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HI SB2535
Bill
AI Summary
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Requires the Board of Education to develop multiple bell schedules for elementary, middle, and high schools, allowing individual schools discretion to implement one available schedule for each grade level.
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Clarifies the definition of "student instructional hours" in state education law.
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Establishes that public secondary schools (except charter schools and multi-track public schools) must include 990 student instructional hours beginning with the 2014-2015 school year and in subsequent years.
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Repeals the general requirement that all public schools include 1,080 student instructional hours for the 2016-2018 school years.
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Requires the Board of Education to consider additional specified factors affecting scheduling requirements when developing the required bell schedules.
Legislative Description
Instructional Time; Bell Schedules
Last Action
(H) Failed to pass Third Reading with 19 Ayes, representative Awana voting aye with reservations; 32 Noes Rep.(s) Representative(s) Aquino, Brower, Carroll, Chang, Ching, Choy, Cullen, Fontaine, Giugni, Hanohano, Har, Hashem, Ichiyama, Johanson, Kawakami, Keith-Agaran, C. Lee, M. Lee, Luke, Manahan, Marumoto, McKelvey, Morikawa, Nakashima, Pine, Riviere, Takai, Thielen, Tokioka, Ward, Wooley, Yamane; and 0 Excused.
4/10/2012