STAND. COM. REP. NO. 357-06
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2006
RE: H.B. No. 1862
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1862 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to help relieve the teacher shortage by allowing the Department of Education (DOE) to employ retired teachers to teach full-time in teacher shortage areas and serve as mentors for new classroom teachers.
The Hawaii Teacher Standards Board and Hawaii State Teachers Association testified in support of this bill. The Office of the Governor supported this measure with amendments. DOE supported the intent of this bill. The Employees' Retirement System offered comments.
Your Committees have amended this bill by:
(1) Mandating that retired teachers employed to teach in teacher shortage areas or who serve as mentors for new classroom teachers be licensed teachers;
(2) Allowing charter schools to employ retired licensed teachers for the purposes listed in paragraph (1);
(3) Requiring licensed teachers to be retired for at least one calendar year prior to reemployment to serve as a mentor; and
(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1862, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1862, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment,
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____________________________ KIRK CALDWELL, Chair |
____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair |
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