STAND. COM. REP. NO.305

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 22

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 22 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MASTER TEACHERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to create a class of master teachers to serve a mentors and staff developers within the public schools.

Testimony in support of the intent of this measure was submitted by the Department of Education. Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Hawaii Teachers Standards Board, the University of Hawaii College of Education, and the Hawaii State Teachers Association.

Your Committee finds that the Department of Education needs to have a continuum of incentives to retain exceptional teaching staff and to encourage them to serve as mentors to less experienced teachers. Your Committee further finds that this program will serve those purposes.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Replacing the first requirement of a "proven record of successful teaching" with a "Masters degree from an accredited university";

(2) Replacing the Department of Education as the certifying entity with the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity and style.

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 S.B. No. 22, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 22, 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