REPORT TITLE:
Approp.; Early Childhood


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates funds to convert Linapuni School into an early
childhood education center.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           743
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER.
 


BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Recent studies have found that quality early
 
 2 child care and education services have a dramatic long-term
 
 3 effect on a child's ability to succeed in school, achieve
 
 4 economically, and avoid the criminal justice system.  However,
 
 5 early child care also benefits the current work force as well, by
 
 6 affecting economic initiatives, productivity of workers, and the
 
 7 success of state welfare-to-work initiatives.  The legislature
 
 8 finds that it is important to create new opportunities for early
 
 9 childhood development and education.  
 
10      The legislature further finds that the students at Linapuni
 
11 school, an abbreviated elementary school from kindergarten to the
 
12 second grade, could be served just as well by Kalihi-waena and
 
13 Fern elementary schools.  Linapuni school could then be converted
 
14 to serve as a pilot project center for early childhood education.
 
15      The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to convert
 
16 Linapuni school to an early childhood development and education
 
17 center for infants and children up to four years of age.
 
18      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
19 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so
 

 
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 1 much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 1999-2000, for
 
 2 the conversion of Linapuni school to an early childhood education
 
 3 center for infants and children up to four years of age.
 
 4      SECTION 3.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
 5 department of education for the purposes of this Act.
 
 6      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999.
 
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 8                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________