STAND. COM. REP. NO.985

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 530

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 530, S.D. 2, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide salary incentives to keep exemplary principals and vice-principals at the school level; and to encourage exemplary principals and vice-principals to accept long-term assignments to hard-to-staff schools, special needs schools, and schools with high teacher turnover.

The Department of Education commented on the measure and the HGEA supported the intent.

Your Committee finds that because of the shortage of principals and vice-principals, incentives are needed to keep them in the public school system. Further, we need to be able to encourage exemplary principals and vice-principals to take on the challenges of special needs schools and schools with high teacher turnovers.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation for fiscal year 2001-2002 to $1 and the appropriation for fiscal year 2002-2003 to $1 in:

(1) section 7;

(2) section 8;

(3) section 9; and

(4) section 12

This is to facilitate further discussion on this measure.

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. 530, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 530, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

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KEN ITO, Chair