STAND. COM. REP. 2942

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 1875

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1875, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR TEXTBOOKS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate one dollar for the Department of Education to purchase more new and recently published textbooks in order to update the textbooks periodically and to provide a sufficient number of textbooks for every student enrolled in the public schools.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Education, Hawaii State Teachers Association, and a high school student.

Your Committee finds that providing an adequate amount of textbooks is one of the most fundamental prerequisites for student success academically. Your Committee further finds, however, that curriculum is often not aligned within a school complex. This hampers a student's ability to attend different schools within the complex, as well as their ability to pass from grade-to-grade with an articulated, cumulative arc of learning.

Your Committee has amended the measure by:

(1) Requiring that a particular school's textbooks shall be aligned with the curriculum of that school's complex as a whole; and

(2) Deleting the specific appropriation figure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1875, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1875, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair