STAND. COM. REP. 814

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1021

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1021, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow the University of Hawaii (UH) Board of Regents to operate New Century Charter Schools that use Hawaiian as their primary language and establish the basis for a laboratory school program in the College of Hawaiian Language at UH-Hilo.

Ke Kula O Samuel M. Kamakau Laboratory Public Charter School testified in support of this measure. The Hawaii Government Employees Association and a concerned citizen testified in support of the intent of this measure. The Department of Education and Board of Education testified in opposition to this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1021, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair