HB2352 SD2

Report Title:

DOE; Educational Officers; Salary Analysis

 

Description:

Requires the department of education to conduct a comprehensive comparative salary analysis of all personnel in management and administration, including educational officers. (SD2)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2352
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII		S.D. 2

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to education.

 

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

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the department of education has not fulfilled its duties as an employer to ensure that the educational officers who comprise the department's leadership are properly classified and compensated.

The department continues to report a labor shortage of educational officers and has taken the interim measure of temporarily assigning teachers who are not certified as administrators to serve as a significant portion of its vice-principal workforce. These actions illustrate that the department continues to take a reactive approach to addressing its needs, rather than developing and implementing a market-based recruitment and retention plan for educational officers.

The legislature further finds that the department has also failed to design a comprehensive leadership training program that identifies and tracks teachers as potential educational leaders, or allows vice-principals to develop leadership abilities through education in leadership theories and practices. Instead, the leadership training functions in the department have been disconnected into various programs that have no cohesiveness.

The legislature further finds that Act 188, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, required the department of education to conduct a study, in consultation with the University of Hawaii and the department of human resources development, to better assess positions, allocations, and classifications with respect to the salary structure of educational officers. However, to date, the legislature has not received the results of this study.

Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to require a task force of the primary stakeholders in the educational field, convened by the superintendent of education, to complete a comprehensive comparative salary analysis of all personnel in management and administration, including educational officers, as an overall organizational entity.

SECTION 2. (a) The superintendent of education shall convene a task force to conduct a comprehensive comparative salary analysis of all departmental personnel in management and administration, including educational officers, as an overall organizational entity; provided that this task force shall include but not be limited to the:

(1) Chair of the senate committee on education, or designee;

(2) Chair of the house of representatives committee on education, or designee;

(3) Chairman of the board of education, or designee;

(4) Superintendent of education, or designee;

(5) Director of human resource development, or designee;

(6) Executive director of the Hawaii government employees association, or designee; and

(7) Executive director of the Hawaii state teachers association, or designee.

(b) The superintendent of education shall provide a report of findings to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the regular session of 2003.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.