STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1329

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.C.R. No. 180
                                        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.C.R. No. 180 entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF
     EDUCATION AND THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII TO REPORT ON PLANS
     FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF MARINE EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of
Education and the University of Hawaii to submit separate reports
on their plans for the improvement of marine education.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Department of Education, the Waikiki Aquarium, and two concerned
individuals.

     Your Committee finds that marine and aquatic education is an
important component of environmental education, with the primary
focus being the interactions and processes surrounding the nature
of the marine and aquatic environments.  Your Committee believes
that it is essential that marine education be supported to the
fullest extent in this island state.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to add an additional
requirement that the Department of Education and the University
of Hawaii work together to develop a strategy to teach
discipline-based information as the knowledge bridge for the
solution of problems within the context of marine environment and
its resources.  As amended, this measure will require that the

 
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findings of this collaboration be included in the respective
reports submitted to the Legislature.

     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 concurs with the intent and purpose of
S.C.R. No. 180, as amended herein, and recommends that it be
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached
hereto as S.C.R. No. 180, S.D. 1.

                                   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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