Report Title:

Teacher Education Coordinating Committee

 

Description:

Changes the membership of the Teacher Education Coordinating Committee to include a representative from each accredited state-approved teacher education unit.  (HB184 HD1)

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

184

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO TEACHER EDUCATION COORDINATING COMMITTEE.

 

 

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

 

     SECTION 1.  In the past several years the teacher education coordinating committee has worked to strengthen the efforts of all teacher education institutions in Hawaii to prepare quality teachers for Hawaii's public schools.  The legislature supports the committee's proposal to clarify the membership of the committee to allow all state-approved teacher education units to have a representative on the committee.

     SECTION 2.  Section 304A-1202, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  There is created an advisory committee to be known as the teacher education coordinating committee to identify, study, take action, or make recommendations on matters of education of common interest to the department of education and institutions of higher learning in Hawaii.  The membership of the committee shall include the superintendent of education and the dean of the college of education of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, who shall serve in alternate years as chairperson of the committee with the superintendent acting as the first chairperson, a representative from each accredited [teacher training institution in Hawaii,] state-approved teacher education unit, and a representative from the Hawaii teacher standards board.  In addition, the superintendent of education and the dean of the college of education may each appoint other members to the committee[;] as needed; provided that the dean of the college of education shall appoint at least two members of the committee from the university who are not within the college of education."

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2009.