HB2392

Report Title:

National Board Certification for DOE Teachers

Description:

Defines the term "national board" to mean the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards or the National Council on Teacher Quality, for the purposes of applying for national board teacher certification and funding national teacher board certification activities conducted by the State.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2392
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to national board certification for department of education teachers.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 302A-702, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§302A-702[]] Candidates for certification. (a) There is created in the department, a national board certification support program to provide assistance to any teacher in a public school who becomes a candidate for national board certification.

(b) The Hawaii teacher standards board shall develop, implement, and administer the program.

(c) For the purposes of this section, "national board" means the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards or the National Council on Teacher Quality."

SECTION 2. Act 314, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, is amended by amending section 4 to read as follows:

"SECTION 4. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $75,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002, and the sum of $115,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003, to establish a national board certification candidate support program for public school teachers to be implemented and administered by the Hawaii teacher standards board. The national board certification candidate support program shall provide candidate support by establishing release days, providing facilitator and trainer stipends, training materials, and payment of transportation expenses to enable neighbor island candidates to attend candidate support sessions and assessment center exercises on Oahu.

For the purposes of this section, "national board" means the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards or the National Council on Teacher Quality.

The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2002.

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