STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3185

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.C.R. No. 206
                                        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.C.R. No. 206 entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING A MANAGEMENT AUDIT
     ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE INCREASED WORKLOADS OF SCHOOL
     PRINCIPALS ON THEIR ABILITY TO BE EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTIONAL
     LEADERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Auditor to
assess the impact of the increased workloads of school principals
on their ability to be effective instructional leaders.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Education, HGEA-AFSCME, and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that in recent years, the
noninstructional-related workload of public school principals has
steadily increased due to mandates of the Felix-Cayetano consent
decree and the reduction in administrative staff at the district
level, who attended to fiscal, facilities, and personnel matters.
Although former district level responsibilities were transferred
to the state level administration, the latter's own limited
resources required schools to perform the additional workload.
With multiple priorities of safety, security, facilities,
entrepreneurship and business management, and special needs,
school administrators are challenged to find time, energy, and
resources to be effective instructional leaders in the face of so
many competing, related duties.

 
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     Your Committee agrees that in order to resolve this workload
problem, a management audit is needed to clearly delineate
responsibilities of state, district, and school administration
levels.

     Upon further consideration your Committee amended this
measure by expanding the audit to include:

     (1)  In the title and in the BE IT RESOLVED paragraph, the
          impact of increased workloads on other administrators;
          and

     (2)  As delineated in the first BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED
          paragraph:

          (A)  An evaluation, in light of the additional workload
               of schools, of the current responsibilities of
               administrators in relationship to their expanded
               responsibilities; and

          (B)  Given the results in item (A), consideration of
               expanding responsibilities for future
               administrators.

     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
S.C.R. No. 206, as amended herein, and recommends that it be
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached
hereto as S.C.R. No. 206, 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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