STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2499

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2830
                                        




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. 2830 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT OF SCHOOL
     PRINCIPALS AND VICE PRINCIPALS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require school vice
principals to meet the same certification and experiential
requirements as principals to obtain administrator positions in
Hawaii's public schools.

     Additionally, this measure deletes the requirement that
principals must first teach or serve as an exchange principal in
Hawaii for one year.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Education.  Testimony in opposition to the measure
was received from HGEA-AFSCME.

     Your Committee finds that currently, in order to obtain
administrator positions in Hawaii's public schools, principals
and acting principals must:  (1) meet the Department of
Education's certification requirements; and (2) have served as a
teacher for at least five years, including one year as a teacher
or exchange principal in Hawaii.

     Your Committee agrees that eliminating the one year
requirement in Hawaii schools, for principals and vice principals

 
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seeking administrator positions in Hawaii's public schools, will
address the current and anticipated shortage of certified
Department of Education school administrators.  In doing so, this
measure will also increase the Department's pool of qualified
public school principals and vice principals.

     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. 2830 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

                                   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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