Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.R. No. 6 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure as received is to request the Department of Education to implement a pilot project for the construction of new school facilities through public-private partnerships. For the purposes of receiving testimony and discussion in a public hearing your Committee circulated a proposed draft the purpose of which is to request the superintendent of education to conduct a study on the implementation of school/community-based management(SCBM) and alternative systems.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education. The Hawaii Government Employees Association and the Hawaii Business Roundtable submitted testimony which supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committee finds that the Board of Education and the Department are currently discussing the status of SCBM implementation statewide and whether SCBM is a viable means to foster school reform.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its contents and inserting a draft which requests the superintendent of education to conduct a study on the implementation of SCBM and alternative systems.

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 H.R. No. 6, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.R. No. 6, H.D. 1.