Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3059, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to establish a model curriculum to meet the state performance standards under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

Your Committee finds that Hawaii's public school system does not have a standardized, statewide curriculum to meet its objectives and goals. Without a standardized curriculum, individual teachers, grade levels, and schools establish curriculum independently of one another. This practice could result in the same curriculum taught at different grade levels resulting in students learning the same lesson at each grade.

By requiring a model curriculum in public schools, this measure would ensure optimum academic efficiency in all grade levels to ensure that the performance standards required under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 are met.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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. 3059, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3059, S.D. 2.