STAND. COM. REP. NO. 232

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1348

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Education and Higher Education and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 1348 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow the University Laboratory School to conform its student enrollment profile to the standard prescribed by the University of Hawaii College of Education in order to meet the University of Hawaii College of Education's research requirements.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawaii College of Education, University Laboratory School, Hawaii Public Charter Schools Network, and eighteen individuals.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the State Public Charter School Commission.

 

     Your Committees find that the University Laboratory School admissions policy is implemented to provide an inclusive student population reflective of Hawaii's population by gender, family income, ethnicity, and school achievement, including English language learners and special needs students.  The student population is chosen to reflect Hawaii's demographic makeup to enable research and development and to ensure generalizability of the innovations created within the University Laboratory School to Hawaii's public schools.

 

     Your Committees further find that this measure is necessary to clarify that a public charter school enrollment preference for research and development purposes is acceptable.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Higher Education and the Arts that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1348 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Higher Education and the Arts,

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair

 

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MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair