepared in the form prescribed by the director of finance and shall identify the total amount of funds that will carry over to the next fiscal year; and
(2) A copy of this report to the legislature, as well as a report identifying the carryover of funds on a school-by-school basis, at least twenty days prior to the convening of the next regular session of the legislature."
SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $5,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2005-2006, and the sum of $8,000,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2006-2007, to:
(1) Subsidize information systems projects;
(2) Provide for additional support personnel and training;
(3) Provide two additional DPSA IV and three additional DPSA V positions in fiscal year 2006-2007; and
(4) Continue the implementation of Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2005.