STAND. COM. REP. NO. 677

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 844

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 844 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to clarify the responsibility of the principal and the School Community Council (SCC) with respect to a school's academic and financial plans. This bill requires:

(1) A principal to obtain the SCC's "recommendation" of academic and financial plans, rather than "approval"; and

(2) The SCC to ensure that the school's academic and financial plans are "consistent" with the educational accountability system, rather than "aligned".

The Department of Education and Hawaii Government Employees Association testified in support of this bill. The Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Reinstating the SCC's approval of a school's academic and financial plan; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 844, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 844, H.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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ROY TAKUMI, Chair