REPORT TITLE:
Approp.; Adult Education


DESCRIPTION:
Making an appropriation for the expansion of adult education.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.390        
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO EDUCATION.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  America as a nation has made a commitment to
 
 2 provide free educational programs to those adult members of our
 
 3 community who need to earn a high school diploma, need assistance
 
 4 with basic skills, need to learn English, or need to acquire
 
 5 their American citizenship.  Community schools for adults provide
 
 6 hope and opportunity to adults who need access to continuous
 
 7 learning.  
 
 8      During the 1996-1997 school year, the department of
 
 9 education's eleven community schools for adults served 61,783
 
10 students in adult basic education/literacy,
 
11 naturalization/citizenship, and high school classes.  Over the
 
12 past three years, the community school for adults have awarded an
 
13 average of 3,684 adult high school diplomas each year.
 
14      The purpose of this Act is to provide funding to maintain
 
15 and expand the funding for staff and program needs for Hawaii's
 
16 department of education community schools for adults.
 
17      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
18 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so
 
19 much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 1999-2000, to
 

 
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 1 support the maintenance and expansion of staff and program needs
 
 2 for Hawaii's department of education community schools for
 
 3 adults.
 
 4      SECTION 3.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
 5 department of education for the purposes of this Act.
 
 6      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999.
 
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 8                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________