Bill Text: HI SB2431 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Educational Accountability; Schools; Education

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-03 - (H) Referred to EDN, FIN, referral sheet 36 [SB2431 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2431-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2596

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2431

       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. 2431, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to make information on the educational performance of public school students readily accessible.

 

Specifically, this measure requires the Department of Education to develop an internet-based publicly accessible system for reporting student test scores and other indices of the performance of students and the educational system according to the criteria specified by the Department's educational accountability system.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Department of Education.  The written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will allow the Department of Education to compare reported information for each school and easily track the progress of individual schools.  Your Committee believes that these measures will help the Department achieve greater educational accountability.

 

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to promote further discussion; and

 

     (2)  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. 2431, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2431, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair