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. 3004 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purposes of this measure are to:

(2) Abolish school/community-based management.

Your Committee received testimony in opposition to the measure from the Department of Education, Hawaii State Teachers Association, Hawaii Government Employees Association, and Hawaii Business Roundtable.

Your Committee finds that accountability remains an important educational reform initiative. Although the Department of Education is developing an accountability system in cooperation with the Legislature and other interested stakeholders, passing this measure on to the Committee on Ways and Means will provide an important means of both encouraging the department to continue developing its system expeditiously and establishing a forum of public discussion on this valuable concept.

Your Committee has amended the measure by deleting the sections that would have abolished school/community-based management.

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. 3004, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3004, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.