Bill Text: HI SCR94 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Education; Online Instruction Pilot Program

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-17 - (H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. [SCR94 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SCR94-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2656

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 94

       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.C.R. No. 94 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ESTABLISH A TWO-YEAR PILOT PROGRAM TO OFFER ONLINE INSTRUCTION TO MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of Education to establish a two-year pilot program to offer online instruction to middle and high school students in the public school system.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one state agency.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee received information through testimony that the Department of Education already offers online courses to high school and middle school students through various programs, including the E‑School, the University of Hawaii Online Learning Academy, and a July 2010 initiative to offer grade eight online instruction to students in a particular school complex.

 

     Upon consideration of the Department's ongoing efforts to expand opportunities for online instruction and information on the significant costs of expanding these opportunities, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing the language requesting the Department of Education to establish and report on a two-year pilot program for online instruction;

 

     (2)  Inserting language requesting the Department of Education to report to the Legislature the estimated costs of the existing Hawaii Virtual Learning Network, cost savings of online versus classroom instruction, costs of expanding the Network's programs or courses, the Network's impact on teachers and students, and measures of academic achievement of student participants in the Network;

 

     (3)  Amending the title of the measure to reflect the measure's amended purpose; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 94, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 94, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

		____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair