STAND. COM. REP. 2505
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: S.B. No. 2427
S.D. 1
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. 2427 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEACHERS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to establish teacher licensure reciprocity with other states' licensure and national board certification.
Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Education. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to the measure from the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board and Hawaii State Teachers Association.
Your Committee finds that establishing teacher licensure reciprocity with other states' licensure and national board certification could be an important component of teacher recruitment and thereby help alleviate the teacher shortage.
Your Committee has amended the measure by:
(1) Deleting provisions relating to licensure reciprocity, alternative routes to licensure, and national board certification; and
(2) Requiring the board to clearly state, using a means easily accessed and format easily interpreted by the general public, precisely which specific requirements a licensed teacher from out of state needs, on a state-by-state basis, to complete to be a licensed teacher in Hawaii.
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. 2427, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2427, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,
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____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair |
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