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STATE OF HAWAIʻI
BOARD OF EDUCATION - PAPA HOʻONAʻAUAO
GENERAL BUSINESS MEETING
MEMBERS
Roy M. Takumi, Chairperson
Bill Arakaki, Vice Chairperson
Elynne Chung Kahele Dukelow Mary Hattori
Ken Kuraya Sylvia Lee Wesley Lo Makana McClellan
NOTICE OF MEETING
Thursday, May 14, 2026
1:30 p.m.
Public Meeting Location
Queen Liliʻuokalani Building
1390 Miller Street, Room 404
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi 96813
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AGENDA
The Board will accept public testimony with each agenda item.
List of documents distributed to Committee members before the meeting
Written testimony:
5/13/26 packet
5/14/26 packet
- Call to order
- Approval of meeting minutes of March 12, 2026, General Business meeting
- Report of the Superintendent
A. Updates on 2026 legislative sessionHB1713 Relating to school impact fees
Expands exemptions from school impact fee requirement for certain housing developments. Clarifies procedures and timing for land dedication or fee‑in‑lieu agreements for new residential developments. Repeals the sunset and reporting requirements under Act 268, SLH 2025. Restructures certain school impact fee accounts. Preserves existing educational contribution agreements. (CD1)HB1785 Relating to student transportation
Authorizes the Superintendent to hire a new contractor if a contractor under a student transportation contract fails to provide service on a contracted service capacity or designated service segment for five or more consecutive instructional days. Authorizes the Department of Education to assess a penalty if a contractor fails to provide service on a designated service segment without an approved justification. Authorizes the use of the School Bus Fare Revolving Fund to offset costs associated with procuring replacement services. (CD1)HB1800 Relating to the state budget
Adjusts and requests appropriations for fiscal biennium 2025‑2027 funding requirements for operations and capital improvement projects of Executive Branch agencies and programs. (CD1)HB1888 Relating to the safety of educational workers
Part I: Requires the Department of Education and state public charter schools to take certain steps to better address the harassment of educational workers, including sports officials. Authorizes the Attorney General to assist educational workers, including sports officials at department of education or public charter school sporting events, who have been subject to harassment or intentional bodily injury in obtaining a temporary restraining order. Part II: Includes the intentional, knowing or reckless disruption or interference with a school function, school administration, or school board under the offense of harassment. Makes harassment to an educational worker, including sports officials, engaged in the performance of their duty a misdemeanor. (CD1)HB1890 Relating to education
Provides annual salary step increases for public schools and public charter school teachers who have completed one year's satisfactory service and comply with specified requirements, if negotiated into a collective bargaining agreement pursuant to section 89-9, HRS, and subject to funds appropriated by the Legislature. (CD1)HB1891 Relating to education
Requires the Department of Education to implement dyslexia sensitive linguistically appropriate universal screenings and evidence-based interventions, offer professional development on structured literacy and evidenced-based interventions, and support pre-teacher programs in training candidates in structured literacy instruction. (CD1)HB1894 Relating to education
Requires the Department of Education to include the instruction of braille and provision of braille instructional materials under certain circumstances; provide braille literacy support services; cooperate with the Department of Human Services when requested to submit information necessary to maintain a register of the blind in the State; provide comprehensive information about braille literacy services, assistive technology devices, and assistive technology services, including educational programming options; and participate in the development of section 504 plans and individualized education programs. Appropriates funds. (CD1)HB2293 Relating to the harm to students registry
Clarifies the scope of the Department of Education's harm to students registry by excluding K-12 students and by providing that contractors and volunteers are included only if their roles involves interaction with students. (CD1)HB2296 Relating to school meals
Requires the Department of Education to charge not less than one-quarter of the cost of preparing a school meal for each school meal. (SD2)HB2297 Relating to education
Updates Hawaiʻi's statutory framework for adult and community education programs to ensure alignment with federal funding requirements and current best practices in those programs. (CD1)
HB2300 Relating to Department of Education procurement
Adjusts the applicability of Act 134, SLH 2025, to clarify the threshold for Department of Education procurement of local edible produce and packaged food products. Prohibits the artificial division and parceling of DOE procurements of local edible produce and packaged food products. Sunsets 6/30/2028. (CD1)HB2344 Relating to school facilities
Establishes a temporary, independent Public School Realignment and Closure Commission to develop and recommend a comprehensive package of school consolidations, realignments, and closures based on the federal Base Realignment and Closure model. Requires reports to the Legislature. Requires an expedited approval process for the recommended school consolidations, realignments, and closures. Appropriates funds. (CD1)SB2125 Relating to teacher licensing
Allows the Department of Education and charter schools to hire unlicensed individuals as teachers on an emergency basis for five, rather than three, years. Requires that unlicensed teachers hired on an emergency basis make continuous and verifiable progress toward satisfying licensing requirements. Sunsets on 6/30/2031, but provides that unlicensed emergency hires employed before the sunset date may continue employment for up to five years from their hiring date, under certain conditions. (CD1)SB2613 Relating to public school land transfer
Revises tax map key numbers and the conveyance process by which identified properties are conveyed to the Department of Education pursuant to Act 307, SLH 2022. Directs the conveyance to the County of Kauai of certain lands held by the Department of Education. Directs the conveyance of land on which Kaimuki Middle School is located from the City and County of Honolulu to the Department of Education. Clarifies that land dispositions of school buildings, facilities, and grounds made by the DOE shall not require approval from the Board of Land and Natural Resources when these dispositions are for periods exceeding one year. (CD1)SB2614 Relating to education
Authorizes the Department of Education to award a high school diploma to qualified persons who did not receive a high school diploma as a result of compulsory or voluntary induction into the armed services of the United States or whose high school education was interrupted due to wartime practices during World War II, the Korean War, or the Vietnam War. (HD2)SB2877 Relating to education
Requires the Department of Education to establish a two-year Student-Authored Book Publication Pilot Program. Authorizes the Pilot Program to be conducted for fourth, fifth, and sixth graders at up to five Kalihi public elementary schools and up to five Nanakuli-Waianae public elementary schools to be integrated into existing curricula. Appropriates funds. (CD1)SB2930 Relating to the State Risk Management Revolving Fund
Increases the expenditure ceiling and appropriates funds out of the State Risk Management Revolving Fund to distribute property and liability insurance proceeds related to the 2023 Maui wildfires to be expended by the School Facilities Authority, Department of Transportation, and Department of Land and Natural Resources to rebuild and restore certain state facilities in Lahaina. Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to submit to the Legislature a master coordinated project plan developed in collaboration with certain state agencies and in consultation with the County of Maui and other relevant entities. Requires the Department of Education to transfer exclusive site control over the new King Kamehameha III Elementary School property to the SFA while the School is under construction. Requires DAGS to transfer to the SFA any materials deemed necessary for the construction of the School and to provide further support as necessary upon request. Requires the SFA to submit monthly progress reports to the Governor and Legislature. Allows the Governor to transfer certain authorities and responsibilities from the SFA to another state agency under certain conditions. Requires full funding for the projects for which funds are appropriated to be available before expenditure. (CD1)SB3118 Relating to the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children
Updates references to the United States Code in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. (HD2)SB3262 Relating to education
Requires that the Hawaiʻi Teacher Standards Board submit three nominees for its Executive Director to the Board of Education. Requires the Board of Education to appoint an Executive Director from the nominees on the list, subject to advice and consent of the Senate. (CD1)B. Commencements - Class of 2026
C. Awards and recognitions for students, employees, and schools
- Hawaiʻi P-20 Partnerships for Education college and career readiness indicators report
- Investigative committee (a permitted interaction group pursuant to paragraph 92-2.5(b)(1), Hawaii Revised Statutes) investigation relating to nomination of individuals to serve as members of the State Public Charter School Commission: Findings and recommendations on nominations
- Update on Department of Education’s supplemental operating budget request for fiscal year 2026-2027
- Update on Department of Education’s supplemental capital improvement projects budget request for fiscal year 2026-2027
- Update on Department of Education’s current capital improvement projects portfolio
- Action on revision to School Community Council request for exceptions to collective bargaining agreements, statutory waivers, and waivers of Board policy for school year 2026-2027 previously approved by the Board on April 9, 2026
- Student Achievement Committee oral report on April 9, 2026, meeting
- Oral report on events attended by Board members in April
- Adjournment
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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Under Hawaiʻi’s Sunshine Law (chapter 92, Hawaii Revised Statutes), all testimony, both written and spoken, must be about an item on the agenda.
Written Testimony
The Board accepts written testimony on any agenda item. We strongly encourage this as the primary way to submit testimony.
All testimony is posted publicly and permanently on the Board’s website, and referenced in meeting minutes. Remove or block out any personal information you do not want posted (like your name, email, phone number, or picture).
You can submit written testimony:
- Online using the appropriate form here: https://boe.hawaii.gov/submit-testimony/. Fill out one form for each agenda item you want to comment on; or
- By mail to: Hawaiʻi State Board of Education, P.O. Box 2360, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi 96804.
Written testimony received more than three business days before the meeting will be sent to Board members and posted on the website's meeting agenda. Written testimony received after this time but before the meeting will also be posted on the website’s meeting agenda by the start of the meeting. Any written testimony received after the last posting of testimony before the meeting and up until 11:59 p.m. of the meeting day will be posted as late testimony.
Oral Testimony
The Board accepts oral testimony in person and as a courtesy, also online. To sign up to testify either in person or online, fill out the appropriate form here: https://boe.hawaii.gov/submit-testimony/. Fill out one form for each agenda item you want to testify on.
- For in-person testimony: Come to the table when your name is called.
- For online testimony:
- You must register and log in to the WebEx meeting online using the details in the meeting agenda. Use the exact same name, including any alias, you used on the sign-up form. We cannot call on you if you use a different name.
- All testifiers must use their computer audio to participate. We cannot call on you if you call in only by phone. Test your speakers and microphone beforehand to make sure they work.
- During the meeting, your microphone should be muted until it is your turn to testify. When your name is called, a message will appear asking you to unmute. If we cannot hear you, we will call the next testifier.
- For remote meetings, a message will also appear asking you to turn on your camera. If you wish to be on camera, turn on the camera. Test your camera beforehand to make sure it works.
- We may turn off a participant's audio or video if needed.
- For detailed steps on how to join online, go to https://boe.hawaii.gov/participate-virtually/.
Board office staff will call on testifiers by agenda item. You can only testify on an agenda item once, even if you signed up multiple times for the same item. When it is your turn to testify, say your name, organization, and position if you have one, and the agenda item you are speaking on.
Each person has three minutes to testify, but the chairperson may change this time. You will hear a single bell when you have 30 seconds left. You will hear a double bell when your time is over, and your microphone may be automatically muted. Testifiers cannot give their time to other people.
Upon request, this notice is available in alternate/accessible formats.
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Roy M. Takumi, Board Chairperson
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