STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1626

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.R. No. 9
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.R.
No. 9, S.D. 1, entitled:

     "SENATE 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 measure is to encourage public and
private schools to include music as a regular and integral part
of their core curriculum, and to encourage public schools to more
uniformly implement music education programs through the
development and utilization of content and performance standards.

     In addition, this measure requests the Department of
Education to:

     (1)  Collaborate with the Task Force on Music Education in
          Hawaii to ensure that the Hawaii Content and
          Performance Standards and each school will include for
          all students the essential musical experiences as
          described in "Music Education in Hawaii"; and

     (2)  Report to the Legislature on the compliance and
          progress of public schools and programs with respect to
          this measure no later than twenty days prior to the

 
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          convening of the Regular Session of 2000, and every
          three years thereafter.

     Your Committee finds that a people's ability to appreciate
music and the other fine arts is a reflection of that society's
capacity to peaceably tolerate, accept, and embrace humankind's
ethnic, religious, and political differences.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 9, S.D.
1, and recommends its adoption.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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