Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 1060 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for a grant-in-aid to Hui Malama Learning Center for alternative education programs.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Education, Mayor of Maui County, Department of Education Central Maui Complex Area Superintendent, two staff members and thirty-five students of Hui Malama Learning Center

Your Committee finds that the Hui Malama Learning Center makes an important and enduring difference in the lives of Maui's at-risk youth, especially those young men and women who have either been dismissed from school or who have dropped out. Hui Malama is an integral part of Maui's community fabric, offering a range of alternative education and counseling programs that include G.E.D. Prep, Pre-G.E.D., High School Foundations/Basic Education, Homeschool Enrichment, and Academic Tutorials for students suspended from public schools. If not for Hui Malama, many of these youth would have nowhere to go and few prospects for the future. For thirty years, Hui Malama has consistently produced highly successful outcomes that have resulted in young men and women turning their lives around and contributing positively to their families and community.

Your Committee has amended the 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. 1060, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1060, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.