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                                   STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3013

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1874
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Technology and Labor and
Environment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1874, H.D. 1,
entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to improve accountability for
educational resources by establishing an interagency educational
accountability working group to review agency administrative
rules, policies, procedures, and practices, and temporarily
suspend these, to allow the Department of Education to
restructure and reallocate its resources to support student
achievement.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Education, Department of Accounting and General
Services, HSTA, The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, and Hawaii
Business Roundtable.  HGEA-AFSCME provided testimony in
opposition to the measure.

     Your Committees find that the Board of Education (BOE) and
Superintendent of Education are most responsible for the success
of Hawaii's public education system and should be held
accountable for educational outcomes in this State.  However,
because Hawaii maintains a statewide public school system,
responsibility for various support functions for Hawaii's public

 
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education system are assigned to a number of state agencies, who
have competing goals and objectives.

     Your Committees agree that establishing an interagency
educational accountability working group to review agency
administrative rules, policies, procedures, and practices, and to
make recommendations to the BOE to temporarily suspend these,
will support improved accountability for educational resources in
this State.  However, your Committees are concerned that the
working group will be comprised of too many state agents and
requests that more stakeholders, such as parents and students, be
included in the working group.

     Your Committees amended the measure as follows:

     (1)  Subjecting the suspension of rules, policies,
          procedures, and practices to BOE approval;

     (2)  Requiring the working group to make recommendations on
          rules, policies, procedures, and practices to be
          suspended during the 2001-2003 fiscal biennium; and

     (3)  Requiring the working group to submit a report to the
          BOE regarding its recommendations.
 
     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Education and Technology and Labor and Environment
that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord
with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1874, H.D. 1, as amended
herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form
attached hereto as H.B. No. 1874, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred
to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Education and
                                   Technology and Labor and
                                   Environment,



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BOB NAKATA, Chair                  DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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