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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014 |
H.D. 1 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO EDUCATION.
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]
noninstructional 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]
including 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]
including nine hundred fifteen student instructional hours.
(c) Notwithstanding any other law to the
contrary, [for] beginning with the [2014-2016] 2014-2015
school [years,] year, all public secondary schools, excluding
charter schools and multi-track public schools, shall implement a school year [that
includes] including nine hundred ninety student instructional hours.
[(d) Notwithstanding any other law to the
contrary, for the 2016-2018 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, that shall include
one thousand eighty student instructional hours for both elementary and
secondary school grades.
(e)] (d) The board, in its
discretion, may grant a waiver to any individual school subject to the student
instructional hours 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)] (e) For purposes of this
section, "student instructional hours" [means student learning
time during which students are engaged in learning activities including
regularly-scheduled instruction and learning assessments within the curriculum,
and does not include lunch, recess, or passing time.] shall be defined
by the board.
[(g)] (f) 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), and (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 on July 1, 2030.
Report Title:
Department of Education; Student Instructional Hours
Description:
Requires all public secondary schools to implement a school year that includes nine hundred ninety student instructional hours beginning with the 2014-2015 school year. Repeals the requirement that by the 2016-2018 school years, all public schools implement a school year of one hundred eighty days, including one thousand eighty student instructional hours for both elementary and secondary school grades. Allows board of education to define "student instructional hours." Effective July 1, 2030. (HB1675 HD1)
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