STAND. COM. REP. 2260

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2157

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2157 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL PERSONNEL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funding to hire additional career counselors for each Department of Education high school, based on school enrollment.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Education and Hawaii State Teachers Association. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to the measure from an individual.

Your Committee finds that with additional positions and operating funds, high schools will be able to reach additional students in areas of scholarship attainment, financial aid, and career selection, and provide the resources to enhance current programs such as GEAR UP, Upward Bound, and Running Start.

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. 2157 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,

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair