Bill Text: HI SB2120 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: School Principals and Vice-Principals; Alternative Routes to Certification

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-04-19 - (H) Act 034, on 4/19/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 246). [SB2120 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2120-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1156-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2120

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2120, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CERTIFICATION OF PRINCIPALS AND VICE-PRINCIPALS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to recruit visionary and effective school leaders by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the Department of Education (DOE) to establish alternative routes to certification for principals and vice-principals that meet the criteria set by the United States Department of Education for state applications for Race to the Top fund allocations under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; and

 

     (2)  Removing DOE's authority to waive the certification and school-level experience requirements for vice-principal candidates on a case-by-case basis.

 

     DOE and the Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO commented on this bill.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2120, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair