STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1327

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1253

S.D. 1

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 S.B. No. 1253, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to clarify a School Community Council's (SCC) authority and responsibilities by requiring a SCC to ensure that the school's academic and financial plans are consistent with the educational accountability system.

The Department of Education, Hawaii State Teachers Association, and Hawaii Laborers-Employees Cooperation Educational Trust testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill to further clarify a SCC's authority and responsibilities by requiring a SCC either to recommend revisions of the school's academic and financial plans to the principal, or approve the plans and recommend that the plans be approved by the complex area superintendent.

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. 1253, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1253, S.D. 1, 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