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. 2805 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow home-schooled students to apply to participate in extracurricular and co-curricular activities.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Education (supports intent; concerned about costs and logistics of implementation) and the Senior Policy Advisor to the Governor. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to the measure from the Hawaii State Teachers Association and a student.

Your Committee finds the question as to whether home-schooled students should be allowed to participate in extracurricular and co-curricular activities is a valid one that deserves further attention. Although your Committee is passing the measure along to facilitate this discussion, your Committee further finds that some mechanism allowing for minimum academic qualifications as a prerequisite for participation in extracurricular and co-curricular activities is warranted, out of fairness to the expectations regular public school students must meet. What type of competency or performance standard this should be, however, should be the subject of further debate.

Your Committee made technical, nonsubstantive amendments 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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2805, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2805, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.