Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 3020 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide funding for the staffing and facilities to ensure that the intent of the multi-track schooling approach does not result in lesser quality education for communities with high population growth.

Your Committees received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Education, Hawaii State Teachers Association, and Hawaii Government Employees Association.

Your Committees find that sufficient funding remains an issue for schools that implement multi-track schooling. A major component of this educational initiative is the fundamental belief that multi-track schools save the public educational system a substantial amount of revenue. If that is correct, some of those revenues should be transferred to the schools, which should not be left to struggle for funding for staffing and facilities.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3020 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.