THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2011
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COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION |
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Senator Jill N. Tokuda, Chair |
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Senator Michelle Kidani, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF HEARING
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DATE: |
Friday, February 11, 2011 |
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1:15PM |
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Conference Room 225 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Appropriates funds for the Families for R.E.A.L. program and professional and curriculum development in parent involvement for the department of education and the early learning council; requires the program to develop a plan to cover an unspecified percentage of the program costs through fees, grants, and private donations, beginning July 1, 2013; requires report to the legislature and governor.
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RELATING TO EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES. Allows home schooled students to participate on an equal basis in extracurricular activities offered at the public school they would otherwise be required to attend.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Allows home school students to participate in any extracurricular activities offered by a public school. Requires home school students to pay applicable activity-participation fees.
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Restructures the department of education into two major divisions – the academic achievement division and the administration division – and establishes two senior deputy superintendent positions to head the divisions.
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RELATING TO RECONSTITUTING SCHOOLS. Allows the superintendent of education to reconstitute a public school, except for certain charter schools. Allows the superintendent to recommend actions to charter school review panel, including the revocation of a school's charter.
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RELATING TO EARLY LEARNING. Appropriates funds to support operations of the early learning council.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires children who are not attending a private school or kindergarten and who are at least 5 years of age on August 1 of the school year to attend a public school kindergarten.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Makes attendance in kindergarten mandatory and lowers the compulsory education age from six to five years old. Requires children who are home-schooled or enrolled in alternative school programs for kindergarten to pass a standardized test approved by the Board of Education prior to entering first grade in a public school.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Exempts multi-track schools from required minimum of one hundred eighty instructional days; requires not fewer than one hundred seventy‑one days and one thousand eighty student instructional hours.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires multi track public schools to meet at least 171 days or 90 per cent of the minimum number of days required of other non-charter public schools for each respective school year, whichever number is greater, and at least 90 per cent of the minimum number of student instructional hours required of other non-charter public schools for each respective school year. Requires DOE to submit to the legislature a plan to implement a school year for multi track schools beginning with the 2015-2016 school year of no less than 90 per cent of the minimum number of instructional days and hours required of other public schools.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes a minimum instructional time requirement that is applicable only to public multi-track schools.
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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 EDUTestimony@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 218, 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.
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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 587-7215.
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________________________________________ Senator Jill Tokuda Chair |
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