STAND. COM. REP. NO. 642-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2095
                                     




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.B. No.
2095 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to change the term "vocational"
to the phrase "career and technical" in Chapter 305A, Hawaii
Revised Statutes, and related references.

     The State Board for Vocational Education supported this
bill.  The Department of Education supported the intent of this
bill.

     Your Committee finds that replacing the term "vocational"
with "career and technical" would be a positive change.  There is
a growing national movement to change the term "vocational
education" to a term that more accurately reflects the knowledge
and skill that students must attain to be productive members of
today's workforce.  Your Committee finds that "career and
technical" better describes the combination of academic knowledge
and traditional hands-on vocational skills that are necessary for
today's students, and therefore, supports this bill as written.

     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.
2095 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on
the calendar for Third Reading.

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



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                                   KEN ITO, Chair