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. 3040

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 120

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

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 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 and intent of this measure is to request the Board of Education and Department of Education to request a waiver of the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (No Child Left Behind) from the United States Department of Education.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education and IMUAlliance.

 

     Your Committee finds that despite improvements to student achievement levels, Hawaii, like most states, will not meet the grade level standards required under No Child Left Behind by 2014.  Your Committee further finds that ten out of the eleven states that have applied for a waiver of the requirements of No Child Left Behind have been granted relief by the United States Department of Education.

 

     Your Committee notes that the Department of Education reported that it plans to submit a detailed request for a waiver of the requirements of No Child Left Behind, along with its plan for attaining high student outcomes, to the United States Department of Education in September 2012.

 

     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 and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

		____________________________ JILL TOKUDA, Chair