STAND. COM. REP. NO. 431

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 526
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Higher Education, to which
was referred H.B. No. 526 entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII
     INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $140,750, to the
University of Hawaii, for each fiscal year of the 1999-2001
biennium, for the operation of the Hawaii Institute for
Educational Partnerships.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this bill
from the Hawaii Institute for Educational Partnerships.

     Your Committees find that a center for teacher education was
established within the University of Hawaii on July 1, 1998,
pursuant to section 304-20.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes (formerly
section 30 of Act 272, Session Laws of Hawaii 1994), to create a
link between the public schools and university teacher education
programs to ensure that teacher education is focused on the needs
of the diverse student populations found within the public school
system.

     To date the operating costs of the Hawaii Institute for
Educational Partnerships have been paid with contributions from
the budgets of the University of Hawaii College of Education and

 
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the Department of Education.  Because of ongoing budget
restrictions, however, it is no longer possible for the
University of Hawaii and the Department of Education to pay for
the operating costs of the institute from their budgets.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committees on Education and Higher Education that is attached to
this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 526 and recommend that it pass Second Reading
and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on         Respectfully submitted on
behalf of the members of the      behalf of the members of the
Committee on Higher Education,    Committee on Education,



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DAVID MORIHARA, Chair              KEN ITO, Chair

 
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