PART II. 
PROVISIONS AFFECTING STUDENTS



 



A.  Student
Performance Standards



 



§302A-201  Statewide performance
standards.  (a)  The board shall establish statewide performance standards
and the means to assess the standards based upon the recommendations in the
final report of the performance standards commission established pursuant to
Act 334, Session Laws of Hawaii 1991; provided that the board may review and
modify the performance standards, as the board deems necessary, to reflect the
needs of public school students and educational goals adopted by the board.



(b)  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary,
the department shall establish procedures and guidelines for, and shall expand,
its statewide assessment program to include norm-referenced testing in the same
grades as required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Public Law
107-110) standards-based assessment (grades 3 through 8 and one grade in high
school) in reading and math, using the most appropriate nationally normed test.
[L 1996, c 89, pt of §2; am L 2002, c 197, §1; am L 2009, c 33, §2]