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 Legislative Management, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 156 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Legislative Reference Bureau to study the implications of establishing local boards of education along county boundaries.

The Board of Education opposed this measure. The Legislative Reference Bureau commented on this measure.

Your Committees find that Hawaii is unique in having a statewide Board of Education. They recognize that this statewide system has worked well for Hawaii in the past--that recently great strides have been made in student achievement. Your Committees find that local county school boards of education is an issue that has been discussed at length and deserves a thorough study by the legislature.

Your Committees have amended this measure by deleting the second resolved clause because examining twenty-five largest school districts would have no meaningful comparison to Hawaii.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Legislative Management that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 156, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 156, H.D. 1.