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. 93 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this resolution is to request the Department of Education to develop ways to increase parental involvement on a school-by-school basis.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the resolution from the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that fostering parental involvement is a crucial means of improving student achievement. Your Committee further finds that this resolution is consistent with efforts already underway within the Department of Education to increase parental involvement in education, which allow each school to determine the group or committee that will do so.

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. 93 and recommends its adoption.