STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2938

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2391
                                        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 Committee on Education and Technology, to which was
referred H.B. No. 2391, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PARENT-
     COMMUNITY NETWORKING CENTERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for
parent-community networking centers (PCNC) throughout the State
in order to ensure that every public school has sufficient funds
for a PCNC program at the school building level.

     Additionally, this measure provides funds for more mature
PCNCs to expand into teacher-parent partnerships at the classroom
level.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Education and 217 individuals.  Oral testimony in
support of the measure was provided by two individuals.

     Your Committee finds that funding for establishing PCNCs at
the school building level is unequally distributed across the
State, with many schools having little or no PCNC funding.  In
addition, schools with PCNCs need to expand in order to
strengthen each classroom unit as a learning community to ensure
students' educational success.


 
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     Your Committee agrees that the PCNCs provide valuable
support in improving school-community relations.  Your Committee
has amended this measure to change blank appropriation amounts to
$2 for the purposes of further discussion, and to make a
technical, nonsubstantive amendment.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education and Technology that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 2391, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as
H.B. No. 2391, 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
                                   Committee on Education and
                                   Technology,



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                                   DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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