Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2014, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow a nonprofit organization to manage and operate a new century conversion charter school as a division of the nonprofit organization, in which the charter school's local school board would consist of the board of directors of the nonprofit organization.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Education, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, two Maui City Council members, Kamehameha Schools, Hawaii Association of Independent Schools, Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, Hawaii Association of Realtors, Hawaii Business Roundtable, University of Hawaii Curriculum Research and Development Group, and a private individual. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to the measure from the Hawaii Government Employees Association, Hawaii State Teachers Association, and a private individual. Your Committee received comments from the Hawaii Educational Policy Center.

Your Committee has amended the measure by replacing its contents with the contents of S. B. No. 2662, S.D. 2, which is substantially similar except in that it caps charter school conversions at 25. Your Committee further amended the measure by providing an effective date of July 1, 2050, to ensure continued discussion on this important issue.

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 H.B. No. 2014, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2014, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.