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. 2366

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2120

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Education and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2120 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 measure is to require the Department of Education to establish alternative routes to certification for school principals and vice-principals and to repeal the Department's authority to waive, on a case-by-case basis, certain teacher certification and school-level experience requirements for vice-principal candidates.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one state agency.  Comments were submitted by one private organization.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that determining alternative routes to certification furthers the Department of Education's efforts to meet requirements to receive funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and implement reforms outlined in its application for federal Race to the Top funds.  Your Committee notes that the intent of this measure in requiring the Department to establish alternative routes to certification is for the certification requirements to align with the Profile of the Effective School Leader document, which sets standards for principals and vice-principals in the Department.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2120, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2120, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

		____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair