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 S.B. No. 2069 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for a grant-in-aid to the Hawaii Educational Policy Center to prepare and distribute original research, reports, and summaries of existing research to help inform education policy in Hawaii.

Testimony supporting this measure was received from the Department of Education, University of Hawaii, and six individuals.

Your Committee finds that research on the educational policies, methods, and practices is a valuable resource for teachers, parents, and policy makers. The Hawaii Educational Policy Center, established by the Hawaii Institute for Educational Partnerships, is highly regarded in the education community for producing relevant educational research and reports to assist policy makers. Your Committee finds that their work provides substantial benefit to the public and the education profession and that this measure will assist in continuing to provide Hawaii's policy makers with relevant educational research.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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. 2069, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2069, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.