STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1801

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.C.R. No. 7
                                        H.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education and Technology, to which was
referred H.C.R. No. 7, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
     AND THE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION TO RESTRUCTURE THE
     DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ENSURE ACCOUNTABILITY AT ALL
     LEVELS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to urge the Board of
Education and the Superintendent of Education to restructure the
Department of Education to ensure accountability at all levels
and to allow for greater decision-making authority in the
individual schools.

     Your Committee finds that Hawaii's public education system
needs improvement.  Currently, it is impossible to determine
which entities within the Department of Education are fulfilling
their responsibilities and which are not.  By restructuring the
Department of Education to ensure accountability at all levels,
authority and resources will be directly linked to
responsibility, clear lines of responsibility and mutual
obligation will be defined, and appropriate consequences in the
form of rewards and sanctions will be invoked for observed
performance.  As a result, all parties involved will be further
motivated to improve Hawaii's public education system.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education and Technology that is attached to this

 
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report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of
H.C.R. No. 7, H.D. 1, and recommends its adoption.

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



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                                   DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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