Report Title:

UH; Teacher Education Program

Description:

Appropriates funds for faculty positions at the college of education of the University of Hawaii.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2057

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO TEACHER EDUCATION.

 

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

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the University of Hawaii lacks the faculty and other resources necessary to produce enough teachers for the public schools of Hawaii. While the department of education hires over one thousand three hundred new teachers each year, the college of education at Manoa and the education department at Hilo are able to prepare only four hundred to four hundred fifty teachers each year. The legislature further finds that permanent funds are needed to replace temporary sources of funding for positions in special education in order to maintain current levels of productivity in special education. Furthermore, the legislature finds that there is a shortage of school principals, necessitating additional faculty in the area of educational administration.

The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds for faculty positions at the University of Hawaii's college of education.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $1,400,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2004-2005, for the college of education at the University of Hawaii to fund twenty-three full-time equivalent faculty positions; provided that seven (7.0) full-time equivalent positions shall be for special education and that one (1.0) full-time equivalent position shall be for educational administration.

SECTION 3. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the University of Hawaii for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2004.

INTRODUCED BY:

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