Bill Text: HI HCR109 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Board of Education; Hawaiian Language Immersion Program

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-28 - Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on EDN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Belatti, Ito, C. Lee, Tokioka excused (4). [HCR109 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HCR109-Amended.html

 

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1244

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.C.R. No. 109

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 109 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, AS PART OF ITS DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE HAWAIIAN STUDIES PROGRAM, TO CREATE A COALITION TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF DEVELOPING ASSESSMENTS REQUIRED BY THE NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT OF 2001 IN THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE FOR HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE IMMERSION STUDENTS TO MORE ACCURATELY MEASURE THEIR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Board of Education to create a coalition to address the issue of developing grade-specific assessments required by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 in the Hawaiian language for use by Hawaiian language immersion students to more accurately measure their academic achievement.

 

     Kamehameha Schools and an individual provided testimony in support of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 109 and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Education.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

 

 

____________________________

FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair

 

 

 

 

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