001[Music] good afternoon welcome to the committee on education today is Monday February 12th 2024 it is 3:00 p.m. and we are in hearing room 229 this meeting including the audio and video of remote participants is being streamed live on YouTube you will find links to viewing options for all Senate meetings on the live and On Demand video page of the legislator's website this Zoom meeting and YouTube live stream event will include the 3:00 p.m. agenda for the committee on education in the unlikely event that we must abruptly end this hearing due to Major technical difficulties the committee will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business on Wednesday February 14th 2024 at 3:00 p.m. in this room 229 any public notice will be posted on the legislature's website I'd like to take this time to remind our
002testifiers that due to time restrictions on our hearings we will be limiting testimony to 1 minute per testifier per bill for P for people participating remotely please remain muted and video disabled until shortly before it is your turn to testify when I call your name unmute yourself and your time will begin after your minute is completed Steph will mute you so that we can move this hearing along in an orderly and efficient manner thank you Senator Richards for joining us and thank you Senator Kim for joining us we will begin with Senate Bill 2257 sd1 relating to education authorizes the Hawaii teacher Standards Board to consider qualified individuals with at least an associates degree or high school diploma with comparable education and coursework Industry experience and content expertise to teach Career and Technical education let
003see we don't have anyone to okay the purpose of this hearing is to receive public testimony for Senate Bill 2257 following the February 7th 2024 edu hearing which inserted substantive Provisions into the short form Bill to correct technical issues regarding the measures title to testify we have superintendent Keith Hayashi good afternoon chair Vice chair and members of the committee Sean bacon speaking on behalf of the Department of Education we stand on a written testimony and strong support and are available to answer any questions thank you thank you Sean MIT my teacher standard board good afternoon mahiga speaking on behalf of the Hawaii teacher Standards Board um it's nice to be on this committee chair Tani and vice chair Donna Mado Kim and other committee members would stand in support of this bill SB 2257 sd1
004we're trying to expand our CTE programs within our schools and we want to support our teachers who educate our students in CTE and we also realize that we need as a board they need flexibility for some of the CTE line to understand that they may not have an AA degree but they may have industry experience or other comparable technical school that would suffice so they want them to be able to have the flexibility to make that decision and determination at the Hawaii teacher Standards Board thank you thank you Mitsy we also have written testimony and support from Senator oops from executive director Steven Shotz of Hawaii P20 partnership for education members are there any questions for our test follows if not I'd like to go ahead and take the V on thisi very good again
005recomendation well the recommendation is to support no we don't have oh okay we're defecting the date to July 1st okay that's with amendments Senate Bill 2257 pass with amendments shair Ro's ey Vice chair I sen house is excuse Senator Richard Senator I four members present one excuse recommendations ad thank you okay going to reset thank you Rec convening committee on education members we have one more item and this is for decision decision making only for Senate Bill 2052 relating to Civic Civic engagement requires a public access room to establish and maintain an Outreach and engagement program for primary secondary and postsecondary and Community Education requires the Department of Education and University of fa to assign appropriate staff to coordinate with the public access room for the Outreach and engagement program establishes two full-time equivalent permanent
006Civ public education resource future positions appropriates funds to the legislative reference Bureau for one full-time equivalent position to assist in in effectuating this requirement appropriates funds to the to the Department of Education for the expansion of civic education in the public schools members questions M chair I thought we had some concerns about the fact that they don't have space and they have no to manage a program like that did we not talk to them regarding that issue [Music] recess live in five 4 3 2 one reconvening the committee on education we are here for decision making on Senate Bill 2052 relating to to Civic engagement um the recommendation of the chair is to pass with amendments the Amendments will be to delete section three and all references to postsecondary and the University of Hawaii throughout
007this measure and defecting the date to July 1st 205 members questions comments I just wanted to comment explain my vote Madam chair I know at the last hearing when we heard this measure there are concerns raised by par uh regarding their U AB to have space to host this as well as uh the time and the the personnel and I know the measure appropriates positions which is concerning as well since I'm not sure if this is a priority trust me I support Civics but I think that should be taught at the schools and not here in a small little room or some conference room when they're able to get their hands on at this point I don't know that it's been really thought out so at this point um I'm not going to be able
008to support this measure so thank you madam chair other comments members if not the recommendation is to hang sorry so forther comments members recommendation is to pass Senate Bill 2052 with amendments the chair votes I the vice chair votes n hasimoto Senor hasimoto is excuse Senator Richards I with reservations okay and Senator faella no okay so that's to to not adop measure fails this is the only one we had that's that concludes the hearing for Education sor