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. 584, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow the Department of Education to hire former teachers, principals, and vice-principals who have been retired from state service for not less than two years for hard-to-fill positions. This bill also provides for allowing incentive packages for classroom teachers and administrators.

The HGEA supported this bill. The Department of Education supported the intent.

Your Committee recognizes the need for qualified teachers and administrators in the public school system. It also recognizes that the state needs different ways of addressing the recruitment and retention of qualified teachers and administrators. Your Committee believes that this bill helps to address this problem.

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. 584, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.