STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2117

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2703

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2703 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE TEACHER CADET PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to encourage and support high school students who want to make a career of teaching in Hawaii public schools.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Education, Leeward Community College, the Hawaii Alliance for Future Teachers, the University of Hawaii College of Education Alumni Association, the Teacher Education Program of Hawaii Pacific University, and twenty-one individuals associated with the Exploration in Education (Teacher Cadet) program.

Your Committee finds that the Teacher Cadet program was well-represented by its two student members and two program graduates who came to testify from Farrington High School, and that such programs make substantive investments in the future of Hawaii education.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2703, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2703, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education and Military Affairs,

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair