Bill Text: HI SCR120 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Education; No Child Left Behind, Waiver

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-06-22 - (S) Certified copies of resolutions sent, 06-19-12. [SCR120 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SCR120-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1806-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.C.R. No. 120

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 120, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO APPLY TO THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR A WAIVER OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

The purpose of this measure is to request the Board of Education and the Department of Education to apply for a waiver of the No Child Left Behind requirements for 2014.

 

     This measure also requests the Board of Education and the Department of Education to update the Legislature on the status of the waiver application and conduct an informational briefing on the status of the waiver during the 2013 Regular Session.

 

     The IMUAlliance supported this measure. The Department of Education provided comments on this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 120, S.D. 1, and recommends its adoption.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair