STAND. COM. REP. NO. 387

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 743
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Technology and Health and
Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 743 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AN EARLY
     CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER,"

beg leave to report as follows:
     
     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to
convert Linapuni school to an early childhood development and
education center for infants and children up to four years of
age.

     Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this
measure from the Department of Education, Linapuni School, Good
Beginnings Alliance, the Hawaii Association for the Education of
Young Children, KCAA Pre-Schools of Hawaii, Hawaii State Teachers
Association, Information Services, and four individuals.

     Your Committees find that all those who testified strongly
supported more facilities for early childhood education, but felt
that Linapuni School was an exemplary model of an elementary
school for kindergarten through grade two.  Your Committees
further find that the intent of this measure could be
accomplished by developing a new early childhood education
center, with the support of the many partnerships already formed
at Linapuni School.

     Your Committees have amended this measure accordingly to
delete all references to Linapuni School, and instead authorize

 
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development of an early childhood development and education
center for infants and children up to four years of age in the
Kalihi area of Honolulu.  In developing this center, the
department of education shall draw on the partnerships already
developed between Farrington high school, the University of
Hawai`i college of education, VISTA tutors, partners from the
community, private businesses, organizations, foundations, and
parents.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Education and Technology and Health and Human
Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in
accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 743, as amended
herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form
attached hereto as S.B. No. 743, S.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Education and
                                   Technology and Health and
                                   Human Services,



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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair        DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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