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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012 |
H.D. 1 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO INSTRUCTIONAL TIME.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 302A-251, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§302A-251 School year; instructional time. (a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, beginning with the 2011-2013 school years, all public schools, excluding charter schools and multi-track public schools, shall implement a school year of one hundred eighty days, excluding professional development days and other non-instructional days negotiated pursuant to chapter 89.
(b) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary:
(1) For the 2011-2012 school year, fifty per cent of all public elementary schools in the State, excluding charter schools and multi-track public schools, shall implement a school year that includes nine hundred fifteen student instructional hours; and
(2) Beginning with the 2012-2013 school year, all public elementary schools in the State, excluding charter schools and multi-track public schools, shall implement a school year that includes nine hundred fifteen student instructional hours.
(c) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, for the 2014-2016 school years, all public secondary schools, excluding charter schools and multi-track public schools, shall implement a school year that includes nine hundred ninety student instructional hours.
(d) Notwithstanding any other law to the
contrary, [for the 2016-2018 school years,] beginning no later than
the 2014-2015 school year, all public schools, excluding charter schools
and multi-track public schools, shall [implement a school year of one
hundred eighty days, excluding professional development days and other
non-instructional days negotiated pursuant to chapter 89, that shall include
one thousand eighty student instructional hours for both elementary and
secondary school grades.] maintain standard instructional periods by
implementing a bell schedule devised by the department under subsection (e).
(e) The department shall devise up to four standard bell schedules each for elementary, middle, and high schools. A school shall have the discretion to implement one of the available bell schedules. This section shall not apply to charter schools or multi-track public schools.
[(e)] (f) The board, in its
discretion, may grant a waiver to any individual school subject to the student
instructional hours, standard instructional periods, or one hundred
eighty day school year requirements in this section. The board shall adopt
policies and procedures to grant a waiver under this subsection.
[(f)] (g) For purposes of this
section, "student instructional hours" means [student]:
(1) Student learning time in
elementary schools during which students are engaged in learning activities,
including regularly-scheduled instruction, project-based learning
assignments, technology-assisted learning, and learning assessments within
the curriculum[, and does]; provided that "student instructional
hours" for elementary schools shall not include lunch, recess, [or
passing time.] pre- and post-school teacher time, planning time, or any
other time that is not instructional unless there is a related general learner
outcome attached to such time; and
(2) Student learning time in secondary schools during which students are engaged in learning activities, including regularly scheduled instruction, project-based learning assignments, technology-assisted learning, and learning assessments within the curriculum; provided that for the purposes of determining the adequacy of instructional time, "student instructional hours" may include:
(A) Presentations by persons other than teachers;
(B) Directed study;
(C) Time spent in homeroom; provided that this time shall account for no more than fifteen minutes a day;
(D) Student advisory time; provided that this time shall account for no more than forty-five minutes a week; and
(E) Statewide performance assessments;
provided further that "student instructional hours" for secondary schools shall not include time during which a student is at lunch; passing between classes; at recess; in non-directed study periods; in optional school programs, such as activity clubs, sports, and non-academic assemblies; pre- and post-school teacher time, planning time; or any other time that is not instructional unless there is a related general learner outcome attached to such time.
[(g)] (h) The department of
education, with the board of education and office of the governor, and in
consultation with representatives of the affected collective bargaining units,
shall submit to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the
convening of the regular sessions of 2013, 2014, and 2015, [2016,
2017, and 2018,] a report on its progress and efforts to meet the
requirements of subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d)."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
Instructional Time; Bell Schedules
Description:
Requires the Department of Education to devise four bell schedules each for elementary, middle, and high schools, except for charter schools and public multi-track schools. Repeals the general requirement that all public schools except charter schools and multi-track public schools include one thousand eighty student instructional hours for the 2016-2018 school years. (HB2007 HD1)
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