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.C.R. No. 132 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of Education to work in conjunction with the youth of the First Representative District and community agencies in the area to develop community-based youth programs.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Education, Hawaii Youth Services Network, and 16 staff and students from public schools in the First Representative District.

Your Committee finds that this measure views youth, not as problems to be addressed, but as resources and partners in our efforts to solve community problems. It respects the contributions youth can make to the planning, operation, and evaluation of community organizations. The outcomes are increased organizational efficiency and provision of better programs for youth, as well as the personal growth of youth and adults.

Your Committee has amended the measure by inserting language strongly encouraging the Department of Education to examine these efforts as a potential model for other public schools in the district and throughout the rest of the State.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 132, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 132, S.D. 1.