Report Title:

Education; Appropriation; Hoa Aina O Makaha

Description:

Appropriates funds to retain a teacher position for the Hoa Aina O Makaha cultural learning center.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2940

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that public school students attending Oahu schools have greatly benefited from the Hoa Aina O Makaha cultural learning center, where students participate in a variety of educational, cultural, and after-school programs. The center serves as a classroom without walls and standards-based instruction has been provided by a department of education resource teacher to over four thousand students who have visited from the Leeward coast and throughout Oahu during the past school year. Five thousand students are scheduled to visit the cultural learning center and be provided with standards-based activities and lessons connected to the Hawaii content and performance standards in school year 2005-2006.

The purpose of this Act is to provide funds to continue a teacher position at the Hoa Aina O Makaha cultural learning center so that the organization can continue to provide standards-connected programs and activities to public school students.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2006-2007, for the purpose of funding a teacher position at Hoa Aina O Makaha cultural learning center.

SECTION 3. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2006.

INTRODUCED BY:

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