STAND. COM. REP. NO.791

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1248

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. 1248 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL/COMMUNITY-BASED MANAGEMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure, as received by your Committee, is to require school/community-based management (SCBM) to secure the support of the school community and to mandate the implementation of SCBM in every public school by the 2006-2007 school year.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Education and the Hawaii State Parent Teacher Student Association. The Hawaii State Teachers Association and the Hawaii Government Employees Association Local 152 submitted testimony noting concerns.

Your Committee finds that school/community-based management has been implemented in most public schools, but twenty-three schools have not formally adopted SCBM. Your Committee further finds that in a study of school/community-based management conducted for the Board of Education, the research indicated that while the goal of school-based management was improved student achievement, the data did not reflect any appreciable difference in student achievement or in a variety of school factors as between SCBM and non-SCBM schools. Your Committee further notes that this same study did find differences in levels of parental and teacher participation, again not necessarily correlated to SCBM, and therefore concludes that SCBM has not necessarily proved to be the only model for achieving and maintaining parental and teacher participation within the school. Thus, your Committee agrees that the Department should advocate the adoption of SCBM or alternative models that invite participation by parents and teachers in the planning and decision-making processes at the schools.

Your Committee has amended this measure deleting its contents and substituting therefor a request for a report from the Superintendent through the Board of Education on how to implement a school/community-based management or alternative system that would invite parental and teacher participation in school planning and decision-making processes within the schools.

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. 1248, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1248, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair