Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 1213, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to develop and establish professional development schools in Hawaii public schools to provide professional training for preservice teachers.

The Office of the Lieutenant Governor, the Department of Education, Hawaii Association of Independent Schools, HSTA, and the Dean of the College of Education at the University of Hawaii supported this measure.

Your Committee recognizes that professional development schools are necessary to train teachers to become more effective in the classroom. It recognizes that students enrolled in these schools where teachers have been trained in professional development perform better in basic subjects and receive more hours of adult attention. The schools district benefits because professional development schools reduce recruiting costs and professional development needs.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriations in both fiscal years to $1 to further facilitate discussion. The measure was also amended to reflect that grants may be awarded for up to a five year period and may be renewable. Nonsubstantive technical changes were also made to help clarify the measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1213, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1213, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.