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Aloha HE'E Members and Participants,
Upcoming HE'E Meetings
HE'E Quarterly Meeting, Wednesday February 5, 2014 from 4:00-5:30pm, at The Learning Coalition, 841 Bishop Street #301 (Validated Parking at Ali'i Place at 1099 Alakea St. See map here.*For those needing special accommodations to The Learning Coalition, please contact cheri@heecoalition.org.)
HE'E is delighted to have Tom Hutton, Executive Director of the Hawaii State Public Charter School Commission, as guest speaker. Please join us for an overview and update on the status of Charter Schools in Hawaii. Light Refreshments will be provided. An electronic invite will also be sent shortly.
HE'E Planning Meeting, Tuesday February 11, 2014 from 9-11:00am, at The Learning Coalition
We will give an update on the status of education legislation at this meeting.
Legislative News
The legislative session is coming quickly and we are preparing information to best inform Coalition on education issues ahead and what issues members expressed interest in following.
HE'E Member Feedback on Upcoming Legislative Issues
HE'E members met on Wednesday, January 8, to review upcoming legislative issues in education. Please see notes from the meeting here. The following are topics and corresponding prospective legislation members in which members expressed interest.
Issues from Past Sessions:
Early Education
- Constitutional Amendment Legislation
Family-School Leave
- Working families being able to take off to attend child's school conferences, classroom activities, etc.
Relating to Education
- 21st Century Schools-- to optimize the use of public school lands to generate opportunities to improve public school facilities and infrastructure to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century
Current Issues
Early Educaiton
Budget
- DOE's Supplemental Budget, which includes $25 million for Air Conditioning
Human Services
- Youth Risk Behavior Survey-legislation which enables parents to "opt-out" of taking survey
Relating to Education
- Representative Justin Woodson is drafting a bill relating to education with two objectives:
(1) Establish a pilot project to assist students in achieving annual goals under the common core state
standards; and
(2) Develop a plan to provide web-based data and information for each public school aimed at improving
student outcomes.
We will continue to track and review these ideas and inform members if new information becomes available. If members have any issue they would like to track, please send ideas to cheri@heecoallition.org. HE'E staff will be sending weekly updates on bills members in which members have expressed interest in during the legislative session.
HE'E may send testimony as a Coalition to support/oppose bills if voting members have a consensus (75%) to do so. HE'E may also provide comments to bills, both pros and cons, so that policy makers and legislators may hear voices from the community. We also encourage members to submit testimony on their own for issues the feel strongly about, as well as attend hearings.
HE'E meeting notes posted on http://www.heecoalition.org/resources/hee-meeting-notes/
HE'E email archives on http://www.heecoalition.org/resources/hee-email-newsletter-archive
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