STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2369

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2469
                                        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 S.B. No. 2469 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to transfer the
administration and supervision of the school-to-work
opportunities pilot project from the Hawaii school-to-work
opportunities executive council to the department of education
and to make the Hawaii school-to-work opportunities executive
council an advisory body to both the board of education and the
department of education.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received by the
Department of Education.  Testimony in opposition to the measure
was received by Hawai'i School-to-Work.

     Your Committee finds that the continued effort to sustain
the school-to-work system is a worthwhile investment for economic
and workforce development in this State.  Transferring
administration and supervision of the program to the Department
of Education will facilitate continued administration of the
school-to-work program, while ensuring that input is still
received from the advisory council.

     Your Committee notes that the federal grant used to
establish the school-to-work program ends in October 2000.  A
decision on a new administrative structure must be made in the

 
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2000 session.  Your Committee strongly encourages the Department
of Education and the advisory council to complete discussion on
the best placement for the program.  If the program is placed
with the Department of Education, the Department should be
required to provide continued support for the program.

     Your Committee made technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
clarity and style.

     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 S.B. No. 2469, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2469,
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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