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 S.B. No. 451 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a content oriented language arts program in the Department of Education.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association. The Department of Education and Hawaii State Teachers Association submitted comments.

Your Committee finds that new and innovative avenues for educational instruction are being developed daily. In order to progress with current educational innovations and keep our students competitive among their international peers, the Department of Education must be flexible in providing relevant curriculum that reflects changes in the increasingly globalized society.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the language enacting the content oriented language arts program to allow the department more freedom to develop its own types of research based curriculum.

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. 451, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 451, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.