STAND. COM. REP. NO. 294-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2385
                                     




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.
2385 entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR RESOURCES FOR
     EARLY ACCESS TO LEARNING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the
Resources for Early Access to Learning Program (Families for
R.E.A.L.).

     The program is based on Minnesota's Family Education Model
and has proven to positively influence children's academic
achievement by empowering parents as their young children's first
teachers, rather than relying upon public school instruction in
the lower grades.

     The bill appropriates funds for personnel and supplies on
four sites in the Honolulu, central Oahu, Kauai, and Hawaii
departmental school districts.

     Your Committee received testimonies from the Department of
Education, the Kauai Community School for Adults, the principal
of Kapunahala Elementary School, the Hawaii Community Education
Association, and other concerned parents, teachers, and students
in support of the bill.


 
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     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.
2385 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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