Bill Text: HI SR61 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Education; Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004; Report

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2012-06-22 - (S) Certified copies of resolutions sent, 06-19-12. [SR61 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SR61-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3439

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.R. No. 61

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.R. No. 61, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO REVIEW AND EVALUATE COMPLIANCE WITH AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE REINVENTING EDUCATION ACT OF 2004, AS AMENDED,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Board of Education and the Department of Education to review and evaluate compliance with and effectiveness of the Reinventing Education Act of 2004. 

 

     Written comments in support of this measure were submitted by one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that the intent of Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, was to decentralize decision making at the Department of Education and empower complex- and school-level staff and administrators, as well as to encourage greater community involvement, and provide better professional development, enhanced technology, and other educational resources to the Department of Education.  More than seven years have passed since Act 51 was enacted.  Accordingly, your Committee believes that sufficient time has passed to allow for a review and evaluation of compliance with Act 51 and the effectiveness of Act 51 in achieving the State's educational goals.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 61, S.D. 1, and recommends its adoption.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair