STAND. COM. REP. NO.918
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.B. No. 667
S.D. 2
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 667, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to establish a new governance and administrative structure for Hawaii's public school system by:
(1) Creating a state board of education comprised of seven members elected from seven school board districts and six members appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate;
(2) Designating seven regional education agencies, governed by appointed boards of directors and administered by regional superintendents, to serve as the primary administrative units for the delivery of educational services;
(3) Requiring regional superintendents to establish principal advisory councils to solicit and receive input regarding regional administrative policies, procedures, and operations;
(4) Delineating the roles and responsibilities of the state board of education, the state superintendent, the regional education agencies, the governing boards, and regional superintendents; and
(5) Establishing school complex-based management within the regional education agencies.
Your Committee views this measure as a catalyst for promoting discussion and encouraging consensus building among stakeholders to address the many issues and challenges facing our public school system and to bring about positive and meaningful educational reform in Hawaii.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Clarifying that the salary of the superintendent of education shall be as provided in section 26-52(1), Hawaii Revised Statutes;
(2) Amending section 26-53(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to make existing statutory language that sets the salary of the deputy superintendent of education consistent with the proposed amendments to section 302A-1101(b)(4), Hawaii Revised Statutes; and
(3) Making other technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity and style.
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. 667, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 667, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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