STAND. COM. REP. NO.387
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: H.B. No. 1561
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Education and Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1561 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to support the operational transition from the current Hawaii School-to-Work Office to the career development system within the Department of Education's (DOE) comprehensive school support services program.
The Department of Human Services and several individuals testified in support of this bill. The Department of Education supported the intent of this bill.
Your Committees find that school-to-career initiatives are an important part of providing an educated and well-trained workforce in Hawaii. Federal moneys for school-to-career programs will cease on October 1, 2001. Therefore, the State will need to support its existing and developing programs in this area.
Upon further consideration, your Committees have amended this bill by:
(1) Including the Director of Career and Technical Education as a member of the interdepartmental/interagency partnership to help the transition to a systems approach for career development;
(2) Requiring the development and implementation of the Career Pathway Grant (Grant) process;
(3) Requiring the provision of technical assistance to awardees of the grants and to participating schools and agencies;
(4) Requiring the recruitment of business partners to participate in the Grant program;
(5) Requiring the coordination of professional development for project-based learning and the integration of academic and applied learning; and
(6) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor and Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1561, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1561, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Labor and Public Employment,
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____________________________ TERRY NUI YOSHINAGA, Chair |
____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair |
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