STAND. COM. REP. NO. 442-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2077
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No.
2077 entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the
Department of Education to provide:

     (1)  One full-time equivalent vice principal for every four
          hundred students enrolled at a school; and

     (2)  One full-time equivalent school security attendant
          position for every four hundred students enrolled at a
          school that qualifies for school security attendants.

     Increasing the number of vice principals and security
attendants will assist in creating a safer educational
environment where students can focus on learning.

     The Hawaii State Teachers Association, a high school
principal, and a student testified in support of the bill.  The
Superintendent of Education supported the intent of the bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.

 
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2077 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and 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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