Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2719 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to create a new chapter on charter school governance.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Governor, the Department of Human Resources Development, the Hawaii Government Employees Association, the University of Hawaii, the Ho`okako`o Corporation, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Department of Education, and an individual. Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by an individual.

Your Committee finds that sections of the law should be reorganized so that there is more clarity, continuity, and ease of reference to the statutes which govern charter schools.

Your Committee has amended this measure to clarify nonsubstative points.

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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2719, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2719, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.