STAND. COM. REP. NO.446
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: H.B. No. 469
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. 469 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL PERSONNEL,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to provide the Department of Education (DOE) more flexibility in hiring by:
(1) Requiring that school principals and vice-principals meet DOE's certification requirements and have appropriate school level experience;
(2) Repealing the requirement that candidates must teach for at least five years before becoming a principal or vice-principal; and
(3) Providing that DOE may waive certification and school-level experience requirements on a case-by-case basis.
The Hawaii Business Roundtable supported this bill. DOE supported this bill with proposed amendments. The Hawaii Government Employees Association opposed this bill.
Your Committees find that this bill will allow DOE to hire the most qualified candidates for principal and vice-principal positions. Added discretion will also allow DOE to address personnel shortages more expeditiously.
Upon further consideration, your Committees have amended this bill by requiring principals to have three years of appropriate school-level experience.
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. 469, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 469, 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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