Report Title:

Comprehensive Student Support System, Appropriation

 

Description:

Appropriates $ for positions in the comprehensive school support system.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

783

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL SUPPORT PROGRAM.

 

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

SECTION 1. The comprehensive student support system is the department of education’s construct for ensuring a continuum of supports and services that provide the social, emotional, and physical environments to help all students learn and meet high educational standards. This continuum begins in the inclusive classroom, with differentiated classroom practices as the base of support for each student. This support extends beyond the classroom to include school and community resources, initiatives, and programs as well as appropriate services procured from private providers.

The comprehensive student support system operates in all school settings, linking students and families to the resources of their neighborhood, their community, the department of education, the department of health, and other governmental and private agencies and groups.

The focus of the comprehensive student support system is on prevention and early intervention, and provides students, families, teachers, principals, and others with the support they need to ensure that students succeed. The comprehensive student support system ensures that schools have the procedures and ability to respond to a broad range of student needs. The supports and formality of the service delivery process match the severity, complexity, and frequency of the student’s needs. When school-based supports are provided in a timely and effective manner, fewer students will require more complex or intense services.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $   , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002, for additional staff for the comprehensive student support system in schools that service low-income areas.

SECTION 3. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001.

INTRODUCED BY:

_____________________________