STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1960

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.C.R. No. 28
                                     S.D. 1




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 S.C.R.
No. 28, S.D. 1, entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ENCOURAGING ALL SCHOOLS IN
     HAWAII TO INCLUDE MUSIC AS A REGULAR AND INTEGRAL PART OF
     THEIR CORE CURRICULUM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this Concurrent Resolution is to encourage
all schools in Hawaii to include music as a regular and integral
part of their core curriculum.

     In addition, this Concurrent Resolution requests the
Department of Education to collaborate with the Task Force on
Music Education in Hawaii to ensure that music education is
incorporated into Hawaii content and performance standards and
each school in Hawaii.  The department is also requested to
report to the Legislature on compliance and progress of the
state-operated schools and programs before the convening of the
Regular Session of 2000, and to continue this process at three-
year intervals.

     Your Committee received testimony in favor of this measure
from the Superintendent of Education.

     Your Committee finds that music education should be a
required subject in all schools in the State.  Recent research

 
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has provided conclusive evidence that education in music can have
a significant and positive impact on the development of the brain
and intelligence.  Nevertheless, your Committee finds that there
are inconsistencies in the implementation of music education
programs in the public schools of Hawaii.  Your Committee finds
that the implementation of this Concurrent Resolution will help
to reduce problems of inequality in the provision of music
education by providing for the inclusion of music as an integral
part of the core curriculum in each of Hawaii's schools.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your
Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 28,
S.D. 1, and recommends that it 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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