STAND. COM. REP. 468

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1021

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Higher Education and Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1021 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow the University of Hawaii (UH) Board of Regents to operate New Century Charter Schools that use Hawaiian as their primary language to establish the basis for a laboratory school program in the College of Hawaiian Language (College) at UH-Hilo.

Aha Punana Leo, Inc., Ke Kula o Samuel M. Kamakau Laboratory Public Charter School, Ke Kula O Kekaha Learning Center Public Charter School, Ke Kula O Nawahiokalaniopuu Iki Laboratory Public Charter School, and an individual submitted testimony in support of this bill. An individual submitted testimony in support of this bill with amendments. The Hawaii Government Employees Association submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill. The Hawaii State Teachers Association, Hawaii Education Policy Center, and two individuals submitted comments on this bill.

Your Committees find that this bill will further expand the charter school concept in Hawaii and provide another means to provide for the study of, and in, the Hawaiian language. The College is an excellent source of knowledge on the Hawaiian language and would serve as a good incubator for a laboratory school program using Hawaiian as its primary medium of education.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to facilitate further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1021, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1021, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

 

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair

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K. MARK TAKAI, Chair