Bill Text: HI SB2336 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public Schools; Non-Core Programs; School Openings and Closures

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-03 - (H) Referred to EDN, FIN, referral sheet 36 [SB2336 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2336-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2595

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2336

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2336, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require that all public schools, excluding charter schools and multi-track schools, offer a minimum of one hundred ninety instructional days per school year and thirty-six hours of instruction per school week.

 

     Your Committee conducted a public hearing on a proposed draft of this measure.  The purpose of the proposed draft is to:

 

     (1)  Require that the Department of Education periodically review all non-core programs and alternative funding mechanisms or sources for those non-core programs, and report to the Legislature its findings and recommendations for the possible elimination of some or all of those non-core programs; and

 

     (2)  Require that the Board of Education close an existing public school prior to opening a new school.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of the proposed draft from the Department of Education.  Written testimony may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that the proposed draft of the measure will improve the efficiency of the Department of Education by allowing the Department to focus on its core programs.  It will also focus the Department's resources on locations with the greatest need for school facilities.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with the contents of the proposed draft, and amending the proposed draft by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2336, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2336, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair