STAND. COM. REP. NO.860
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: H.B. No. 469
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 469, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL PERSONNEL,"
begs 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 DOE principals to have three years of appropriate school-level experience as determined by DOE;
(2) Requiring DOE vice-principals to meet the DOE's certification requirements and have appropriate school-level experience as determined by DOE; and
(3) Allowing DOE to waive certification and experience requirements for vice-principals candidates on a case-by-case basis.
The Hawaii Business Roundtable submitted testimony in support of this bill. DOE submitted testimony in support of this bill with a suggested amendment. Hawaii Government Emoployees Association submitted testimony in opposition to this bill.
Your Committee has amended this bill by requiring DOE principals to have not less than five years of school-level experience of which at least three years are as a teacher.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 469, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 469, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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