STAND. COM. REP. NO.  127

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 184

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 184 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEACHER EDUCATION COORDINATING COMMITTEE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to support the Teacher Education Coordinating Committee (TECC) in its work to strengthen the efforts of all teacher education institutions in Hawaii to prepare quality teachers for Hawaii's public schools.  Specifically, this bill changes the membership of the TECC by, among other things, including a representative from each accredited state-approved teacher education program.

 

     The Department of Education, Hawaii Teacher Standards Board, and University of Hawaii College of Education testified in support of this bill.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing "teacher education program" to "teacher education unit" to afford all units with state-approved teacher education programs representation on the TECC; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 184, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 184, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair		____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair