THE TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2010
|
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND HOUSING |
|
Senator Norman Sakamoto, Chair |
|
Senator Michelle Kidani, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF HEARING
|
DATE: |
Monday, February 08, 2010 |
|
TIME: |
1:45 PM |
|
PLACE: |
Conference Room 225 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
|
RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires remote schools to be allocated funds using categorical allotments, rather than through the weighted student formula. Defines a remote school as any public school within a school complex that has the only public high school within a fifteen-mile radius or on an island.
|
EDH, WAM |
|
|
RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Requires that all public schools, including charter schools, offer a minimum of one hundred ninety instructional days per school year.
|
EDH, WAM |
|
|
RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes an extended learning opportunities program within the department of education. Allows nonprofits and public-private partnerships to operate extended learning opportunities. Appropriates funds to establish the program.
|
EDH, WAM |
|
|
RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires DOE to make technical assistance and training to support students with dyslexia available to teachers, educational officers, and employees providing instruction or special services for exceptional children. Requires DOE to coordinate technical assistance and training efforts with teacher preparation programs in institutions of higher learning in the State.
|
EDH, WAM |
|
|
RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes and appropriates funds for an electronic book pilot program for an intermediate or middle school to be selected by the department of education. |
EDH, WAM |
|
|
RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the department of education (DOE) to use school-based curriculum to include teaching materials that are consistent with the federal government's Race to the Top fund selection criteria. Requires the DOE to report to the legislature recommendations for the establishment of consistent curricula and assessments and methods of optimizing economies of scale in the purchase of teaching materials for military students who are transitioning to Hawaii schools.
|
EDH, WAM |
|
|
RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Requires the department of education to establish a searchable budget database website. Requires that the website be made publicly available no later than 07/01/2011.
|
EDH, WAM |
|
|
RELATING TO THE HAWAII TEACHER STANDARDS BOARD. Implements recommendations for the Hawaii teacher standards board by establishing an investigative panel; requiring the attorney general or a designee to serve as an ex officio member of the board; requiring the board to include expenditure information in the annual report; authorizing the board to delegate to the executive director powers and duties; requiring the board to determine if fees shall be raised; requiring the board to develop a comprehensive plan for transferring nonessential functions and duties to other agencies; requiring the board to review its teacher license renewal process; requiring the board and the department of education to clarify their respective powers, duties, responsibilities.
|
EDH, WAM |
|
|
RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the department of education to consider making public school facilities available to charter schools, when public schools are closed.
|
EDH, WAM |
|
|
RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Requires the department of education to make available vacant school facilities or portions of school facilities for use by charter schools. Requires the charter school review panel to review and approve or deny applications to use vacant school facilities or portions of school facilities.
|
EDH, WAM |
|
|
RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Establishes a task force to clarify sources of funding for the per-pupil funding formula for charter schools, identify discrepancies in the calculation of the formula for charter schools and non-charter schools, and recommend the portion of certain expenses that should be allocated to charter schools. Requires report to the legislature.
|
EDH, WAM |
|
|
RELATING TO THE CHARTER SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE. Requires the charter school administrative office to withhold funds for its operational expenses, including salaries for staff and the executive director. The total amount of withheld funds shall be determined by the review panel and shall not exceed two per cent of the total charter school general fund appropriation.
|
EDH, WAM |
|
|
RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Requires the charter school review panel (CSRP) to determine a clear process with rigorous criteria for charter schools to be reauthorized. Requires the CSRP to reauthorize a charter school no later than three years following the initial issue of the charter, and every five years thereafter. Requires the charter school administrative office (CSAO) to withhold funds for its operational expenses, the total amount of which shall be determined by the CSRP, not exceed two per cent of the total charter school general fund appropriation. Requires the CSAO to report annually to the CSRP individual and aggregate operational and instructional expenditures of charter schools. Requires per-pupil allocation checks paid by the CSAO to individual charter schools to be co-signed by the executive director of the CSAO and an agent of the CSRP. Repeals the cap on the number of start-up and conversion charter schools.
|
EDH, WAM |
|
|
RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Requires charter schools to maintain accounting and financial records and conduct a financial audit annually. Requires that failure to maintain records and conduct the audit result in suspension of the school's charter. Establishes a process for appealing the suspension and for revoking a charter. Authorizes the department of education to suspend the release of general funds to a charter school and requires that the charter school be ineligible for further general funds until the panel votes to remove the charter school from probation.
|
EDH, WAM |
|
|
RELATING TO PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS. Repeals the cap on public charter schools, allows for multiple public charter school authorizers, requires public charter schools to apply for charter reauthorization, and ensures that public charter school students receive funding equal to non-charter public school students; authorizes the Governor to appoint the Charter School Review Panel with the advice and consent of the Senate; transfers the oversight of the Charter School Administrative Office from an executive director to a Deputy Superintendent of Public Charter Schools; makes technical amendments to clarify that charter schools are part of the state public education system; and improves Hawaii's ability to compete for federal funding under the Race to the Top grant program of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
|
EDH, WAM |
|
|
RELATING TO FUNDING OF CHARTER SCHOOLS. Provides a charter school, or public school as applicable, with a pro rata share of per pupil funds when a student transfers from a public school to a charter school, or vice versa, subsequent to the annual charter school student enrollment verification.
|
EDH, WAM |
|
|
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 2, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION. Allows the student board of education member to be a voting member and mandates the election of the student board of education member by public secondary school students.
|
EDH, JGO |
|
|
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 2, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO ALLOW THE STUDENT MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO VOTE. Proposes an amendment to article X, section 2 of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to allow the student member of the board of education to vote on all matters.
|
EDH, JGO |
|
|
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 2, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO CHANGE THE BOARD OF EDUCATION FROM AN ENTIRELY ELECTED BOARD TO A PARTIALLY ELECTED, PARTIALLY APPOINTED BOARD. Proposes a constitutional amendment to require a minority, but no fewer than five, of the voting members of the board of education to be elected, as provided by law, and a majority of the voting members to be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, as provided by law.
|
EDH, JGO |
|
|
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO CHANGE THE COMPOSITION OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Proposes a constitutional amendment to change the composition of the board of education by having 7 members elected at-large and 4 members appointed by the governor subject to senate confirmation.
|
EDH, JGO |
|
|
RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Changes the board of education from an entirely elected board to a partially appointed, partially elected board. Establishes the board of education candidate nomination commission.
|
EDH, JGO |
|
|
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 2, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO CHANGE THE BOARD OF EDUCATION FROM AN ELECTED BOARD TO AN APPOINTED BOARD. Proposes a constitutional amendment to require voting members of the board of education to be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, as provided by law.
|
EDH, JGO |
|
|
RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Establishes the board of education candidate nomination commission to nominate candidates for the board of education to be appointed by the governor.
|
EDH, JGO |
|
|
A BILL PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION RELATING TO EDUCATION. Amends the state constitution to remove from the board of education the power to appoint the superintendent of education. Authorizes the governor to appoint the superintendent of education.
|
EDH, JGO |
|
|
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 2, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO CHANGE THE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO AN APPOINTED BOARD. Proposes amendments to the state constitution to allow for the governor to appoint the board of education members as opposed to being elected by voters.
|
EDH, JGO |
|
|
RELATING TO EDUCATION. Authorizes the governor, instead of the board of education, to appoint the superintendent of education.
|
EDH, JGO |
|
|
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 3, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO REMOVE THE POWER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO APPOINT THE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION, TO ENABLE THE GOVERNOR TO APPOINT THE SUPERINTENDENT AS PROVIDED BY LAW. Proposes an amendment to the state constitution to remove the power of the board of education to appoint the superintendent of education.
|
EDH, JGO |
Decision Making to follow, if time permits.
FOR AMENDED HEARING NOTICES: If the notice is an amended notice, measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored. If there is a measure that is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.
Persons wishing to testify should submit testimony in one of the following ways by 4:00 p.m. the day prior to the hearing:
· By Email: Testimony may be emailed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Committee at EDHTestimony@Capitol.hawaii.gov . Please indicate the measure, date and time of the hearing. Email sent to individual offices or any other Senate office will not be accepted.
· By Web: Testimony may be submitted online if less than 4MB in size, at http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/emailtestimony.
· In person: 1 copy of their testimony to the committee clerk, Room 230, State Capitol.
· By fax: Testimony may be faxed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Senate Sergeant-At-Arms Office at 586-6659 or 1-800-586-6659 (toll free for neighbor islands), at least 24 hours prior to the hearing. When faxing, please indicate to which committee the testimony is being submitted and the date and time of the hearing.
Please note: If you submit your written testimony after 4:00 p.m. the day prior to the hearing, please sign-in at the staff table to testify orally. A copy of your testimony may not be available during the hearing but will be posted online for the public after the hearing.
If you require special assistance or auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e., sign or foreign language interpreter or wheelchair accessibility), please contact the committee clerk 24 hours prior to the hearing so arrangements can be made.
Please note: All testimony received by the Hawaii Senate will be posted on the Hawaii Legislature's Website. Documents made available through the Testimony hyperlink(s) above may not be posted until the start of the hearing.
Public Folder. A folder labeled “Public Folder” containing the testimonies for the hearing will be available for shared use by members of the public.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-8585.
|
|
|
_________________________________ Senator Norman Sakamoto Chair |