STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1155-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.C.R. No. 71




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.C.R.
No. 71 entitled: 

     "HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ADOPTING AND ACHIEVING A POLICY
     GOAL THAT BY THE YEAR 2004 NINETY PERCENT OF STUDENTS IN
     PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS READ AT OR ABOVE GRADE LEVEL BY
     THE END OF THE THIRD GRADE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to adopt and
achieve a policy goal that by the year 2004 ninety percent of
students in public elementary schools read at or above grade
level by the end of the third grade.

     Two individuals testified in support of this measure.  The
Department of Education supported the intent of this measure.

     Your Committee finds that by the third grade, educators can
accurately predict future academic success or failure based on a
student's reading ability at that point.  Furthermore, academic
failure at middle and high school is often preceded by failure to
learn or read at or near grade level.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your
Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 71
and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance.


 
 
 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Education,



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                                   KEN ITO, Chair