Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 247 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to add performance based incentives in contracts with education service providers for school restructuring under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of Education, Hawaii State Teachers Association, and eight individuals.

Your Committee finds that the National Conference of State Legislatures conducted a study of the effects of the No Child Left Behind Act (Act) to formulate a comprehensive set of recommendations to improve the Act. The study indicated that the Act created large inequities, and Hawaii in particular suffers due to its unique cultural, social, and geographical characteristics, and the structure of the Department of Education. Thus, your Committee has amended this measure by removing its focus on education service providers and replacing it with language that requests the Hawaii Educational Policy Center to review the report published by the Education Commission of the States.

Accordingly, the following amendments were included:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 247, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 247, S.D. 1.