STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2199

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2860

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. 2860 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to provide additional teacher and educational assistant positions for junior kindergarten and kindergarten classes, and to conduct a longitudinal study to evaluate the junior kindergarten pilot program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the intent of this measure from the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that supporting the junior kindergarten pilot program is an important part of improving public early education.

Your Committee has amended this measure by including appropriation amounts, and 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. 2860, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2860, 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