Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 1326 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Education to provide opportunities for students to develop progressive standards of competency in a second language.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Education. The Hawaii State Teachers Association submitted testimony in support of the intent of the measure.

Your Committee finds that the intent of the statutory provisions to ensure student competency in world languages reflects a recognition of the global relationships that our students need to be developing in order to succeed in the Twenty-first Century. Your Committee further finds that competency in world languages should remain a priority of our public school system to the extent practicable and in accordance with the Hawaii content and performance standards.

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. 1326, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1326, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.