Bill Text: HI HCR166 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Education; Memorandum of Agreement; Aha Kauleo Kaiapuni Hawaii

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-03 - (H) Report adopted. referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Cabanilla, Carroll, Mizuno, Thielen excused (4). [HCR166 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HCR166-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1475-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.C.R. No. 166

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 166, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND BOARD OF EDUCATION TO FORMALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ‘AHA KAULEO KAIAPUNI HAWAI‘I AND TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT AND IMPLEMENT THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF ‘AHA KAULEO KAIAPUNI HAWAI‘I ON MATTERS RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to improve educational delivery in the Hawaiian Language Immersion Program by requesting the Department of Education and the Board of Education to formally acknowledge ‘Aha Kauleo Kaiapuni Hawai‘i, the Hawaiian Language Immersion Advisory Council, and to continue to support and implement its recommendations.

 

     The Department of Education supported the intent of this measure.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to remove language referring to translated assessment issues in line with the measure's current focus.

 

     Additional technical, nonsubstantive amendments were made for clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 166, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 166, H.D. 2.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

 

 

		____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair