STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 863-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 3148

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 3148, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to enable the establishment of, and appropriate funds for, a Host Culture Charter School District (District) as a five-year pilot demonstration project in which the District shall:

(1) Qualify as a local educational agency for the purposes of receiving federal funding;

(2) Collaborate with, but not be directly supervised or controlled by, the Board of Education, the Department of Education (DOE), and the charter school executive director; and

(3) Be governed by a Host Culture District Council.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Hawaii Charter Schools Network, and numerous teachers, administrators, and students from charter schools and other individuals supported this bill. The Hawaii State Teachers Association supported the intent of this bill. DOE and the Hawaii Government Employees Association submitted comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.

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. 3148, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3148, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

		____________________________ ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair