STAND. COM. REP. NO.  776-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2007

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2007, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INSTRUCTIONAL TIME,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to help ensure that students receive quality instructional time by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the Department of Education to devise up to four standard bell schedules for elementary, middle, and high schools and allowing individual schools the discretion to implement one of the available schedules;

 

     (2)  Clarifying the definition of "student instructional hours"; and

 

     (3)  Repealing the general requirement that all public schools except charter schools and multi-track public schools include 1,080 student instructional hours.

 

     The Department of Education supported this bill.  The Hawaii State Teachers Association and a concerned individual opposed this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2007, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair