STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2370

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2838

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. 2838 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL ALIENATION PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the comprehensive school alienation program.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Education, the Hawaii State Teachers Association, and eight individuals.

Your Committee finds that the comprehensive school alienation program plays an important role in Hawaii's secondary schools and many students have made significant social and academic gains thanks to the smaller class environment that the program provides. Your Committee also recognizes that it takes a certain individual with special skills to help Hawaii's high-risk students realize success in their lives.

Your Committee has amended this measure to eliminate the requirement that funds be used to fund an additional 163.5 FTE secondary school positions.

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. 2838, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2838, 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