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 H.B. No. 418, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure, as received by your Committee, is to authorize the hiring of 17.5 instructional faculty positions at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and an additional six instructional faculty positions at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, to provide teacher preparation at these campuses.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the University of Hawaii College of Education and the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds our State is faced with a critical shortage of public school teachers and administrators while the University of Hawaii has also suffered budget shortfalls resulting in reduced instructional faculty positions in the College of Education. Your Committee further finds that the College of Education has had to turn-away student applicants desiring to become teachers due to the shortage of faculty positions. Thus, your Committee agrees that it is critically important to restore these faculty positions at the College of Education, so that individuals who desire to enter the teaching profession and who choose to become educational administrators can be appropriately trained in Hawaii.

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 H.B. No. 418, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 418, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.