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. 2325

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2431

       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. 2431 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to implement a comprehensive system of educational accountability for the purpose of improving performance of students and of the educational system. 

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Governor. Testimony in opposition to this measure was received from one state agency and one private organization.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will increase accountability for the State's public education system.  Your Committee further finds that longitudinal data will help teachers in assessing and planning classroom curriculum.  Your Committee notes that data collection is a major initiative of the United States Department of Education and will likely be a requirement of upcoming federal law. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its contents and replacing them with a new section requiring 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 in section 302A-1004, Hawaii Revised Statutes. 

 

     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. 2431, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2431, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

		____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair