STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1172

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1346

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 1346, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEACHERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

(1)  Align the Department of Education's (Department) probationary requirements for incoming teachers by amending the probationary period required of licensed charter school teachers, who are not yet tenured in the Department, upon entering or returning to the Department; and

 

(2)  Require that tenured Department licensed teachers who transfer to charter schools be subject to the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.  

 

     The Department of Education and Hawaii Public Charter Schools Network supported this measure.  The State Public Charter School Commission and Hawaii State Teachers Association commented on this measure.


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1346, H.D. 1, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

 

 

 

 

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair