STAND. COM. REP. NO.2429

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 3007

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 3007 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purposes of this measure are to:

(1) Propose constitutional amendments to abolish the Board of Education and establish the Superintendent and Education Select Commission; and

(2) Require the Superintendent to be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, from a list of nominees presented to the Governor by the select commission.

Your Committees received testimony in support of the measure from the Hawaii State Teachers Association. Your Committees received oral testimony in opposition to the measure from the Board of Education.

Your Committees find that the quality of public secondary education in Hawaii has been below par for far too long. Reform of the governance structure guiding public secondary education may be one important means of improving the quality of education. This measure may not provide all of the solutions needed to address the problem but is being passed on to the Committee on Ways and Means in order to provide a vehicle for continued discussion of this matter in the hope that solutions acceptable to all stakeholders will emerge in the course of the legislative session.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3007 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Judiciary,

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BRIAN KANNO, Chair

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair