Report Title:

Charter Schools; DOE; Exceptional Children

Description:

Allows the BOE, without regard to the limits on the number of new century charter schools and new century conversion charter schools that may be established, to issue one charter per school complex to a new century charter school and a new century conversion charter school established for exceptional children.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2194

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to charter schools.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 302A-1182, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) Up to a total of twenty-three schools may be established as new century charter schools[.]; provided that the board of education, without regard to the foregoing limit on the number of new century charter schools, may issue one charter per school complex to a school established for exceptional children. [These new] New century charter schools may be established by:

(1) The creation of a new school; or

(2) The creation of a new school, comprising programs or sections of existing public school populations and using existing public school facilities, pursuant to subsection (b)."

SECTION 2. Section 302A-1191, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (e) to read as follows:

"(e) Up to a total of twenty-five schools may be established as new century conversion charter schools[.]; provided that the board of education, without regard to the foregoing limit on the number of new century conversion charter schools, may issue one charter per school complex to a school established for exceptional children.

Any new century conversion charter school [may], prior to the beginning of the school year, may enter into an annual contract with the department of education for centralized services to be provided by the department."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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