THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2017
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Senator Michelle N. Kidani, Chair |
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Senator Kaiali‘i Kahele, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF HEARING
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DATE: |
Monday, February 13, 2017 |
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2:45pm |
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Conference Room Rm 229 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
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RELATING TO SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING. Requires the department of education to provide training on social and emotional learning to all youth-serving educators, health care professionals and counselors, and agencies and programs, as well as parents of students enrolled in public schools or public charter schools. Appropriates funds to the department of education to conduct training on social and emotional learning.
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Allows the department of education to offer voluntary training for teachers and educational officers on sex trafficking prevention. Requires the department to provide explanatory information about sex trafficking prevention and response to teachers and educational officers.
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EDU, WAM/JDL |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Allows for several factors to be weighted for the weighted student formula including but not limited to student characteristics, enrollment trends, and optimal student-teacher ratios. Requires the committee on weights to incorporate into the weighted student formula weights that account for special education teachers and support staff, enrollment increases, and the optimal student-teacher ratio at each grade level.
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires remote schools to be allocated funds using categorical allotments, rather than through the weighted student formula. Defines a remote school as any public school that is a high school located at least a one-hour drive away from the next nearest high school or a high school located on the island of Lanai, Molokai, or Niihau.
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires remote schools to be allocated funds using categorical allotments, rather than through the weighted student formula. Defines a remote school as any public school that is a high school located at least a one-hour drive away from the next nearest high school or a high school located on the island of Lana‘i, Moloka‘i, or Ni‘ihau. Specifies minimum number of teachers for Hana high and elementary school.
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the Department of Education to develop a program to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction to students as part of the high school health or physical education curriculum.
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH SERVICES. Formally establishes the Hawaii keiki: healthy and ready to learn program within the department of education. Establishes a special fund and appropriates $4,000,000 to expand and sustain the program.
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EDU, CPH/WAM |
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RELATING TO THE PER-PUPIL FUNDING SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS. Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study on the non-facility general fund per-pupil funding system for public charter schools, to determine whether the system fulfills its statutory purpose of equalizing operational funding among the State's public schools.
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EDU, WAM |
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Decision Making to follow, if time permits.
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FOR AMENDED NOTICES: Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored. If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.
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_____________________________________ Senator Michelle N. Kidani Chair |
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