STAND. COM. REP. NO. 230

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1866

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1866 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STUDENT SERVICES COORDINATORS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Education to review its budget regarding the position of student services coordinators.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that the department currently employs a student services coordinator at every public school regardless of the population of the school. Although the coordinators serve a valuable purpose in schools, placing one in each school may not be fiscally prudent. Therefore, this measure will require the department to review its policies to make recommendations for what the optimum number of coordinators is needed in consideration of a school's population.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1866 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education and Military Affairs,

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair