RELATING TO REALLOCATION OF VACANT LIBRARY POSITIONS.

Makes permanent the authority of the State Librarian to administratively reallocate vacant positions and establish temporary positions.

relating to the department of education.

Permits the department of education to pass on the cost of implementing and administering annuity contracts to the employees.

relating to the salary structure of educational officers in the department of education.

Requires the BOE, before 7/1/2002, to adopt a classification and compensation structure for educational officers that more accurately reflects the level of work being performed.

relating to school administrators.

Provides incentives to keep exemplary principals and vice-principals (VPs) at the school level; encourage exemplary principals and VPs to accept long-term assignments to hard-to-staff schools, special needs schools, and schools with high teacher turnover; encourage exemplary teachers to become VPs.

RELATING TO MASTER TEACHERS.

Establishes training and incentive program for master teachers.

relating to EDUCATION.

Requires the department of education to establish a teacher mentoring program. Maximizes amount of certified teachers. Allows for mandatory ongoing professional development during the school day or calendar. Allows the superintendent to waive licensing requirements in the case of teacher shortages and exempts these hires from the penalties imposed by chapter 302A-603.

relating to DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PERSONNEL.

Allows the DOE to hire former teachers, principals, or vice principals who have retired from state service for hard-to-fill positions, allowing them to continue to receive retirement benefits, but not accrue additional retirement benefits based on post-retirement employment.

relating to education.

Requires DOE to institute open recruitment policy for designated positions and develop career development and training program for those positions.

relating to EDUCation.

Establishes a separate bargaining unit under the State's collective bargaining law for educational officers by removing from bargaining Unit 6, other DOE personnel on the same salary schedule. Places employees displaced from Unit 6 into a new bargaining Unit 14.

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Specifies programs that qualify for workers' compensation coverage for students engaged in work-based learning experiences.

RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL ACOUNTABILITY.

Implements an incentive system to provide awards for schools that demonstrate growth as well as interventions and sanctions for underperforming schools.

RELATING TO NEW CENTURY CHARTER SCHOOLS.

Transfers the authority to determine the allocation methodology and level of funding for new century charter schools from the State Auditor to the Superintendent.

relating to schools-within-schools.

Allows moneys in the incentive and innovation grant trust fund to be used for the planning and design of proposed schools-within-schools, and the establishment of board-approved schools-within-schools. Appropriates funds to the incentive and innovation grant trust fund for these purposes.

making an appropriation for the peer education program.

Appropriates funds to maintain and expand the services provided by the department of education's peer education program.

relating to substance abuse schools.

Requires Department of Education to establish separate schools for students suffering from substance abuse.

relating to school-to-work.

Amends powers of School To Work Executive Council; administratively places Council within the Department of Education; reinstates the Director of Human Services on the Council and removes the Director of Human Resources Development; and appropriates unspecified funds for the Council.

RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX.

Exempts from the general excise tax fundraising amounts raised by certain nonprofit groups for public school projects as long as the funds are used to supplement the cost for public school programs and the board accepts the donations.

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Excludes the first $20,000 of income of public school teachers from state income tax.

RELATING TO TEACHERS.

Provides a tax credit to teachers based on experience.

relating to principals and vice-principals.

Replaces teaching requirement for principal/vice-principals with requirement for school-level experience to be determined by department; provides for waiver of certification and school-level experience for vice-principals with appropriate administrative experience.

Relating to coaches.

Requires coaches coaching for the DOE to be paid on a stipend basis. Requires coaches receive stipend increases commensurate to those collectively bargained for teachers. Appropriates funds to increase the base stipends of coaches who are employed by the DOE in other capacities by one hundred per cent and coaches who are not employed by the DOE in other capacities by fifty per cent.

RELATING TO HAWAII NATIONAL GUARD TUITION ASSISTANCE.

Eliminates the requirement that only Hawaii national guard members who are residents of the State are eligible for tuition assistance.

relating to procurement.

Authorizes the superintendent to adopt rules for bulk purchasing for public schools for amounts of less than $50,000.

RELATING TO LIBRARIES.

Transfers Friends of the Library of Hawaii contracts and oversight from the BOE to the state librarian; adds Friends of the Library of Hawaii to the Hawaii state library foundation trust fund; requires the fund keep moneys from the two sources separate.

relating to the board of education.

Requires the board of education to invite the military representative to participate in discussions about board matters, except those matters discussed in executive meeting.

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Senator Bob Nakata

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Senator Norman Sakamoto

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Senator Cal Kawamoto