Bill Text: HI SCR78 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Education; Attendance

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-04 - (H) Referred to EDN, FIN, referral sheet 59 [SCR78 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SCR78-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3068

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 78

 

 

 

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. 78 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO REQUIRE EACH SCHOOL COMMUNITY COUNCIL TO REVIEW ITS SCHOOL'S ATTENDANCE POLICY, CREATE BENCHMARKS TO IMPROVE ATTENDANCE, AND DEVELOP AN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TO MEET THOSE BENCHMARKS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Board of Education to require each school community council to:

 

     (1)  Review its school's attendance policy;

 

     (2)  Create benchmarks to improve school attendance; and

 

     (3)  Develop an implementation plan to meet those benchmarks.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that student attendance is an essential component of high student achievement.  Your Committee further finds that school community councils should be the venue for establishing student attendance goals and supporting and promoting school attendance by all students.

 

     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. 78 and recommends its adoption.

 

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

 

		____________________________ JILL TOKUDA, Chair