Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2426, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish the Center for School Redesign as part of the College of Education at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

The bill also appropriates $250,000 to establish the Center, and requires the Center to convene an advisory committee to assist the Center in fulfilling its purpose.

Your Committee finds that educational research shows that smaller schools contribute to student achievement. This is an opportunity to develop a school design based on research, best practice, data, and collaborative planning efforts that include participation by the Department of Education and community organizations.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriated amount from $250,000 to an unspecified amount, and by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050 to facilitate further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2426, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2426, S.D. 2.