Hawaii 2022 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB3097 Compare Versions

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1	1	THE SENATE S.B. NO. 3097 THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022 STATE OF HAWAII A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
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3	3	THE SENATE S.B. NO. 3097
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13	13	THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022
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31	31	A BILL FOR AN ACT
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37	37	RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS.
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43	43	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
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47	47	SECTION 1. The legislature finds that professional development for teachers is a vital way to ensure our teachers can use the best, research-based educational practices within their classrooms. To provide our students with the best education possible, our teachers must be provided with the opportunity to receive adequate training. In particular, job‑embedded professional development can often prove to be more effective than stand-alone training sessions. In the collectively-bargained agreement between the Hawaii State Board of Education and the Hawaii State Teachers Association that expired on June 30, 2021, there was a memorandum of understanding that allowed for twenty-one additional hours to be added to the teachers' workday without students. Those twenty-one hours were to be used for job‑embedded professional development to provide benefits, including a formalized structure for organizing training and learning time, reducing the need for substitute teachers, and eliminating teacher absences from classes for training. However, the memorandum of understanding expired on June 30, 2021, and because funding was not available, the memorandum of understanding was not renewed. The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds for fiscal year 2022-2023 for twenty-one additional hours of professional development for teachers to replace the professional development hours that were lost when the memorandum of understanding expired without renewal. SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $16,600,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2022-2023 for twenty-one hours of professional development for teachers. The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of education. SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. INTRODUCED BY: _____________________________ BY REQUEST
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49	49	SECTION 1. The legislature finds that professional development for teachers is a vital way to ensure our teachers can use the best, research-based educational practices within their classrooms. To provide our students with the best education possible, our teachers must be provided with the opportunity to receive adequate training. In particular, job‑embedded professional development can often prove to be more effective than stand-alone training sessions.
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51	51	In the collectively-bargained agreement between the Hawaii State Board of Education and the Hawaii State Teachers Association that expired on June 30, 2021, there was a memorandum of understanding that allowed for twenty-one additional hours to be added to the teachers' workday without students. Those twenty-one hours were to be used for job‑embedded professional development to provide benefits, including a formalized structure for organizing training and learning time, reducing the need for substitute teachers, and eliminating teacher absences from classes for training. However, the memorandum of understanding expired on June 30, 2021, and because funding was not available, the memorandum of understanding was not renewed.
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53	53	The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds for fiscal year 2022-2023 for twenty-one additional hours of professional development for teachers to replace the professional development hours that were lost when the memorandum of understanding expired without renewal.
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55	55	SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $16,600,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2022-2023 for twenty-one hours of professional development for teachers.
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57	57	The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of education.
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59	59	SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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63	63	INTRODUCED BY: _____________________________
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76	76	Report Title: Department of Education; Professional Development; Teachers Description: Provides an appropriation for the department of education to provide twenty-one additional hours of professional development for teachers. The summary description of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
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84	84	Department of Education; Professional Development; Teachers
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90	90	Provides an appropriation for the department of education to provide twenty-one additional hours of professional development for teachers.
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98	98	The summary description of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.