STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3563

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.C.R. No. 157
                                        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.C.R. No. 157 entitled: 

     "HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING AN ANALYSIS OF
     CURRENT AND COMPARATIVE PATTERNS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL
     FINANCING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to request the University of
Hawaii to conduct a comprehensive, current, and comparative
analysis of the State's ability to fund K-12 education.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
University of Hawaii and the Department of Education.

     Your Committee finds that recent statistics indicate that
funding for Hawaii's statewide public school system is not
adequate to prepare Hawaii's students to meet the challenges of
the future in this State.  Over the past six years, state and
district resources have been reduced 39 percent by position count
and 41 percent by fiscal allocation.  This severely diminished
the system's capacity to support schools in numerous
instructional and administrative areas.

     Your Committee agrees that it is necessary to review agency
funding and questions regarding the adequacy of funding for
public schools in order to establish a sound fiscal policy for
them.


 
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     Upon further consideration, your Committee amended the
measure by deleting the paragraph on per pupil expenditure.

     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 concurs with the intent and purpose of
H.C.R. No. 157, as amended herein, and recommends that it be
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached
hereto as H.C.R. No. 157, S.D. 1.

                                   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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