STAND. COM. REP. NO.1488
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.C.R. No. 30
S.D. 1
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.C.R. No. 30 entitled:
"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO DEVELOP AND DISTRIBUTE A SERIES OF PUBLICATIONS DESIGNED TO INFORM PARENTS AND GUARDIANS ABOUT WHAT THEIR CHILDREN ARE LEARNING IN LANGUAGE ARTS/READING, MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, AND SOCIAL STUDIES FROM KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE SIX,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of Education to develop and distribute informational publications about their children's educational programs.
The Department of Education (Department) testified that although it agrees with the measure's intent, it could not support it due to the indeterminate amount of human resources and fiscal requirements needed to accomplish the undertaking.
Your Committee finds that parental involvement in their child's educational program is one of the most important factors contributing to a student's achievement in school. Your Committee further finds that providing informational publications to parents about the standards and expectations for their child's educational progress in core subjects, would assist parents in gauging their own child's progress and thereby encourage increased participation by parents in their child's educational program.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the title to request the Department to review publications designed to inform parents about their children's educational programs, and to identify partners to obtain and distribute such publications;
(2) Changing the BE IT RESOLVED clause to request the Department to review the federal Department of Defense informational publications and those of other jurisdictions;
(3) Changing the first BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED clause to request the Department to identify partners who can assist in obtaining and distributing such publications to the families of Hawaii public school students;
(4) Changing the BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED clause that requests the Department to submit at least one publication to the 2004 Legislature to a request that the Department submit a report of findings and recommendations to the Legislature twenty days prior to the convening of the 2004 regular session;
(5) Adding that military representative to the Board of Education to receive a certified copy of the measure; and
(6) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity and style.
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. 30, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 30, S.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,
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____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair |