STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2699

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2116

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2116, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to facilitate the implementation of the recommendations of the Charter School Governance, Accountability, and Authority Task Force.

 

     More specifically, this measure:

 

     (1)  Requires the Board of Education to contract for an Implementation and Transition Coordinator to assist with the implementation of S.B. No. 2115, Regular Session of 2012, a measure that reorganizes the structure of charter school governance; and

 

     (2)  Makes an appropriation in an unspecified amount to the Department of Education for the Board of Education to contract for an Implementation and Transition Coordinator.

 

     Written comments in support of this measure were submitted by the Department of the Attorney General.  Written comments in opposition to this measure were submitted by the State Procurement Office.

 

     Your Committee finds that Act 130, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011, established the Charter School Governance, Accountability, and Authority Task Force.  The goal of the task force was to provide clarity to the relationships, responsibilities, and lines of accountability and authority among stakeholders of Hawaii's charter school system, including the Board of Education, Department of Education, Charter School Administrative Office, Charter School Review Panel, and local school boards.

 

     Your Committee also finds that the task force concluded its work and issued its report and recommendations to the Legislature, which are included in S.B. No. 2115.  Your Committee further finds that this measure will provide the Board of Education, Department of Education, and charter school stakeholders with the means to create a comprehensive transition framework to implement the recommendations of the task force.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the term "best practices" from the description of the minimum qualifications of the Implementation and Transition Coordinator; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2116, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2116, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair