STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1362-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2837
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Labor and Public Employment and Finance,
to which was referred S.B. No. 2837, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to implement a comprehensive
system of educational accountability by:

     (1)  Holding students, schools, individual teachers and
          administrators, and other significant partners to the
          educational process accountable;

     (2)  Invoking reward, assistance, or sanctions as
          consequences for observed performance;

     (3)  Assessing state wide annual data on student, school,
          and system performance at selected benchmark grade
          levels in terms of student performance;

     (4)  Requiring teachers and administrators to engage in
          continuous professional growth and development;

     (5)  Establishing an explicit link between professional
          evaluation results and individual accountability for
          professional development; and


 
 
 
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     (6)  Exempting the implementation of the proposed
          comprehensive system of educational accountability from
          collective bargaining.

     The Department of Education, the Hawaii Chamber of Commerce,
the Hawaii Business Roundtable, and an individual testified in
support of this bill.  The Hawaii State Teachers Association and
the Hawaii Government Employees Association commented on this
bill.

     Your Committees find that the issues presented in this bill
will profoundly change the educational system in Hawaii.  As
such, more time is needed to ensure thorough discussion of the
issues.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by leaving the
effective date blank to ensure further discussion.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Labor and Public Employment and Finance that are
attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2837, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended
herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form
attached hereto as S.B. No. 2837, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Labor and Public
                                   Employment and Finance,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair          TERRY NUI YOSHINAGA, Chair