Creates a collective bargaining unit for substitute teachers of the Department of Education, including part-time substitute teachers working less than one-half of a full-time equivalent.

LBR/EDM, WAM

RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS

Requires the board of education to develop a classification/compensation plan for substitute teachers' pay commensurate with their educational training and academic qualifications.

LBR/EDM, WAM

RELATING TO EDUCATION

Establishes an advisory salary commission to develop a substitute teacher classification and compensation plan.

LBR/EDM, WAM

RELATING TO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CIVIL SERVICE PERSONNEL

Provides civil service benefits in the executive branch civil service system for those employees who are members of the DOE civil service system.

RELATING TO EDUCATION

Exempts retired teachers who held a valid license or certification at the time of their retirement from any prerequisite coursework required to substitute teach for a 10-year period, unless requested not to be so exempt by the school.

LBR/EDM

RELATING TO THE OVERPAYMENT OF TEACHERS

Limits to 2 years from the date of overpayment, the State's ability to recover moneys from a public school teacher as a result of an overpayment due to an error made by the department of education.

LBR/EDM, WAM

RELATING TO SALARY COMPENSATION

Requires the State to compensate state employees and officers on active duty in a hostile fire zone the difference between their higher state pay and their military pay.

LBR/EDM, WAM

RELATING TO EDUCATION WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PIPELINE

Amends the composition of the workforce development council. Amends the duties of the Hawaii workforce development council to include job training program funding disbursal and a determination of the actual time required to complete these programs. Appropriates funds.

RELATING TO EDUCATION

Allows the department to hire individuals with professional experience and university degrees as exceptional teachers and to authorize alternative licensing routes based on performance-based standards and giving credit toward licensing for prior teaching experience in public schools outside of Hawaii and at accredited private schools, colleges, or universities.

RELATING TO VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

Establishes in the DOE an alternative vocational education program that allows students enrolled in the eleventh and twelfth grades to opt into full time vocational education programs as an alternative to regular education programming. Places such students within state workers' compensation coverage.

EDM/LBR, WAM

RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Allows the department of education to hire individuals with either professional or educational experience as exempt hires. Authorizes alternative routes to licensing based on professional or educational experience and allows for compensation commensurate with professional or educational experience.

RELATING TO TEACHERS

Establishes annual increment salary increases for teachers and creates a comprehensive evaluation process for teachers.

RELATING TO TEACHER COMPENSATION

Requires teachers to receive their normal annual increment or longevity increase, as the case may be, for a year's satisfactory service in any fiscal year that an increase in the appropriate salary schedule is effected, except as provided by law.

RELATING TO TEACHERS

Implements various programs and amendments to encourage teacher retention and recruitment. Appropriates funds.

RELATING TO TEACHERS

Establishes teacher licensure reciprocity with other states' licensure and national board certification.

RELATING TO TEACHERS

Allows the department of education to hire individuals with a license from another state and teaching experience as reciprocal hires and to authorize alternative licensing routes based on performance-based standards and giving credit toward licensing for prior teaching experience in public schools outside of Hawaii and at accredited private schools, colleges, or universities.

RELATING TO EDUCATION

Allows certain teacher loans to be forgiven after employment at a neighbor island public school for a specified number of years as determined by the department. Appropriates funds.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHOOLS

Appropriates funds to develop and establish professional development schools within Hawaii public schools to train preservice teachers.

RELATING TO TEACHERS

Provides a tax deduction of up to $250 for classroom supply expenses incurred by a public school administrator, teacher or other staff member.

RELATING TO THE TEACHER CADET PROGRAM

Provides funding to expand the teacher cadet program to include six additional public schools.

RELATING TO EDUCATION

Appropriates funds to address teacher shortage.

EDM, WAM

RELATING TO STUDENT SERVICES COORDINATORS

Requires the department of education to review its budget regarding the position of student services coordinators.

EDM, WAM

RELATING TO EDUCATION

Provides funds for part-time teachers, tutors, or both for elementary and intermediate schools in the public school system that need them.

EDM, WAM

RELATING TO STUDENTS

Appropriates funds to the department of education to phase in the reduction of class size in grades three, four, and five to twenty-five students per classroom.

EDM, WAM

RELATING TO EDUCATION

Reduces the student-to-teacher ratio in kindergarten to 4th grade to 20 students to 1 teacher, over a period of 3 fiscal years. Appropriates funds for the reduction.

RELATING TO EDUCATION

Requires that additional part-time teachers, aides, or both, be added when the 1-to-26 ratio is exceeded in grades 3 to 5 in public schools.

RELATING TO CLASS SIZE REDUCTION

Requires the department of education, subject to the availability of funds, to reduce the ratio of students to teachers in grade three to not more than twenty students to one teacher, over a period of four years.

RELATING TO CLASS SIZE REDUCTION

Requires the department of education, subject to the availability of funds, to reduce the ratio of students to teachers in kindergarten to grade two to not more than eighteen students to one teacher, over a period of four years.

RELATING TO EDUCATION

Allows teacher educators at the University of Hawaii to participate in the teacher national board certification incentive program. Defines "teacher educator" and appropriates funds.

RELATING TO EDUCATION

Requires the department of education to prepare a report assessing the impact of the policy on course completion and promotion rates and the policy's effect on middle school instruction, achievement, and resources.

RELATING TO EDUCATION

Appropriates funds to track, coordinate, and facilitate volunteer efforts in public schools through the establishment of a volunteer coordinator position and volunteer pilot project.

RELATING TO EDUCATION

Facilitates the transfer of positions and funds to the DOE, reduces class size in junior kindergarten and grade three, and enhances DOE access to information technology. Allows the DOE to carry over unencumbered funds.

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Senator Norman Sakamoto

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Senator Brian Kanno