001good afternoon and welcome to the joint committee meeting of committee on education and committee on human services today is monday march 21st 3 o'clock p.m and we are in hearing room 229 this meeting including the audio and video of remote participants is being live streamed on youtube you will find links to viewing options for all senate meetings on the live and on demand video page of the legislature's website the zoom meeting and youtube live streaming event will include the three o'clock pm agenda and several other agendas for the committee on education and this one is also with the committee on human services and the unlikely event that we have to abruptly end this hearing due to major technical difficulties the committee will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business on wednesday march 23 2022 at 3
002o'clock p.m and a public notice will be posted on the legislature's website i'd like to take this time to remind our testifiers that due to time restrictions on our hearings we will be limiting testimony to one minute per testifier per bill 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 staff will mute you so that we can move this hearing along in an orderly and efficient manner thank you and for the committee on education to my right is my vice chair senator donna mercado kim and i'm not sure who is on video with us but should we not have members enough members to take the vote we will
003just roll everything to our last agenda we've got three or four today thank you for human services i have myself as chair senator san bernadino i have senator missalucia and i also have senator favela for human services and we do have four thank you we are hearing house bill 1999 hd1 relating to education this appropriate response to the department of human services for the preschool open door program to testify kathy betts director department of human services kathy please is kathy there anyone from department of human services if not her testimonies in support moving on sherry nakamura director testifying for hey coalition sherry please aloha chairs kidani and san buenaventura vice chairs kim and uh ihara and members of the committee my name is shari nakamura director of haye coalition a community hui providing a community
004voice for public education we support hp 1999 hd1 our coalition has mainly been focused on k-12 education but we know that quality early learning opportunities is critical for building a foundation for our k-12 system hawaii has a mixed delivery system which takes into consideration the differing needs and wants of our families and communities we are grateful for the preschool open door program which provides state support for economically struggling families we know that in addition to state funds with pod there are also federal and county subsidies available for families our hope is that our state is tracking the data for these different funding mechanisms so that we can optimize our state funds effectively thank you for this opportunity to testify thank you sherry next to testify vivian ito from early childhood action strategy vivian peace good
005afternoon chairs vice chairs and other committee members thank you for the opportunity to speak in support of hp 1999 preschool open doors is a critical subsidy program for supporting preschool age children's school readiness it provides access to early learning for low and moderate income children who may not otherwise qualify for general child care subsidies which require parents to be working or in school or training increased funding for pod is critical both to make up ground after a 60 funding cut last year that resulted in drastically lost capacity and a waiting list for services and to begin tackling the significant commitment the state has made via act 46 to expanding preschool opportunities for children we appreciate the legislature's support for early care and learning and urge you to pass this measure thank you for the opportunity
006to testify and please know i'm available for any questions thank you vivian next to testify kathleen algar hawaii children's action network speaks kathleen please uh good day cheer kadani and chairs and women tara and committee members catherine augur with h-cam speaks you have our testimony and strong support of this measure um preschool open doors is very important to our families that can't afford uh child care on their own and that also don't qualify for the federal child care subsidy program it's due to budget cuts in 2020 it's serving less children than it previously had um we know how important early education is to our youngest learners and so we urge you to um if not um uh restore the funding uh to expand the funding to also help meet the need um and the benchmarks
007that were set in act 46 thank you thank you kathleen members that's all the testifiers we have we do have written comments from department of budget and finance and testimony and support from executive office on early learning early learning board parents and children together kamehameha schools and two individuals members are there any questions of the testifiers any members from human services questions no we're ready okay members we both have quorum so we will be taking the vote um so um for house bill in 1999 house draft won the um committee on education chair votes aye oh i'm sorry i did that last time too okay we do have recommendations so um [Music] you might have to take over from this experience anyway house of bill 1999 house draft one the recommendation of the chair on
008the committee on education is to pass this bill with amendments defecting the date to july 1 2051 and that's only done so that the ways and means committee can figure out where it goes in the budget and how we can finance it so members if there's no questions post bill 1999 hd1 to pass with the amendment chair vote say house bill 1999 what's draft one um sharehold side vice chair of outside senator de la cruz excuse senator canoha excuse senator favela with the three members present two excuses recommendations adopted madam chair thank you thank you um for human services um we welcome senator cassio and same recommendation um senator missaluccia for the vote chair beautiful for committee on human services members we are voting on hb 19999 hd1 chair recommends password amendments chair votes i
009vice chair is excuse senator akasho hi senator misalucha vote say senator favela share with four members present and one excuse your recommendations adopted okay thank you very much good afternoon and welcome to the 3 10 p.m hearing of the joint committees on housing and education present today for the committee on housing we have myself we have senator moriwaki and we also have senator favela and senator rhodes for the committee on education we have myself my vice chair senator kim to my right and senator favela at the far end thank you okay we have one item on today's hearing and that is house bill 2345 hd1 relating to land it authorizes the acquisition of real property located in ewa beach on the island of oahu it appropriates funds to hhfdc to purchase the fee simple interest
010or acquire an interest in the real property located in ewa beach on the island of oahu to develop affordable housing with priority given to department of education classroom teachers in the beginning of their career our first testifier for this measure is hsta in support aloha laverne war speaking on behalf of also two week junior hsca president we support this bill however we do have a few amendments we would like to see the wording a reduction of waiver of school impact fees owed by the seller a lesser for any project of the developer be removed we believe developers should pay impact fees that schools are being impacted with and our second amendment is to include all educators to retain our teachers it's important that they have housing that's affordable besides just recruiting so recruiting and retaining
011our educators is key thank you so much for the opportunity to testify thank you very much our next testifier is department of budget finance with comments followed by hhfdc with comments followed by department of education in support hgea with comments and michael press in support is there anyone else wishing to testify on house bill 2345 hd1 okay it's not um members any questions or discussion senator favela yeah um this is a product of archival and i just want to add comments that um we all are for teacher housing and having the housing for availability and affordable but to my community i just wanted to share we're getting jammed up and buffs up by over development and lack of infrastructure and roads volamore elementary is on a track system since day one the land if this
012is the land we're talking about by houlomon elementary that was actually supposed to be first expansion of the school campus fixing egress and outdoors of the school and fixing the road from kearanui drive to renton road right now if you're talking about this this is the tmk we're talking about i don't know what a teacher is going to leave unless they really work in of a beach because key only drive in the morning elementary school is backed up past the iroquois point road so if we're going to pass this pleasure we're going to go forward i just want to make it a note that they have to make road improvement and infrastructure improvements and help the school expand going forward because it's great to build houses but we don't have enough schools to hold the
013kids so these teachers not gonna have children they're gonna have children so i'm just saying that would recommend the recommendations that we fix our infrastructure in this area because we're already overcrowded every elementary is almost on the track system and our high school is 3200 students so that would be my recommendation going forward um as i kind of support this bill uh thank you chair um i would like to call on mr tanaka so this tmk that we're talking about here is there infrastructure as as senator fabella is concerned about we're building more housing and there's not infrastructure what what what kind of assessment has been done of this tnk so if this is the tmk next to holo moa i'm sorry good afternoon uh kidani vice chairs along randy thank you department of education
014um if this is the tmk which is adjacent to holy mole it's a 12 acre parcel that we have had discussions at some point um i believe it's castle and cook that owns it uh what had it desires to transfer it over to the does because no attention because that school is a year-round school quite quite full so they had entertained the idea of us acquiring that property next door we also understand that the property next door was intended for park space i had lengthy discussions with the current principal and the drive way is access to pick up and drop off is is a problem so the intention was to acquire part of that for that purpose but you know the rapid rate of growth for that area is is huge uh we're our estimate
015is that we need three elementary schools two elementary schools through intermediate school and the high school and we're behind that we have already started planning for it but it's behind infrastructure is behind i have had numerous discussions with d.o.t ed sniffen who is acting on behalf of the ssa uh brought that that issue up and he's trying to work out that that roadway situation accessed in that area so it's it's a continuum of discussions it is a problem so is the 12 acres large enough to do the two and four or five schools with infrastructure and housing no that was just for housing yeah the schools are planned in different different areas yeah it's not concentrated so the 12 acres there's enough infrastructure for the affordable housing at some point we stepped back and sfa
016was taking the the lead on that um it still needs development so it's premature in a sense moving forward on this um what was your question again what was your question i couldn't hear my question oh yeah so is it premature to move forward i i would say no i think it needs to be all dynamic and concurrent because any delay is going to challenge us even further but considerations to infrastructure need to be so noted now okay thank you thank you thank you thank you i'm so randy the 12 acre parcel which is is it right next to the school right next to us so does the school need to be expanded if the other schools come online it'll relieve the pressure of that school so we'll we'll spread out the the students the
017other three elementary schools or two elementary schools that is part of the design to relieve the pressure on that school but you know we're talking three four maybe five years away so it is it more realistic to expand the school and just look at maybe one more elementary school if that's the case instead of trying to do two more complete schools um the multiplicity of options one is there are plans to go vertical think another two two stories so that school is carrying about 1200 students now and for an elementary school my understanding is the perfect place is about six to seven hundred kids and that school's running it's the last of our year-round schools was mililani yes about don and they went vertical um so back to your question does it make more sense
018to increase capacity there as the other ones come online i think that gives it part of the relief but not in its immediate form i think i think it's going to have to go year-round for at least another two years right but i'm just saying is if do we as as senator morwaki says premature for talk about uh housing for faculty when in fact the school may be in need of the expansion as far as and also the infrastructure and the entryway and roadway or whatever it is that is needed for classroom space there's always options to go to trailers it's not the perfect situation but it makes some degree of accommodations for the enrollment the turnaround points and some of that need to be worked through and that parcel i was just out there
019last week they've started on the green space construction there's about maybe an acre available that they haven't touched but i'm not part of that discussion that's a discussion that the ssa should be having with the landowner but then there's a question that senator fabella brought up that if you're going to put in x amount of of um housing there are there's going to be x amount of students more students and they're going to want to not go to another school they're going to want to be there so again i mean are we um not really looking at right-sizing all the submitting commitments prematurely your your questions are are very appropriate i don't have the answers for you i have parts for consideration but the rapid growth of that neighborhood is pretty substantial but part of
020the planning for that neighborhood and knowing the rapid rules was to include uh two additional elementary schools my recollection yes that has not yet happened and again um most campuses for elementary schools are at the 6 700 level i think what we have to look at is and what their needs are going to be at that point um yeah yeah you're absolutely correct and on the other hand too you have to remember that the school facility agency well that law was passed two years ago um you know the governor only last week or last month appointed the the executive director so technically nothing's you know moved so that's what the real issue is so you should know we we have contracts on the planning parts of some of those schools you put it perfectly the
021kids are not going to stay in elementary school forever they're moving up so we're going to have additional stress in that area on the upper grades campbell is the largest high school we've got in the state and that becomes more problematic as the kids graduate up we've got kapolei and campbell but they're all pretty pretty good-sized mililani is huge so i'm describing the problem i'm sorry but um that's what we face [Music] thank you okay i'm ready sorry can you go forward so can you um kind of give them a visual of where these elementary schools are projected to be built not in my community even though whole appeal is evil beach but it's going to be built in that community which already some of those kids from whole peeling is going to ever about
022three to four hundred kids and someone going to ever makai they're not even going to the middle school in honolulu so that's the reason why eliminate the sixth grade wing to alleviate that and they're still yet not going to take away hula more off of a track system because the schools that we're thinking about building is in the whole pili kapolei region it it's primarily on the what was called the ever plane in that general area but because of the home growth of the you know the construction in that area we hear numbers from 20 to 30 000 additional homes you know even if you put half a kid in that you're talking another 15 000 kids so thank you any further questions numbers thank you education yeah so so chair i i don't think
023we have any further questions um should we go into recess then yes okay we're going to recess and we'll come back for decision so the joint committees on housing and education are now back for decision making chairs having conferred the recommendation for the committee on housing will be to pass this measure with amendments in particular hhftc's recommendation for an appropriation for fiscal year 2023 will be a blank appropriation and we want to note in the committee report several of the concerns that have been raised in testimony of this hearing first hsta's concerns about the need for housing for teachers of all seniority levels and hgea's concerns about the need for housing for all government employees not just teachers well note the appropriation requests made by hhfdc for their fair market value appraisal report and the
024annual maintenance including landscaping and public safety we will also note senator favela's concerns about the lack of infrastructure including roadways senator pavellan did you want to elaborate on those concerns thank you i mean the bottom line is i mean i'm battling because i want the teachers and everyone to have housing care but the first thing um when i got in is we have too much trafficking of a beach um i had converse with the developer and we stressed this over the years gentry is leaving our community after the development of kerali and they were the extension was called kia nui extension can we drive extension they decided to go back and get a conditional use permit to change that status and then this is the deal that they're making now covering that big hole that
025was a big hole was for draining of the water filling that up now and making some kind of deal now because they have small homes they can build but i talked to ed too and i told ed that i cannot support teachers housing unless the connectivity is priority and right now it's not seem to be that it's going to be priority it's going to be in the notes going forward in the notes it will not be a priority unless the world connectivity is a priority and the expansion of the school having chance to have our classrooms this bill is kind of hard it's really hard for me on my decision even though i'm going to talk about the roads but to me we can make the roads but if it's not a priority it's just
026the suggestions in the notes um it's really hard for me to um to to even emphasize the needs of roads in my community it really is and i have a lot of teachers in my community too so i'm really really hard to explain that it is very emotional for me to prefer to come up with it because um i came here as you know because like i said i respect the chairs how hard you guys work on this thing so when i seen the beginning notes of what had in the earlier decision i didn't make any preparation because the thing was what you said in the beginning on on what you said in the earlier notes so um i cannot have the best things of both worlds i'm gonna have to um i cannot support
027the bill sure um not even in the notes i cannot so yeah i cannot thank you senator from bella we will note those concerns in the committee report as just stated and we also want to note in the committee report senator kim's concerns that you raised about does need to assess the elementary school needs and expansion of infrastructure in the community before moving forward with this project yeah but can that be put into the bill that provided that um the doe does a better job at assessing the needs of the school and the and the accessibility and and the egress can it be put in here on page one instead of putting it in like in the committee report it says here for the purpose of developing affordable housing facility development affordable housing with a
028party given to location department classes in the beginning of their subject to or provided that the doe facilities do a better assessment as to what the schools needed senator kim you're correct we can do that assessment uh on on the growth needs and part of our planning process to determine the size of the school and its location and approximately yes we do that on a recurring basis we do that for core village the new call rich the new one coming up we probably like to stay out of the discussion regarding how big the roads are and its traffic flow that's not what we do we would defer to department of transportation but we can't do the numbers on on the school's anticipated size and all of that yes can we do that yeah we can
029put that in the building thank you senator kim so if the doe is going to entertain that then i just again i'll refer to what i said earlier about the rules um i just want to put in the committee notes to the dot or whoever needs to make this road and this road complete and happy are not exactly for white roads i'm just expecting the thing to extend to to renton road we're not asking for wider roads egress and outdress for the school and extending the road to renton road that's not and that's not too much of asking but but senator kim had said and then randy had confirmed i'll change my vote to reservations so again to just be clear um one of the amendments in this bill that we will be making now
030is to for the doe to conduct the elementary school needs assessment as just discussed by senator kim okay and then the final note that we'll make in the committee report is that the entity making the determinations of about reductions and waivers of fees will be the dma doe and sma as the case may be sfa sorry sff [Music] okay um okay uh members any questions or discussion all right so we'll take the vote now for the committee on housing the recommendation for house bill 2345 one will be to pass this measure with amendments um chair boats eye vice chair vote side or voice chair both sides uh uh senator kanohoo excused [Music] your recommendation is adopted thank you very much thank you for the committee on education uh the same recommendation chair votes eye chair
031votes eye on house bill two three four five with amendments leicester votes eye center dela cruz excuse senator kanoha excuse senator favela reservations is voting on affirmative recommendations thank you thank you and there be no further business this hearing is adjourned we are now convening the committee on education 315 meeting we are here in room 229 today is monday march 21st and i'd like to take this time to remind testifiers that we have time restriction on our hearings limited to to a one minute testimony per testifier per bill thank you so first on the 3 15 pm agenda is um scr11 urging the department of education to include the teaching of financial literacy in the existing personal transition plan course requirement for each student to testify super interim executive interim superintendent ayashi please testimony in
032support of scr011 thank you for thank you terry um we also have that's the only person testifying in person we do have written testimony from five others all in support members any questions so terry did we pass something like this last year uh i believe we have a resolution so we have been working um yes i'm sorry i mean do we need this if we already have one but does this do something else i think the resolution was for this year um so we have we have been making progress on this area and so um we are uh committed to continuing that work okay so we need this resolution um we we will continue whether we have it or not so okay but we did pass one just like it yes it was very similar
033okay thank you okay moving on scr 23 sr17 requesting the department of education to expand transportation services in the pearl city school district you testify interim superintendent fifayashi please turkey donation randy tanaka office of facilities and operations as you know transportation has been a little bit of a challenge for us in the last two years but we stand on our testimony we have pulled and looked at the pearl city complex and and we find that the school that has a little bit of the challenges pearl city high school the rest of the schools we're making that accommodation um so we plan to adjust for those needs and work forward thank you uh we have no other testifiers you might as well stay there because i'm sure we have questions you have any questions so do
034we need this do we need this result i i think we need to monitor it for another year to see what as we walk out of code provided we have no challenges but right now we're making the accommodations for transportation what about all the other schools the all other schools are not meeting their maximum capacity of seats we are making that accommodation it's only pearl city high school that we have a little bit of a challenge but what about all the other schools around the island oh statewide our biggest problem area is in kona we are short about 75 to 100 drivers depending on what the day is like we are proposing we haven't completed our evaluation but it may require a different kind of compensation for that area because there's just not enough drivers
035our fear is that we start getting into a rape war with the other municipal um the ilion buses and those guys that kind of leads to nowhere we just get into a wage war so we're trying to develop more drivers well i'm just concerned when we introduce such specific resolutions per area that high impacts other areas and you know if you do it for one you're going to get for all and so um you know that's why i asked do we really need a result if that's something that can be dealt with with the legislator of the district to talk it over with the schools i would i would ask for to give us a period of time too and not because you hit it right on the hill thank you thank you thank you
036so much randy and the other thing i was going to ask is to talk about the the uh lack of drivers and we're not the only state that's having this but it impacts us most because we are an island state and we can't it's not like we can coerce companies from across the boundary in our state line to to come and drive for us so that's you know the bigger issue too um we have specific federal regulations when it comes to bus drivers has that been looked at as to whether or not we can ask the feds in periods of crises you know to how can it be relaxed we couldn't ask the military to provide the and they have bus drivers we couldn't ask the military we couldn't ask the tour drivers because they're
037not licensed for school buses so is there any way that we are looking at asking our congressional delegation to help us amend that in times of emergencies we have explored those options but the standard for school bus drivers is fairly rigid the other option we are looking at is the vans under 15 passengers do not require that cdl license to that degree allows us mobility costs us a little bit more because the carry potential but but we can service some of some of the more challenged areas the challenge with uh smaller vehicles like i said is carrying capacity and with today's rising fuel costs so it gets a little more expensive but all options are being considered we you write we talked to the national guard and we spoke to general hara and it was
038a challenge there tried to get him on municipal transportation we've done compensation for parents to carpool it's still just a lot of drivers thank you randy appreciate it moving on scr 28 sr 22 requesting the voe to establish programs and educational opportunities to increase media literacy and promote digital citizenship to testify interim superintendent hayashi things thank you and you have one individual who has also provided written testimony and support members questions moving on scr 43 sr 38 requesting the department of education to conduct an electrical assessment of public schools for purposes of heat abatement and air filtration upgrades testimony from interim superintendent please [Music] good afternoon turkey donny first year kim um sin in 2007 we started an electrical assessment statewide we're about 70 percent complete of all our electrical capacity uh and that has
039followed along with if we could accommodate some of the heat abatement issues that we would put in x amount of air conditioning units it's a school-based program so we do the assessment for the electrical carrying capacity and we work with the schools to get more ac up to that capacity and there's an ongoing process of upgrading the electrical systems the report is 1800 pages long it didn't get a chance to read it all last night but it is hbo no um so so that's kind of what so if you guys have already started one is this resolution not necessary then okay thank you thank you service questions moving on moving on sr 81 sr 74 urging the department of education to recognize and remedy statewide school transportation and equities by increasing and prioritizing school bus
040services for school children from low to moderate income families randy you're up again good afternoon i'm sure it's longer for you than it is for me but um we have more painful for you there is a we're looking at a process uh and really it starts with school lunch programs that are free and and transportation is free um we have reduced meal programs where transportation is free so the discussion we're having now as they are the most median don't actually have good access to transportation to school we're beginning to try level who gets how we do the application it's a little lengthy we have to start that process sooner but there could be some imbalance how come i can't get transportation if they can't take transportation so so you have already started yes you have
041this okay so this is not needed also thank you thank you do you know when you expect to finish it by the thing how much complete are you we're we're pretty close we um my transportation person uh suggested that we do a pilot in the second semester of the next few years of january thank you moving on scr 131 and sr 115 requesting department education to implement a filipino history culture and identify social studies course for high school students to justify interim superintendent please good afternoon again vice chair from the members of the committee my interim assistant we superintendent on a written testimony and we thankfully offer comments on scr131 thank you for the opportunity thank you um consume we have next amy abbayani and support is amy there hello amy oh thank you very
042much for hearing this resolution we believe it's very important and we're so grateful that this has been initiated by public and private high school students and i stand on my written testimony thank you very much for hearing this thank you amy next to testify patricia hollaball in support patricia yes hi thank you this is patricia halagow i'm a professor at the college of education um and i strongly support this resolution i represent the tnalic filipino education council and we strongly support this based on research and benefits of having a curriculum that represents our students um i also feel like our students have spent i've had the opportunity to work with the filipino curriculum project high school students and they're designing an actual curriculum that they want to learn and i've been impressed with that the
043work that they're doing and they've been working with teachers and many community members around this curriculum and so this is one that we feel that would add greatly to the curriculum in the department of education and represent the 23 percent of filipinos that represent the doe and so i hope that you will support the resolution that's been inspired by our public school students thank you thank you patricia next to testify caitlyn jane agnes it's caitlin here yes i'm here please please proceed hello okay hello i'm a recent graduate from kapolei high school and a member of the filipino curriculum project i'm a second generation immigrant and from the philippines and i grew up feeling a disconnection because i couldn't speak ilocano fluently or know much about the filipino history for this reason i felt law
044saying that i'm filipino-american i know a lot of people who are ashamed to say they are filipino and so i don't want future students to feel lost within their ethnic identity because they don't have that connection filipinos represent 25 of hawaii's population and we're one of the largest ethnic groups in the doe so it's important that we have more in-depth representation as a daily student after the representation in education is so important to provide space that students like me can learn about ourselves and help me feel proud about who i am we already receive a lot of support from the doe by connecting with various education leaders and we hope we can gain your support as well thank you thank you very much caitlin next to testify shannon crystal ball shannon there next to testify
045brianna agas thank you good afternoon chair kirani vice chair mercado kim and members of the committee my name is brianna kamatagas and i'm a graduate student at the university of hawaii at manoa i strongly support this resolution as a second generation ilokana and yonseiko say japanese at the university philippines students only comprise of 9.3 percent of total graduate and undergraduate students despite being one of the largest ethnic groups here in hawaii if we wish to see more university enrollment we must include filipino history and culture and high school courses to allow for students to see their own communities heritage and ancestors be represented for our youth to know themselves they must first learn their histories and in doing so students can feel a sense of belonging and want to contribute to the greater community of
046hawaii please refer to my written testimony for more detail but thank you so much for the opportunity to testify your time and consideration thank you brianna next to testify elisa espinosa is the lisa there present chair elisa not present okay moving on marissa hella go hi hello my name is marissa and i'm a junior at punahou school and i'm a member of the filipino curriculum project our curriculum project is a student-driven public private school collaboration of filipino students we are creating a curriculum about filipino history culture and identity and are submitting a course proposal to the doe we are made up of 11 student collaborators and we all submitted written testimony about why having more filipino representation in school is important to us we are aware that there are some opportunities to learn about filipino
047history in school but we feel like it is not enough we want a focused course one that can go in depth and further empower filipino students our curriculum is made up of three units historical contexts culture and connections and filipinos in hawaii with an overarching theme of identity the curriculum is geared towards filipinos and non-filipinos that hopefully inspires others to embrace their ethnic identities and helps us feel seen in education we've already received a lot of support from the doe but we hope that we can gain your support as well thank you thank you marissa next to testify lauren watarita is lauren there going once going twice that is the last of our um zoom testimonies we have another like uh 19 or so testimonies in support of this measure members any questions of the
048testifiers question for d.o.e please so terry in your testimony he says that um there are many opportunities existing to study filipino history and culture and benchmarks so um you've heard like the testimonies do you feel that that doe is already covering this or um i think not to the extent that this group um is proposing to do and we we don't disagree at all with um you know what they're saying we think every ethnic group you know should um be able to have as much opportunity to learn about their heritage cultures we do have mechanisms in our department that can allow for the development of these opportunities and we've had some preliminary conversations and we are you know happy to continue to work together to um to find ways to um provide extended opportunities so
049how is this um correlates with the hawaiian culture what is being taught about hawaiian i think um well right now um because we are state a dual language state right so we do have some um content in in fourth grade that our students need to learn that's required as well as seventh grade and then when we go into high school we have the modern history of modern hawaiian history course um so in that sense you know there's no specific courses in i guess um that match that for the filipino culture nor for the other large ethnic groups in our state however you know asian studies is a course that is available as an elective and as well as ethnic studies and well i certainly agree with the testifiers and of course i am also part
050filipino but i'm also quite korean and you know and of course there's a large population of japanese so i just want to make sure because i try to be consistent what we do for one we should be doing for all and i hate if we're going to start to segregate as to you know which community gets a separate kind of curriculum at the schools um so i hope that we can get a well-rounded type of of education for all of the ethnic groups no matter what size they are um represented within the doe and especially the host culture yes i i agree totally with you that um that holistic perspective is very important which is covered in the asian studies and the ethnic studies okay thank you thank you thank you terry thank you for
051the question thank you senator kim but the reason why it's is great that what she had brought up and i will give you this um it's great majority of these um ethnic um backgrounds most of them can speak their language the only one that is lack of speaking their language and knowing their ethnicity is the hawaiian group i know you're teaching them in fourth grade intermediate and high school but again that was part of um hawaiian is a second language but first language english is a second language but again this is great i listen to these kids i think it to myself man when i was in high school i should have brought this up because that's one of the biggest things in high school today local kids who have part online is losing their
052identity their culture and where they're being at home you know speak hawaiian they barely barely know anything about hawaii and sad part of them give you guys this you guys don't think that it's kind of out of the question so learning your culture is really important in doing but you know hawaiian based school like nanakuli these kids barely know what is called big and my sister-in-law that teaches in the school took the ukuleles off the shelf told them we're going to play one song from israel kamakov only half of the students in the west side they didn't know who israel kamaka vivo is you see what i mean so our identity slowly is being lost and i come in these filipino kids and this curriculum coming up because guess what they just gave me an
053idea and i love that idea so thank you and i commend you guys for doing this but it's an idea that we need to do like senator kim said well wrong yes and thank you so much and um you know when you have some time we'd love to share some of our efforts with our world languages and our multilingualism so students are able to earn a seal of by literacy for their home languages and we have continued to add more languages that are not common across our nation to that list because we are so fortunate to live in our state and you know we honor the identity of all our students because that is really the core right of developing our future citizens so thank you so much thank you thank you very much thank
054you thank you terry all right moving on [Music] scr 171 and sr 163 urging the department of education and state public charter school commission to prioritize the hiring of dedicated staff to manage federal school meal programs to testify and term superintendent randy please share vice prayer i will be brief for the sake of brevity um we we manage the federal programs at the state level and primarily it's to do with compliance we have just in the last two weeks launched an effort to pay closer attention and apply for more federal grants so we'll be reaching a little deeper in the funding side of the game but we manage it at the state state level of compliance primarily [Music] next scr 216 sr 209 requesting the department of education to assess and report to the legislature
055whether and to what extent existing curriculum and training align with aaron's law insurance written testimony in support of scr 216 thank you for the opportunity to testify thank you terry next judith clark executive director for hawaii youth services network judith please [Music] you're on mute judith okay can you hear me now yes okay thank you i'm judith clark testifying on behalf of hawaii youth services network we are in support of this uh this resolution when i was in the fourth grade our school bus driver sexually abused me and five other girls in my fourth grade class the abuse went on daily for over a month because none of us had received any education on sexual abuse prevention other than beware of strangers we did not recognize it as abuse we did not know how to
056report it to a trusted adult and if we had received that kind of education we would have recognized it would have stopped at the first child instead of six this is why we need this kind of education in our schools from grades k through 12. thank you for this opportunity to testify thank you judith um that concludes the testimony there is a testimonial support from ryan kusumoto written testimony moving on scr 217 sr 210 requesting the early learning board to prepare a report containing a roadmap including proposed legislation for the implementation of act 46 session laws of hawaii 2020 to testify colleen momohara interim executive director for executive office on early learning aloha chair vice chair and committee members my name is jordina ferrer with the executive office on early learning here on behalf of
057interim director colleen omahara we stand on our written testimony in support and defer to the early learning board happy to answer any questions you may have thank you what was your name again please jordana thank you next to testify vivian ito early childhood action strategy good afternoon chair vice chair and other committee members early childhood action strategy stands on our written testimony in support of scr 217 and sr210 thank you for the opportunity to testify please know i'm available for any questions thank you vivian kathleen algar hawaii children's action network speaks casting there provided comments michael connie chief executive officer hawaii community foundation aloha chair of vice chair committee members tell the whole hawaii community foundation on behalf of our ceo michael kindly will stand on our written testimony to support this resolution and just
058highlighting this is an important next step uh in furthering this efforts that were started by act 46 in 2020 so look forward to moving forward with this thank you chair thank you todd robert peters early learning board robert peters early learning board provided comments eileen omahara executive office in early learning sorry that concludes the testimony any questions members thank you moving on to the final one scr 226 and sr 219 requesting the department of education to implement a civil rights curriculum plan for public school students to testify interim superintendent good afternoon [Music] chair for hawaii civil rights commission is william hoshido testifying on her behalf testimony and support members questions if not can we call a recess we're reconvening the 3 15 p.m comedian education agenda and we are now deliberating on the issues before
059us for fcr 11 recommendation of the chair is to defer for scr 23 sr 17 recommendation of the chair is to defer for scr 28 and sr 22 recommendation of the chair is to pass as is chair votes eye okay scr 28 sr 22 recommendation is to pass as this chair both sides vice verbal advice senator dela cruz is he still excused okay senator kanoha excuse senator favela on three members president two members excuse recommendations of doctor scr 43 and sr 38 the department has noted that they are already doing an assessment so we will prefer this one also scr 81 sr 74 again the department is already working on this so we will be for this one also scr131 and sr115 [Music] recommendation is to pass with amendments amending this resolution to require the
060doe to develop rather than implement a new curriculum and there are technical and non-substantive amendments chair boats eye recommendation um manager can i just put a note in the community report that we hope that the department is looking at all of the culture especially the host culture as well yes thank you thank you okay scr 31 and sr 115 recommendation is to pass with amendments uh any member voting no any member voting reservations at this president hearing none three members president two members excuse recommendations thank you next for scr 171 sr 163 recommendation is to pass as is chair bonsai the cr 171 sr 163 pass as is correct that's unamended any member of hollywood reservation any members voting in opposition hearing none three members present all voting eyes recommendations adopted thank you for scr
061216 sr 209 recommendation of the chair is to pass as is shareholder the recommendation is to pass as cr 216 sr 209 uh unamended any vote members voting with reservations or any members voting in opposition hearing none three members present voting i recommendations adopted for scr 217 sr 210 recommendation of the chair is to pass with amendments that are technical and non-substantive in nature chair votes i okay recommendation scr 217 and sr 210 pass with amendments any members voting no any members voting with reservations hearing none recommendations adopted thank you and for the final one scr 226 sr 219 recommendation of the chair is to pass as is cheerful's eye sr219 scr 226 recommendation pass unamended any no holds any reservation votes hearing none three members present voting i to members excuse the commission's adopted
062thank you okay members we had a deferred decision making so let's go into this one for a few minutes this is from our [Music] we have this meeting last friday the 18th and this was regarding house bill 1562 hd1 relearning relating to the early learning board the recommendation of the chair is to pass with amendments and to defect the date to july 1 2051. chair votes eye okay recognition is passed with amendments hb one five six two yeah one five six two hd one hd one um any members voting in the negative any members with reservations hearing none three members present two members excuse recommendations and adopted final one is house bill hd1 the recommendation of the chair is going to be to pass with amendments the amendments include in section two restoring the exemption
063from 302 a also noting the testimony from the doe will we will be reverting lines 7 and 8 on page 5 back to the original statutory language the third amendment is to is the recommendation of the attorney general we will eliminate the amendments on page six lines twelve through eighteen next amendment on page 8 we will be amending to clarify that the commission may consult with the board in adjustments to allocations next amendment we're going to add a part 2 to this bill with the blank appropriation for charter school facility funding using the language as noted in house bill 1565 section three and including a provision that eligible charter schools shall have a lease agreement that has been reviewed and approved by the attorney general and lastly there are some technical and non-substantive amendments this
064question if not house bill 1865 hd one recommendation is to pass with amendments chair votes eye passing with amendments hb 1865 house drops one any member voting in the negative any members voting reservations there are none two members absent in two members excuse two members voting affirmative recommendations adopted thank you thank you members for uh hanging in with this very very long agendas