STAND. COM. REP. NO. 289

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1269
                                        S.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 S.B. No. 1269 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR
     EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to provide $11,100,000 for an
additional 283 permanent positions and operating funds to the
Department of Education for fiscal year 1998-1999.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Department of Education and the Hawaii State Teachers
Association.

     Your Committee agrees with the Department of Education's
testimony that the requirements of the Felix Consent Decree must
be fulfilled without the reduction or discontinuation of other
essential services to students.  However, in this measure for
additional moneys, your Committee believes that the Department of
Education has allocated funds to operating and equipment costs
that could be better spent on direct services to students.  

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure to
remove the funds allocated to EDN 200, 300, 400, and 500 for the
purposes of operating costs and equipment expenses, and have
added this difference to EDN 100.  Your Committee believes that
this will not only allow the Department of Education to fund the
requested additional positions required by the Felix Consent

 
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Decree, but will also reroute funds intended for administrative
and equipment costs to direct services to students via the
increased funding of EDN 100.

     It has long been the intent of the Legislature to support
EDN 100 programs and direct services to students, while reducing
any unnecessary administrative expenses.  Because the education
of Hawaii's youth is a high priority to the State, your Committee
notes that the total amount of funding has not been changed, as
your Committee has only amended the distribution of the allocated
moneys.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education and Technology that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 1269, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1269,
S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   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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