STAND. COM. REP. NO. 427

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1619
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No.
1619 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL
     ALIENATION PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to establish
seven teacher positions in the central district of the Department
of Education for the Comprehensive School Alienation Program.

     Furthermore, this measure requires these funds to be
appropriated and allotted to the Department and expended by the
Wahiawa Community School for Adults.

     Your Committee finds that the program is experiencing an
increasing need to provide services for family, peer, drug,
mental health problems, as well as academics.  Losing personnel
at a time when more students are experiencing problems or are in
crisis situations will be disastrous.  The risks of students
terminating their education without graduating will dramatically
increase.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.

 
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1619 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred
to the Committee on Finance.
                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Education,



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                                   KEN ITO, Chair

 
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