001good afternoon and welcome to the committee on education today is wednesday february 3rd 3 o'clock p.m and we are in room conference room 229 for hearing uh agenda of seven bills 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 legislature's website this zoo meeting and youtube live stream event will include the three o'clock agenda for the committee on education in 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 friday february 5th at 3 o'clock p.m and a public notice will be posted on the legislature's website i'd like to take this
002time 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 the people participating remotely all testifier audio will be muted and video disabled until shortly before it is your turn to testify when i call your name staff will unmute you 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 we are going to start with senate bill 224 relating to education this gives a preference to students who live within the service area of a school or who enrolled in the school the previous school year who apply for participation in a career and technical education program offered by that school establishes
003enrollment in a career and technical education program as a new exception to the requirement to attend school within the service area in which a student resides to testify on senate bill 224 terry ushijima interim assistant superintendent on behalf of the department of education good afternoon chair kidani vice chairman khan of kim and members of the committee i'm on interim assistant superintendent of the department of education testifying on behalf of superintendent christina kishimoto the hawaii department of education recognizes that intent and respectfully provides comments on senate bill 224 and stand on our written testimony thank you for your support of our cte programs we know that it is one of the vital pathways along with others to provide students with opportunities to pursue their interests and aspirations and benefits our future state workforce the system in
004which a school determines entry into career and technical education program varies with each school design being unique schools weigh ge applications with existing resources example availability of space instructors equipment for the various programs when approving the applications including cte thank you terry members are there questions we have other written testimony but she was the only oral testimony if not moving on to senate bill 518 relating to education requires the department of education to establish and implement the sexual abuse prevention education program to educate public school students on sexual abuse prevention provide relevant training to teachers and staff and inform parents and guardians about important child sexual abuse topics requires the board of education to adopt policies to effectuate program requires reports to the legislature appropriates funds to testify on senate bill 518 terry ushijima testifying
005on behalf of the department of education thank you very much chair kidani at the hawaii department of education who stands on our written testimony and respectfully provides comments on this bill currently the department implements board policy 103-5 sexual health education and is updating a list of vetted instructional materials for sexual health and sexual violence prevention which includes all of the proposed knowledge and skill requirements for child sexual abuse prevention instruction to students with the ongoing work of the department we continue to be committed to supporting students health well-being and safety and safety currently addresses the issues highlighted by this measure should the bill or should the measure move forward due to the scope of the proposed proposed statewide program the department anticipates that additional time will be needed to prepare for training and implementation the
006department respectfully recommends that activities and appropriations be extended over three years of phased activities with the first year being used to prepare for phase two thank you terry members questions if not our next testifier is judith clark executive director for hawaii youth services network judith aloha i'm judith clark executive director of hawaii youth services network and we are in strong support of this film the only education i received about sexual abuse as a child was to be aware of strangers but it wasn't a stranger who molested me and five other girls in my fourth grade class it was our school bus driver every child on the bus watched the abuse take place daily for a month or more but none of us knew how to report it or knew that it was the wrong thing
007when we when someone finally reported it to the school and we were called into the office by the to talk to the principal every one of us thought that we were the ones who had done something wrong if we had received education about sexual abuse we would have recognized it immediately known how to seek help and understand that we were not to blame for what had happened it could have been stopped after the first time with the first thank you judith members questions not our next testifier on senate bill 518 is ryan kusumoto president and ceo of parents and children together ryan thank you chairs and committee members i see aaron marin listed as a testifier and i would humbly like to yield my time to her if that's possible go ahead excuse me now
008go ahead thank you one in four girls and one in six boys are sexually abused by the age of 18. for the last 11 years i have traveled across america testifying at erin's law which requires every year we teach kids personal body safety education state of illinois and 11 years later here we have now passed it in nearly 40 states hawaii was one of those states that i traveled to tried to get it passed four years ago and was not successful as a young child the only education i got when it came to sexual abuse was by perpetrators the neighbor that told me this is our little secret no one will believe you i'll come get you if you tell anybody and then the family member that told me i would destroy our family i
009had no proof what he was doing to me and that no one would believe me no one was ever teaching me safe and unsafe touch safe but unsafe secrets and how to speak up and tell if you were being sexually abused so i had made it my mission for 11 years now to get this passed in all 50 states hawaii is one of 13 states left that have not passed and it is my hope after looking at my testimony that i've submitted to you this is no longer an unfunded mandate the aaron's law federal bill passed in 2015 signed by president obama providing federal funding towards the bill and the fact that all the success stories popping up around the country of kids coming forward and disclosing if been abused after being taught aaron's law
010one perfect example was just a few months ago out of south carolina the article out of a fox news report said brave child comes forward after being taught aaron's law and reporting it to teacher a maryland teacher was sentenced to 40 in prison after a 12 year old was taught aaron's law thank you aaron members questions next testifier is andre descara andre please proceed hello chair this is remote data staff andre is not on the call thank you that is all the testifiers that we had signed up to give oral testimony we do have several written testimonies in your packet members any questions moving on the third item on the agenda is senate bill 805 relating to the practice of behavior analysis makes the exemption from the behavior analysis licensing requirements permanent for certain teachers
011working in collaboration with a licensed behavior analyst or licensed psychologist clarifies exemptions from licensure as a behavior analyst for general education teachers direct support workers special education teachers and teacher trainees working in collaboration with or under the supervision of licensed professionals exempts licensed special education teachers and individuals in approved and accredited special education training programs who are working toward licensure as special ed teachers whose scope of practice and training includes applied behavior analysis to testify in senate bill 805 heidi i'm armstrong testifying on behalf of the department of education heidi please good afternoon senator kivani i'm heidi armstrong from the department of education and the department supports the intent of sb 805 relating to the practice of behavior analysis with modifications the department recommends that the licensed special education teacher exemption be amended to include
012only special education teachers licensed in severe profound disabilities or autism who have completed training in a behavior analysis and interventions and are operating within the boundaries and scope of their education training and practice the department is also in support of allowing licensed classroom teachers to implement aba services in a school setting in collaboration with a licensed behavior analyst or a licensed psychologist and in addition the department recommends that licensed classroom teachers be allowed to implement aba in consultation with special education teachers licensed in severe profound disabilities or autism the department recognizes there may be some special education teachers licensed in severe profound disabilities or autism who feel they're not equipped to provide the level of quality aba services they are tasked with in accordance with the proposed amendments of this bill these teachers may decline
013to perform such services while they seek additional training and support in their area of deficit as part of their commitment to ongoing professional learning there may be situations where special education teachers licensed and severe profound disabilities or autism may be prevented from performing this work due to their current assignment or caseload in these situations thank you heidi next testifier is nathan morata dean college of education university of hawaii dean morata please all right good afternoon cherokee vice chair kim and members of the committee uh nathan morocco dean college of education thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony on senate bill 805 exempting special education teachers for training in applied behavior analysis from the behavior analysis license licensing law the university of hawaii college bridge supports senate bill 805 which exempts spread teachers from with
014training in apa from the uh behavioral analysis licensing law the a licensed specialist teacher and individual was working course licensure as a special teacher and was enrolled in a state approved nationally accredited special education teacher preparation program that includes training and behavior analysis assessment and intervention provided that the special education teacher and individual working towards a license special and teachers hope and education and training and practice so we're very supportive of this bill thank you for allowing us to testify on our behalf thank you dean murata next to testify mary jo noonan chair the department of special education university of hawaii thank you senator quinani and vice chair kim i'm in favor of senate bill 805 and it's exemption 10. i'm professor and chair of the department and i have expertise in severe disabilities autism
015and applied behavior analysis or ada teachers licensed to severe profound disabilities and autism are very well trained to design and deliver aba assessments and interventions my written testimony also submitted illustrates the substantial overlap in the coursework and practicum for special education teachers and severe profound disabilities in autism and behavior analysts aba is the foundation of special education and severe disabilities and autism and it is assessed in the special education licensing exam used in hawaii we must include these skills in our accredited curriculum it will benefit our state and our state's children with licensed teachers and severe disabilities in autism are exempt from the behavior analyst licensing law and allowed to practice within the scope of their training and practice my written testimony provides suggested language for senate bill 805 thank you thank you next to
016testify corey rosenly president hawaii state teachers association hi mitsy hika speaking for corey rosenly president of hawaii state's teachers association we oppose sb 805 and this is the reason our teachers as we have stated before even our special ed teachers it's not the same license as if they were a behavior analyst or a school psychologist and we do not want them to be exempt we do agree they can in fact implement and the date that is on let's say july 1st 2019 on page 2 line 14 should absolutely be removed so that teachers can be free to implement the problem with implementation of the other like the functional behavior assessment we're talking about a 20 to 30 page report teachers are already overwhelmed especially our special ed teachers they do a lot of assessments but
017sometimes they need outside help they need to ask another expert to do a functional behavior assessment and give them an aba plan and then they work together to support the child thank you mitzi next to testify dr linda huffano for alex lichten on behalf of hawaii psychological association thank you good afternoon uh chair kidani and vice mercado kim i'm dr linda lufano and i am here to uh you have a written testimony but i'm also here to say that there is still a huge need for both aba paraprofessionals and aba professional so we are advocating or seeking clarification to ensure that licensed psychologists will be able to supervise any parent including registered behavior technicians we have trained these people sometimes they get an rbt certification in addition to the certification that that is required for
018us to to work with the doe or uh to work with third-party payers so we want to continue to supervise those people and we also believe that it will be helpful to the department of education we know that the superintendent in a recent report indicated that there is thank you dr houfano next to testify amanda kelly vice president co-founder together for our keiki amanda hello chair amanda is not on the call thank you next to testify amoy hugh penny individual okay you here and see me yes hi my name is dr ramoy penny i have over 25 years experience as both a board certified behavior analyst as well as special education teacher and administrator i have been teaching both licensed teachers in teacher licensing programs as well as behavior analysts and behavior analyst certification programs
019i am in favor of some of the exemptions made in collaboration with behavior analysts however i am in opposition to exemption 10 for teachers who are only enrolled but not licensed as special educators and for those who which we cannot test their exact competencies in um writing behavioral procedures the extent to which the the experience necessary to do such engage in such practices is uh quite extraordinary and uh to do so without a lice without collaboration with a licensed behavior analyst could lead to the opening of increased risk of harm thank you next to testify kristen kolberbert individual thank you chair kadani vice chair ricardo cammon members of the committee i would like to stand on my written testimony in support of exemptions 2 and exemption 4 but oppose exemption 10 and echo hsta's testimony
020ensuring that teachers have the support of experts as part of the iep team when needed to support some of our most vulnerable students thank you thank you kristin members that is the last of our oral testimony and we have several a number of written testimony are there any questions members if not thank you moving on to [Music] item number four relating to public school lands requires the attorney general let's say of hawaii on behalf of the department of education to institute proceedings to acquire certain land owned by the mililan town association by voluntary action or condemnation to testify on senate bill 806 randy tanaka for the department of education hello kidani vice chair kim thank you very much we truly support the bill and want to thank you senator and the mta for the extraordinary
021patience that you have displayed in getting this accomplished you should know that we're very close to the finish line the condemnation process has is in place we're about to complete the project in the front of the school and acquire the rest of the property that will be put to good use by the by the school so i just want to say thank you very much we support the intent of the bill and much mahalo thank you randy members questions and uh just as a note i am a board member of the mililani town association and they are voluntarily wanting to release the lands to the department of education without any questions members moving to item number five on our agenda senate bill 807 requires relating to education requires the department of education to submit an
022annual report on the school academic and financial plans to the board of education and the legislature to testify on senate bill 807 is phyllis una bisami for the department of education our deputy superintendent phyllis please aloha um vice chair kim and members of the committee i'm feliciano bassami deputy superintendent testifying on behalf of superintendent kishimoto the department supports the tenants of this bill and offers comment in our written testimony we thank the legislature for your interest in delivering high quality k-12 public education in hawaii school-level leaders in collaboration with their school community councils are best suited to design academic and financial plans to meet the needs and aspirations of the learners in their community the department state offices provide resources centralized and targeted support to ensure the successful execution of those school plans and we
023are available to answer any of your questions mahalo thank you phyllis also to testify sherry nakamura director for hey a coalition yes uh aloha cherokee danny vice chair kim and members of the committee a coalition is testifying in support of sp 807 on academic and financial plan reporting we thank the legislature for this bill which asks schools to connect the usage of financial resources to student outcomes stakeholders are entitled to see where schools are strategically spending their resources to provide the greatest impact on students while the bill improves transparency and connecting the use of resources to outcomes we believe that more should be done when we look at the academic plans on the doa website they are difficult to understand and there's no consistency in reporting across schools which makes it difficult to evaluate their
024effectiveness we give an example of how we think the academic plan should be structured so that stakeholders can logically follow the goals and strategies that both the schools system and the schools we hope that we were able to present it in a way that is easy to follow if you have any questions we are happy to stand by thank you for this opportunity to testify thank you very much sherry members questions sherry the last of our oral testimony we have two written testimony also there are no questions moving to item six on the agenda senate bill 809 relating to education appropriates funds to public school positions and the hawaii teachers standards board to testify dean nathan morata college education uh university of hawaii di morata please oh hi again good afternoon chair kadani vice chair
025kim and members of the committee the university of white manoa college of education supports senate bill 809 which provides funding for public school positions and the hawaii teacher standards board there is a continuous need for public school positions throughout the state of hawaii including the heart to fill areas in high demand positions further it means hawaii teacher standards board serves as a catalyst for ensuring all our teacher candidates have met professional ethical standards prior to receiving a teacher license thank you for allowing us my testimony to support thank you dean morata to testify also lynn hammond's executive director hawaii teacher standards board vin thank you chair kidani vice chair kim and members of the committee i'm lynn hammons executive director of the hawaii teacher standards board and we stand on our written testimony and strong
026support of the spill and thank you for hearing it we hope to be able to continue seamlessly to provide support for teacher licensing preparation programs and professional development in the state and if you have any questions i'm here to answer those for you but again thank you very much for hearing this bill and for your support thank you men members questions interesting if not we are moving on to the next item in our agenda senate bill 811 relating to the department of education requires the department of education to publish a weekly report on schools that have reported cobit 19 cases to testify on senate bill 811 phyllis una bisami deputy superintendent phyllis please are you i'm just checking can you hear me yes okay thank you aloha chair vice chair and members of the committee
027the listener basami deputy superintendent on behalf of superintendent kishimoto the department offers comments on this bill the department has been advised that disclosure of a specific school where an individual tests positive for covet 19 would negatively affect our ability to protect the individual and or community groups from being identified protect them from harassment and based on our experiences being marginal being marginalized the department has been able to respond to the incidence of covet exposure through our mitigation strategies current communication protocols and continual consultation with health experts from doh and cdc recent school visits by cdc and doh to multiple schools validated the efforts of our school leaders and teams to create a safe place in the midst of a pandemic to date we have no report of transmission of covet due to the way we
028operate our schools this is a testament to the dedicated work of our state level kovid thank you deputy superintendent uh members any questions good one phyllis i do have a question um you know i just wanted you to make sure is that we're not here to to say that you are you can't you shouldn't i mean you should be naming individuals that's not what we're asking we're just asking you to name the schools previously you guys have told us it's against hipaa it's against ferpa i doubt that that's the truth just recently i can't remember it was in the morning paper yesterday morning's paper a principal of a of a windward school you know said that they had a covet case i mean it's in the paper doh you know often names uh care homes
029and condos where there have been outbreaks so i do not see why you cannot name the school we're not asking you to name an individual a student or teacher whatever instead of naming a complex area which in the case of mililani can be from mililani town all the way through the north shore with thousands of people there wondering what school it is and you know being unaware it it makes them hesitant makes parents and students hesitant to want to come back to a you know in school classroom because they don't know which one it is and i'm not saying that the schools are not doing a good job uh sanitizing i'm just saying the public has a right to know what schools have been impacted so so why is really hesitant to do that so
030based on our thank you senator um and so based on our experiences and which schools have um been identified either by media or by others um we have experienced disruptions to the school community to the school operations we have seen families and or community groups that have been ostracized and or marginalized especially in schools in in communities that are small enough where it's easy to identify based on the the kinds of notice that might be given that was put into the media it is for that reason that we are hesitant to identify schools the burden of taking the questions inquiry either from media and or from the public and that falling on an individual school administrator at a time when they're trying to set up operations and so forth we know from talking with school
031leaders that it has impacted their ability to do their job and run these goals and it's for that reason i'm in front of you sharing that um we ask that you consider that we do do notification and communicate with those individuals that might have been affected by a person whether it's a staff member or and or a student that we do communicate with the com the affected community but that we do not feel that publishing yet on a weekly basis adds to the value of the communication protocols that we've already set up frankly deputy superintendent i believe that it would be less of an impact and to the school to have the information made public by the department of education it doesn't have to be the principle but just to let them know there was
032a case it's under control that's all that has to be said rather than having again multiple communities wondering you know is it their school was it their student was it you know their family member was it their teacher that's all i'm saying i think it's more disruptive when the public does not know members questions senator kim thank you uh i i to share the concerns of the chair wouldn't it be better for doe to get in front of it wouldn't it be better for you folks to control the message by putting it out and saying who would be the person to respond to it doesn't have to be the principal it can be the superintendent whoever you designate but you would be in control how is it going to help if a small community the
033people find out without you making the notice and word gets out and it doesn't necessarily get out in an accurate way then the community is going to be all up an alarm so i think that's a worse scenario than you folks being in front of it and taking control of it thank you senator um again we have communication protocols that include notifying the affected community of close contact possible close contact we also have in abundance of caution put in some protocols and agreed to certain procedures that we will use to make sure that we're protecting and keeping our our schools and our offices safe employees and students and so in our experiences so far we have set up those those um those protocols and have been using them for the last 10 months in those
034cases um we have found that that has helped to balance the uncertainty and reluctance of individuals who um carry the carry whatever for whatever reason and this sense of worry that i might be stigmatized i might lose standing in my in my community and we believe that as an organization that if we can help to balance that that we want to be able to do that and that that is why we set up our protocols the way we have all of the communication that has to do with a particular case is um handled with the school by the state office and by the the complex area and we do it as quickly as we can so that it reduces and the burden on the school and lessens hopefully the disruption to the school what we
035know is that when a school gets identified whether we agree that we will handle the media and or public inquiries the school still is a point as the focus of wanting communication beyond the school community i can understand everything you said and i certainly appreciate that but again this is a small community even the whole state of hawaii where it gets out so when you say stigmatize the fact that we're not talking about a case we're not talking about the individual we're talking about the school so i find your your reasoning to you know you can continue to do everything you're doing we're just the what the bill is calling for and what the community other this bill is here because this is what the community feels is needed and that they want to know
036what school so i think you folks need to rethink your your position on this thank you senator de la cruz phyllis what i don't understand why the department sees it as an either or similar to what senator kim is saying why can't you just do both again in discussion with our leaders and knowing what the impact is when we are when a school has been identified whether um erroneously or not the impact on a small school in a community where everyone knows each other is detrimental and i am speaking from experience and it is for that reason as we as we learned and we built the system um i can only say that in my experience i will do what i can at my in my role to continue to protect on the individual from
037being the focus of attention while they're converting from an illness and that's why i am asking for you to consider that that position also i think it's more if effective if the department comes out with messaging versus having the coconut wireless start to dictate the messaging and then you lose control and then now you're doing more mitigating on the messaging because you didn't come up with anything official from the beginning so please note that we do come up with something but it is to the affected community um and the people that are in close proximity to the case okay i just think in this time of social media and twitter and facebook and people calling and texting that if the department is not ahead of it then now you're having to deal with more mitigation
038more effort getting the truth told out trying to change get the facts out and you're already behind because the department's not taking the lead further questions members if not moving on to the next testifier who looks like he's ready to jump in cory rosen the president hawaii state teachers association you may be again corey thank you chuck itani good to see all of you oh yes hsca supports us bill this is something that we've been advocating from the beginning of this pandemic we know that other states are actually doing it by school there's so much need for this for multiple reasons we shouldn't have to guess if there's cases at a school it doesn't allow us to have any accountability to the doe especially to look to see what type of opening a school is
039having whether it's bringing all students on campus is there higher cases we also have our teachers share that some schools are not maintaining certain cleanliness standards and there's no accountability to check with this as well so if we're noticing that certain types of openings are causing more cases or if we're seeing that the schools are not able to keep up to certain cleanliness standards and that is leading to increase of cases there needs to be some accountability in the department so that's why we do support this bill thank you corey um you know i'm i neglected to mention that senator favela is with us virtually senator favela thank you for joining us members any questions of corey rosenly please if not corey thank you very much moving on to item number eight and the last
040item on our agenda senate bill 812 relating to education requires a superintendent to serve as a summer learning coordinator and coordinate all summer programs for children requires the summer learning coordinator to leverage certain federal funds for school-based summer programs to testify on senate bill 812 terry ushijima for the department of education please thank you cherokee dani thank you for this opportunity to testify on behalf of the superintendent the hawaii department of education respectfully provides comments on senate bill 8-12 and stands on our written testimony given the existing board policy 500-18 providing the superintendent with discretion over summer school programming and the existing cross-office collaboration we believe this measure is not needed at this time we will defer to the department of human services in regards to any restrictions placed on the federal funds administered by
041their department that is mentioned in the bill thank you members questions terry i have a question um with regard to any programs being looked at by doe for remediation for our students who are falling far behind because of you know of course the pandemic and not being able to be physically in school are there programs being looked at now is there a plan i yes we are currently working with our complex area superintendents who are working with their schools to look at their student progress up to this point and they are in the process of determining what their school needs are and we will be having further discussions about possible options this upcoming month and moving forward well we're already in february and in three and a half months or so you know summer will
042be here for for our students um i think we're kind of getting past the time of looking and we need to be having some plans in place um and that's you know i have some concerns because you guys have already posted some of the uh the test results and we know that between 23 and 25 percent of our students in grade school are failing in or behind in reading and math um that being known i think you know those are programs that you should be looking at and should have some idea of what we're going to do for these students yes we we realize that summer will be here very soon and that it is important for us to start looking at what we need to do to extend learning for some of these students
043in need and we are also waiting to make sure that you know we work with our our board of education to get appropriate um approvals and decisions to uh determine our funding sources as well so why we are not just waiting um we are actively in the process of working with our schools in complex areas to design what the school specific programs might look like thank you for that terry but in listening to some of the board meetings um it seems to me that the board is asking the same questions and also you know asking about uh what the plans are for funding and have not received that information yet so i i just wanted you guys to be put on notice that we are aware of what the statistics are and we are aware
044that there will be funding coming down from from the feds to help with the department of education we are aware of the budget shortfalls which is why planning now for courses and curriculum that's going to be needed is even more important to make sure that we have funds available to carry this out and keep our children at the grade levels that they need to be to move them on to the next grade members any further questions senator favela are you raising your hand no okay i'm scratching my nose thank you terry moving on to the next testifier kathy betts director department of human services kathy please good afternoon sharokina vice chair kim and members of the committee my name is catherine scardino i am program administrator with dhs here to testify on behalf of director
045best the department stands on its with written testimony and offered comments we will stand by to answer any questions from committee members thank you members any questions if not moving on to corey rosenly president hawaii state teachers association uh chair kadani hsd opposes the bill as it stands right now specifically one provision and that is that the uh there could be use of the keras acts funding for this um the last boe meeting the superintendent put forward a proposal that was asking for 50 million dollars for private tutors and 10 million dollars for summer school learning at the same time looking to eliminate 700 teaching positions we know that there's great need out there but we need to prioritize so we would ask that if this bill proceeds just to eliminate the cares act as
046a potential source of funding thank you thank you corey this is exactly why we're asking the department for their plans because we would like to know what that is also members questions if not paula adams executive director hawaii after school alliance good afternoon chair kidani vice chairs mercado kim and members of the committee i am paula adams from the kawaii after school alliance and i'm here to support the intent of the bill and to answer any questions that you might have regarding summer programs thank you for this opportunity to testify thank you paula members questions if not nicole wu director hawaii children's action network speaks aloha chair uh kidani and vice chair kim members of the committee i'm the director of research and economic policy at hawaii children's action network speaks and i stand on
047our written testimony in support of the spill we know pandemic learning loss is affecting our students especially those without the means it's exacerbating inequalities in our state so we believe that a coordinated effort on summer learning is one way that we can really help these students catch up the current system is sort of first come first serve um it would be great if there are ways to really target those children who've been falling behind further from their peers and we really um you know we defer to hsta and their concerns if there are certain funds that aren't appropriate we understand that but the idea of coordinating summer learning is the important thing too is our important message and we support that part of the bill thank you nicole members questions if not can i call
048for a recess we're reconvening the on education three o'clock agenda starting with senate bill 224 recommendation of the chair is to pass as is chair votes i question both sides hi senator hi senator favela once twice excused affirmative recommendations thank you senate bill 518 relating to education recommendation is to pass with amendments this is a bill to require the department of education to establish and implement a sexual abuse prevention education program we will include charter school participation in the development of the program and specifying that the board of education adopt board policies applicable to all public schools including charter schools we will also insert a blank amount of appropriation amount to go to the charter commission for the purpose of implementation of the program and we also have technical and non-substantive amendments no questions senate
049bill 518 pass with amendments chair votes eye chair both sides thank you for senate bill 805 relating to the practice of behavior analysis recommendation of the chair is going to be to pass with amendments we will focus on area where we do have consensus by striking the exemption 10 in section 1 and also making technical and non-substantive amendments questions if not senate bill 805 to pass with amendments chair votes aye both side vice chair both sides senator cruz all right all right senator kavela aye members president all affirmative recommendations thank you senate bill 806 relating to public school lands this is the uh mililani town association uh voluntary action of condemnation for the department of education at mililani high school recommendation the chair is to pass as is members questions if not senate bill 806
050pass as is chair votes eyewitnesses all right thank you senate bill 807 relating to education requires the department of education to submit an annual report in the school academic and financial plans to the board of education and the legislature recommendation of the chairs to pass with amendments clarifying that three most recent years of strive high data must be included in the academic plan the naep scores apply to schools who participate school outcomes in the academic plan must have priority improvement strategies and measures to determine progress and also the reflect in the committee report the suggestion by hey coalition to set up continuous monitoring by complex area and state leadership to support schools members questions if not recommendation is to pass with amendment senate bill 807 chair votes eye share any members voting no any members
051voting with reservations if not all members voting an affirmative your recommendations adopted thank you senate bill 809 appropriates funds to public school positions and the hawaii teachers standards board recommendation is to pass with amendments making technical and non-substantive amendments um chair wanted all to also to to say that this is not new funding it just was not put in the line item this is something hawaii teaches standards voice has been around for a long time and we do need them so recommendation again is to pass senate bill 809 with amendments to make technical and non-substantive amendments questions share both sides any member voting no any member of voting reservations hearing none five members in the affirmative recommendations thank you senate bill 811 requires the department of education to publish a weekly report on schools that
052have reported covid 19 cases recommendation of the chair is to pass as is members questions if not recommendation of the chair is to pass senate bill 811 as is chair votes eye trouble signing members voting no any members voting reservations hearing none recommendation all members going and affirmative recommendations adopted thank you the final bill is senate bill 812 requires the superintendent to serve as a summer learning coordinator and coordinate all summer programs for children requires a summer learning coordinator to leverage certain federal funds for school-based summer programs recommendation of the chair is going to be to def pass with amendments and the amendments would be to defect the date to july 1 2050 for further discussion of this bill members questions recommendations past senate bill 812 with amendments chair votes eye double sign remember voting
053no and remember voting with reservations reservations okay reservations for senator fabella anyone else if not for all font members in the affirmative recommendations of them thank you members thank you audience for your testimony meetings adjourned you